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Decide what to chase among overdue Teamwork.com tasks
For project managers who want overdue Teamwork.com tasks ranked with a next step for each by asking their AI assistant.
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Connector
Connect Teamwork.com, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
A pile of overdue tasks and no idea what to chase
Overdue tasks pile up in Teamwork.com, and the list does not say which matter, who owns them or which are actually finished. Going through them one by one to decide what to chase takes longer than the chasing.
Without PopdockAI
- Filter overdue tasks across projects
- Look up who owns each one
- Judge priority and progress task by task
- Chase the wrong things first
With PopdockAI
- Overdue open tasks are read with names on assignees and projects
- Tasks are ranked by priority, then days overdue
- Unassigned and high-priority counts are shown
- Each of the top ten gets a next step, and none is carried out
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Triage overdue Teamwork tasks, scoped to the project matching {project-name} and the person matching {assignee-name} when those are given (all projects and all people when blank).
**Step 1: Resolve the scope**
* When {project-name} is given: call `teamwork-get-projects` with `name.contains` set to it. If more than one project matches, list them and stop. Keep the `project-id`.
* When {assignee-name} is given: call `teamwork-get-people` with `name.contains` set to it. If more than one person matches, list them with `email` and `company-name` and stop. Keep the `person-id`.
**Step 2: Pull the overdue tasks**
Call `teamwork-get-tasks` with `due-date.to` set to yesterday and `max-records` 200, adding `project-id` and `assignee-user-ids.contains` (the person-id) when scoped. Drop any task with a `completed-at` value or a `status` of completed.
**Step 3: Put names on the ids**
* Collect the distinct ids in `assignee-user-ids` and resolve each with `teamwork-get-people` filtered by `person-id`.
* When the scope is not a single project, resolve each distinct `project-id` with `teamwork-get-projects` filtered by `project-id`.
**Step 4: Rank**
Sort by `priority` (high, medium, low, none), then by days overdue, most overdue first.
**Step 5: Report**
* A summary line: total overdue, how many are high priority, how many have no assignee.
* A count of overdue tasks per assignee, largest first.
* A table of the top 20: task, project, assignees, due date, days overdue, priority, `progress`.
* For each of the top 10, one recommendation: chase the assignee, find an owner (no assignee), re-date it (well past due with low progress), or close it if it looks finished (progress 100).
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* This prompt is read-only. Do not call any tool whose name begins with teamwork-create-, teamwork-update-, teamwork-complete-, teamwork-uncomplete-, teamwork-assign-, teamwork-move-, teamwork-copy-, teamwork-clone-, teamwork-reorder-, teamwork-archive-, teamwork-unarchive-, teamwork-lock- or teamwork-unlock-, and do not call `teamwork-get-file-shared-link`.
* Recommendations are advice for the user. Do not carry any of them out.
* When 200 tasks come back, say the list may be truncated and suggest narrowing by project or person.
**Validation:**
* When nothing is overdue, say so plainly and stop.
* When a person or project name matches nothing, say so and stop rather than widening the scope silently.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Project managers
Know what to chase first
Get overdue tasks ranked by priority and age, with a recommendation to chase, reassign, re-date or close.
What overdue Teamwork.com tasks on the Contoso rollout should I chase first?
Team leads
See who has the most overdue work
Overdue tasks per assignee show where help is needed, and unassigned tasks are counted so they get an owner.
Triage overdue Teamwork.com tasks assigned to my design team and show counts per person.
PMO analysts
Clean up tasks that look finished
Tasks that look done but were never closed are flagged, so the overdue count reflects real work.
Across all Teamwork.com projects, which overdue tasks look finished and could be closed?
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You can narrow to a project or person, and your AI assistant ranks the overdue work in Teamwork.com. It recommends next steps but carries none of them out.
01
Ask
You optionally name a project or person.
02
Read
It reads overdue open tasks and puts names on assignees and projects.
03
Rank
It ranks tasks by priority, then days overdue.
04
Report
You get counts, the top 20 and a next step for the top ten.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for Teamwork.com and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
teamwork-com-get-projects
teamwork-com-get-people
teamwork-com-get-tasks
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
A clear next step for every overdue task
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