When using project templates and to do's it would be great if only to do items were added for the current stage, then subsequent to do items were added as stages were completed.
This would limit the amount of To Do items that are active at any given time and save issues were things like "Send final invoice" are cluttering up a To Do list when a project has only just started.
The way I see this working would be:
1) Project template has 3 stages and 5 to do items in each stage.
Current: User adds to do items to a stage
Proposed: User can choose if to do items are created at project start or at stage start
2) Project is created from above template
Current: Studiometry adds all 15 to do items into our to do lists and we would have to filter them out by due date, project etc.
Proposed: The first 5 to do's from stage on are added to the to do lists
3) Employees finish the first 5 items completing stage 1
Current: Progress view moves to stage 2
Proposed: Progress view moves to stage 2 and the 5 to do items in this stage are added to the to do's for the project
4) Employees finish the next 5 items completing stage 2
Current: Progress view moves to stage 3
Proposed: Progress view moves to stage 3 and the 5 to do items in this stage are added to the to do's for the project