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Module: Settings › Apps · URL: /settings/tasks · Responsible role: Owner (organization admin) · Also used by: anyone holding tasks.update can open and save it; ordinary staff cannot

Tasks — Tasks settings: Default priority Medium, Due in (days) 0 and a Save changes button

Screenshot: Rachel Whitman (Executive Director, org owner), Nocthink Demo Institute demo data.

Why I use this page

As Owner I use this page to set the priority and due date a new task starts with, so tasks created in a hurry still land with sensible values. I set it once and change it only if teams complain that everything starts as Medium or that tasks get created with no deadline.

What's on the screen

  • Header — Tasks settings: "What a new task starts with. People creating a task can still change each field."
  • Priority row — Default priority drop-down: Low, Medium, High, Urgent.
  • Due date row — Due in (days) number field, "How far ahead a new task is due. Set 0 to leave the due date empty."
  • Save changes button, with a Saved tick on success or the server error on failure.

How I …

Change the default priority

  1. Open Settings › Apps › Tasks.
  2. Pick a value in Default priority.
  3. Click Save changes.

Give new tasks a default deadline

  1. In Due in (days), enter the number of days from today (for example 7 for one week).
  2. Click Save changes.
  3. Open Tasks › Task List and start a new task: the due date is pre-filled as today plus that many days.
  4. To go back to no default deadline, set 0 and save.

Access & permissions

  • The route requires tasks.update. docs/role.md §4.5 assigns Settings › Apps › Tasks to the Owner only; the staff baseline role has only tasks.view, so most people never see it.
  • Every member can read these values (they are form defaults); only tasks.update holders can save.

Caveats

  • Due in (days) accepts whole numbers from 0 to 365; the field clamps anything outside that range.
  • The due date is counted from the day the task form is opened, in the browser's local date.
  • Defaults only affect new tasks created through the task form; existing tasks are unchanged.
  • Leaving without saving discards changes.

Limitations

  • No defaults for assignee, project, status or reminders.
  • No per-project or per-team defaults; one setting for the whole organization.
  • Task List — the new task form uses these defaults.
  • Delegate — delegated tasks are created through the same form.
  • Tasks Dashboard — priority and due dates drive what shows as urgent or overdue.