Yes, wouldn't that be great! Scripts triggered by actions (I create a new 
item, it automatically sets the start date to "today" and the due date to 
the same as the nearest sibling...).

On Monday, 9 May 2022 at 22:38:04 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> I gotta' agree with Jeff...  Strong scripting abilities would be amazing!  
> And yes, it would take care of many future feature requests, because 
> advanced forum users could help people write custom scripts, add-ons, or 
> whatnot. 
>
> On Monday, May 9, 2022 at 10:40:36 AM UTC-7 imajeff wrote:
>
>> I see frequent suggestions which would be very practical if we first had 
>> the most important feature of all:
>> We need scripting!
>>
>> It is related to the suggestion MLO needs an API, and the bottom line is 
>> the longer you keep adding extra code to have more and more features, the 
>> more bloat, slow-down, and unnecessary complications I have to deal with 
>> even if I don't need any of those new features.
>> The more you keep changing in features without rewriting as an 
>> API-friendly and scriptable tool, the more wasteful work has been done for 
>> nothing because if you ever do finally make it all scriptable, those should 
>> now be done differently instead of integrated in the base application, so 
>> someone has to rewrite all of them to be reasonable.
>>
>> The advantage of scripting is more than one might think because any event 
>> can be a hook to run script in any context and once people can add features 
>> then everyone could have the same feature but not if they don't need that 
>> one. Then another could take the same feature idea and make it work better 
>> for different circumstances with less effort.
>>
>> The only problem with adding scripting or at least the API interface to 
>> allow scripting is if you don't properly implement to be efficient and 
>> capable but there should be many examples to learn from in opensource 
>> communities.
>>
>>

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