#773 Inherited and assigned mutually exclusive sub categories

[John Hutchinson]

I have a category with two mutually exclusive sub-categories:
A
A.1
A.2

I create a task T with category A.1. If I then create a sub-task of this task (say, T.1) with no explicit category, it inherits the category (as expected).

If I explicitly assign category A.2 to a sub-task T.2, it looks like T.2 has both A.1 and A.2 assigned (i.e. a filter on A.1 still shows T.2). Is this intended behavior? I would have expected mutually exclusive categories to be mutually exclusive whether inherited or assigned, so T.1 has gategory A.1, and T.2 has A.2

Frank replied: T2 is shown because it is a subtask of T, which belongs to A1. I guess it is a bug that Task Coach allows you to assign a subtask to a category that is mutual exclusive with a category assigned to the parent task. If you like, please open a bug report about this.

[Toumini]

Hi John,

I have try to do the same test, because A1 et A2 are form me priority
When i create T1 i haven't clearly visible the inherit (nothing is check)
When i create T2 i haven't clearly visible the inherit (nothing is check), but i assign A2
I see the same result that you ( T and T1 and T2), if i select A1 category
I guess it is a regression which seem important

My feedback Chris
Env :
Windows 7 Premium Editon (64bits)
PortableTask Coach 1.1.3 (ZIP version) official
Task Coach is in French (automatic system,by default)
Using about 760 tasks or subtasks (closed or not)

[Frank Niessink]

We could reproduce the bug you reported. We'll do our best to fix it as soon as possible.

Thanks, Task Coach development team

[Aaron Wolf]

I updated this as it is still a bug in the latest version. I don't know how it should be addressed though.

[Aaron Wolf]

Hi, it's many years later, and as I close this old ticket, I'm excited to tell you that https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach now has updated Python3 Task Coach codebase! Packages are available for some common Linux systems and we can add more.

We'd love to have you test the updated program

I went and moved this still-outstanding issue to https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach/issues/126

Cheers