Every task has create and target versions.
The versions are set when the task is initially created and their values are taken from their parent folder.
If the parent folder has no versions set to it, then the task versions will set to 'none'.
The task target version can be changed by the user in 2 ways:
1. Manually setting the target version field of the task.
2. Split the task parent (or one of the parent's parent) folder to a different version.
Once the task target version is changed the task is considered to be assigned to this version.
The version field is a free text field so you can write just anything you like in it however
we recommend putting world standard versioning labels like: 1.0.0 (Major, Minor and Revision).
Why would you like to put versions to your tasks?
Simply because InTask has a very nice 'Release Content Report' which will tell you exactly what is the content (completed tasks) of a certain product release (version).
Although it's possible to manually set each and every task target version field, we recommend changing the versions by splitting the parent folder.
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Splitting Project/Folder Version
When your product (project) or one of its modules (folders) are ready to be delivered to the market this is where you probably will want to split your product/module to the next target version. Splitting can be made in small steps like moving to the next minor release or in big steps like moving to the next major release or both. It is up to you to decide when you want to split your project.
To actually do the split, right click on the project node or one of its sub folders and choose 'properties...' a dialog will appear.
In this dialog, you can see the current and target version of the selected node.
To split to the next version, click the 'Split ver...' button.
In the dialog showed, fill in the 'new target ver' field. This is the point where you decide how to name your next version.
When finished, press the 'Set' button and you're done.
What actually happened when you did that was that the selected folder and all its opened tasks and all its child and child,
child folders and all their open tasks moved to the new version recursively.
Note: Only folders and tasks, which have the same version as the root folder, that started the split will change.
Otherwise, they will remain in their current version. This is important to understand when you split a folder and some tasks/sub folders in it doesn't change.
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