Hi Grant, thanks much for the additional features and details about them...I've experimented a bit with the new vtodo capabilities, and it seems to pay off to give attention to the supported scenarios. I will provide more feedback after I gain more ewxperience. Thanks, Andre
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:16:40 -0800, "Grant Baillie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So, this is a heads up that last Friday I checked in a fix for > reading and writing VTODOs (a.k.a. Tasks) in ICalendar, c.f. > > Bug 6848: Chandler should be able to read/write ICalendar VTODOs > > A couple of notes for those of you following along at home: > > - VTODO has a DUE property, which (shockingly) is the date/time the > task is due. As discussed on the design list a while back, I went > ahead and had the importer create an Event+Task item if there’s a > DUE, with the Event's start time set to the DUE value. If there’s no > DUE, we just go ahead and create an ordinary old Task. > > - In the case of VTODO, we are able to use the STATUS field (which is > allowed different values compared to VEVENT) to preserve Triage > Status. In the end, I thought I found a vaguely reasonable > interpretation of the ICalendar values: > > needs-action <==> NOW, with needsReply==True > in-process <==> NOW, with needsReply==False > cancelled <==> LATER > completed <==> DONE > > - There are some known bugs where Chandler won’t subscribe to .ics > URLs that contain only VTODOs (e.g. bugzilla). These currently don’t > work due to some HTTP problems (i.e. in zanshin), but I did double- > check that the new code could successfully import the contents of > those URLs. > > - Chandler doesn't round-trip VTODO properly: If we read a VTODO with > a DUE, we write out a VEVENT (i.e. the Event-ness of the Event+Task > in Chandler takes precedence when we choose what ICalendar to write). > This isn’t an insurmountable problem, but doing so right away would > break some existing Cosmo shares. I’ll probably wait till the current > “dual share” scheme in Chandler is gone till I fix it ... see Bug > > 8321 for details. > > Let me know if you have comments, questions etc etc, > --Grant _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
