Issues Lists

The issues list is designed to track issues as opposed to tasks. The difference can be hard to put your finger on because a task might involve dealing with different sorts of issues, and resolving issues might be a task. The main difference between the lists is that the issues list tracks two different items from a tasks list: Category and Add Related Issue.

Figure 8.3 shows the New Item page (referenced as NewForm.aspx in the URL), which looks very similar to the screen shown in Figure 8.2 for the tasks list. The only real difference is that an issue has a Category field and an Add Related Issue field, whereas the task item has the % Complete and Start Date fields.

Figure 8.3. Adding a new issue.

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