Re: [Webcollab-users] project cloning

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
"<bj>" wrote:

> 
> As a small non-profit, we have a core of about 8 projects that are very
> repetitive from year to year.  At the completion of our first year after
> implementing webcollab, I just started to clone projects for the upcoming
> year.  While sub-task completion dates get updated based on project
> end-date, status does not - they are all noted as 'done' with last year's
> completion dates.  Am I missing something or do I need to do this through
> mysql?  Would this be a possible future enhancement?
> 
> Thanks for any insights!
> 
> - bj

Hi bj,

Yes, having looked at the code, you are quite right.  The code is smart
enough to adjust all the deadline dates forward (or back), by the
amount specified.  However the task status fields are left as is, that
is just copied straight across.

I seem to remember it's a compromise design choice:  Which ever way
it's configured, not everyone will like it!

I think it would be reasonably straightforward for you to adjust the
code to make all cloned tasks as 'new'.  I can point you in that
direction if you wish.

Andrew