Creating task types

Before you start creating tasks for your users, you'll have to add task types to your account. Task types are categories that your tasks are sorted into. Tasks can only be added from certain pages in FarmQA based on the task type you're trying to add. Check out the article below to learn more about where tasks of certain types can be added in FarmQA as well as how to add task types to your account. 

Creating task types

Where to add tasks of each task category

Creating task types

Available from the: WEB APP

Permissions: ENTERPRISE ADMIN, AGRONOMIST

• Click on the Work icon, then go to the Task Types tab. 
• Click the blue Add button at the bottom of the screen to add a new task type (pictured below).

• Complete the following steps to setup your new task type (pictured below): 
  1. Give your new task type a Name.
  2. Use the Select task category dropdown menu to pick the type for your task. This should roughly match your task's name. 
  3. Use the Icon dropdown menu to select an icon to represent your task with. 
  4. Edit how your fields are Colored when you're coloring your fields by task status. 

• Click the Save icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen to save your new task type. 
• Repeat this process until you've added a task of each main category to your account (pictured below).

Where to add tasks of each task category

Tasks that are in certain categories can only be added from certain pages in FarmQA. Refer to the list below to find out where you need to be working at in FarmQA to add certain task types. 

Apply: Advice page

Deliver: Home page, Fields page, Mobile app

Harvest: Home page, Fields page, Mobile app

Plant: Home page, Fields page, Mobile app

Review: Submitted scouting report

Scout: Home page, Fields page, Mobile app

Soil sample: Home page, Fields page, Mobile app

Tillage: Home page, Fields page, Mobile app