Subtask does not inherit parent task's category

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#1009 Subtask does not inherit parent task's category

Status: closed

Owner: Frank Niessink

Labels: All platforms (377)

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Updated: 2026-01-20

Created: 2011-09-28

Creator: Robusta

Private: No

Taskcoach 1.2.27 @ Ubuntu

Example:
task A in category Cat
I am adding a subtask to A via either shift-ctrl-N shortcut, or mouse right click in Tasks viewer: create a subtask A.sub

task A.sub is created with empty category

In general this is okay when using tree mode, but in list mode this leads to impossibility of sorting (sub)tasks by category.
I believe, subtasks should inherit parent task's category(-ies).

Discussion

Robusta - 2011-09-28

TaskCoach.ini

TaskCoach.ini

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Roberto Penzo - 2011-09-28

Understood, but this leads to a question:
-when you drag-and-drop the A.sub to another parent, what should happen? Possibilities:
1-the task "sub" looses the Acategory and gains the newparent category
2-the task "sub" keeps the Acategory and gains also the newparent category (not so good...)
Point 1 leads to another consideration: the Acategory is not only manually set for this task, but also set by a drag-and-drop activity. So whenever you drag-and-drop a task you must well keep in mind that you will probably need to re-check the categories of the task, in order to eventually set again some of them.

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Frank Niessink - 2011-10-10

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Frank Niessink - 2011-10-10

A fix was made and checked into the source code repository of Task Coach. The fix will be part of the next release. You will get another notification when that release is available with the request to install the new release and confirm that your issue has indeed been fixed.

If you like, you can download a recent build from http://www.fraca7.net/TaskCoach-packages/latest_bugfixes.py to test the fix.

Because a fix has been made for this bug report, the priority of this report has been lowered to 1 and its resolution has been set to 'Fixed'. Please keep the status of the bug report 'Open' until the next release is available to prevent duplicate bug reports.

Thanks, Task Coach development team

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Frank Niessink - 2011-10-23

This bug should be fixed in the latest release of Task Coach. Can
you please install the latest release of Task Coach and confirm
that this bug has indeed been fixed?

Thanks, Task Coach development team

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Robusta - 2011-10-24

In 1.2.30 list view now displays parent category.
Thanks a lot!

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Frank Niessink - 2011-10-24

Thank you for taking the time to check the bug fix and reporting back to us.

Regards, Task Coach development team

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