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. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/8a456ace-448a-4883-98aa-ca00ba05df5fn%40googlegroups.com.
