> The feature "Start date without due date" (#F349) have been requested
> many times in this forum. I miss this feature every week at least once
> and I'm unhappy that it's not in discussion anymore.
I am working on this feature in this iteration.
Andrey.
On Sep 12, 3:38 pm, AndreasD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Rationale ---
> The feature "Start date without due date" (#F349) have been requested
> many times in this forum. I miss this feature every week at least once
> and I'm unhappy that it's not in discussion anymore.
>
> I will not list the benefits of this feature, as they are documented
> [1], [2], [3] and the usefulness is generally accepted.
>
> Yes, I've seen all the proposed workarounds. They do not more than the
> term says: they "work around" a flaw. For me it's simply not
> convenient to set up one (or even more) dummy actions and clicking
> them away - just to prevent that one action appears earlier than I
> need it.
>
> On the other hand I perfectly understand why Andrey hesitates to even
> consider a fix, as he explains in [4] it would "affect the internal
> architecture significantly". I know the horrors of changing the
> architecture of a complex software system.
>
> But if it is to difficult to *change* an action attribute, it is
> probably much easier to *add* one.
>
> --- Suggestion ---
> Expand the Task To-Do Visibility option with an expiration date field,
> labelled "Until" or similar.
>
> (((A)))
> If the task visibility option "Show task normally" is selected, the
> date field is disabled and ignored.
>
> (((B)))
> If the task visibility option "Hide the branch" or "Hide only this" is
> selected, the date field is active, and there are three cases:
> 1)
> Date is empty
> --> The task visibility works as it says in the selected option ("as
> before").
> 2)
> Date is in the future
> --> The task visibility works as it says in the selected option ("as
> before“).
> 3)
> Date is today's date or in the past
> --> The selected task visibility option is overridden by option "Show
> task normally"
>
> PS:
> To maintain consistency to the start/due date fields, the expiration
> date field could be supplemented with an optional time field.
>
> PPS:
> It is also discussible to have a validity time interval instead of an
> expiration date.
>
> --- Use ---
> To express that an action should/could not be done before a certain
> date, hide it until this date, and it will show up on the to-do lists
> in time.
>
> Best regards, Andreas
>
> [1]http://groups.google.de/group/myLifeOrganized/browse_thread/thread/1d...
> [2]http://groups.google.de/group/myLifeOrganized/browse_thread/thread/6c...
> [3]http://groups.google.de/group/myLifeOrganized/browse_thread/thread/88...
> [4]http://groups.google.de/group/myLifeOrganized/msg/681c900c70759e65
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