Re: [Php-calendar-discussion] Task management in the future?

[Gabriel H. <Ga...@ga...>]

On Wed, February 9, 2005 7:04 pm, Sean Proctor said:
> Hello,
>
>
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:41:51 -0800, Nathan Barham <na...@sl...>
> wrote:
>> Are there any plans to add task management features to php-calendar in
>> the future?
>
> No, but I guess we can change that. I'm not sure what you mean by tasks.
>
>> I'm thinking of something simple where tasks are tracked in a table much
>> like the events are now, with a few added fields for say status, owner,
>> and any notes related to the task.
>
> I'm unclear on the difference between a task and an event. The plans
> for the next version include a kind of labeling. Where you could add a
> label to an event. Just now I thought of adding comments to events, so
> I put that on the todo list. If you use labels for status and comments
> or the description for your notes, the only thing you're missing is
> the owner. Events kind of have an owner now, but that is just the
> person who created the event.
>
> It seems to me like tasks are just a more specific version of events.
> I'm trying to not add very specific features to the calendar that only
> impact one set of users. If I can add the functionality you need in a
> general way, then I'll do it.
>

I'm not exactly sure what Nathan means but what I would find useful is a
task list. For example maybe an event that is not assigned a date and a
list of all these event types to the left of the calendar.

Gabriel