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

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

On Wed, February 9, 2005 9:51 pm, Nathan Barham said:
> Sean Proctor wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'm thinking of tasks as todo items, where each item has a due date, and
> a status of "completed" or "not completed", that could be scheduled just
> like events, but that would carry forward and be dispalyed on the
> current day (or otherwise remind you) if the due date is in the past and
> the status is not yet "complete".  I suppose the main difference from
> events as I understand them is the notion of status, and that an
> incomplete status would cause the task to somehow jump out at you once
> you have moved past the due date.
>
> I would still want to schedule them in the same manner as events,
> especially retaining the ability to schedule them in a recurring manner,
> i.e. weekly, monthly etc..  Basically this is what Outlook allows you to
> do with tasks.
>
> Examples:
>
> Send client John Smith a check on the 15th of every month (recurring
> every month)
>
> or ..
>
> Call client John Smith on the 17th (one time task)
>
>
>> 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.
>
> Actually I suppose owner would not be that important, assuming I could
> make separate calendars for different purposes.  What's still missing is
> some way to be reminded if a task is late in being completed, i.e late
> tasks showing up on today's date in the calendar, or just a pop up on
> login that said "Hey all this stuff is late!".
>
>> 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.
>
> Understood.  I was just wondering if php-calendar was going to head in
> this direction.  I want to get users away from Outlook, but I don't
> necessarily need all the project management stuff, complexity, learning
> curve etc that comes with some of the other open source solutions out
> there.
>
>  >  If I can add the functionality you need in a
>  > general way, then I'll do it.
>

Brilliant idea!