Enhancement: subtask

[fvezzoli]

please consider to add the support to the sub task.

[dmfs]

We do. But it might take some time.

[untitaker]

Is there an iCalendar spec for this?

[dmfs]

Yes, see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.2.15
However, I'm not aware of any other CalDAV task client that supports it.

[dmfs]

Apparently KOrganizer and Rainlendar support subtasks and there is planned support for ownCloud. Thanks Tom for reporting these.

[hazzl]

Mirakel also has subtasks. Although their CalDAV support seems a bit sketchy.

[untitaker]

See https://github.com/bitfireAT/davdroid/issues/34 about Mirakel with CalDAV.

[dmfs]

We're already working on this feature. Today I made a few more changes in the task provider to add some required fields (not sure how I could forget to add the UID field to the tasks table).

I also started to add support to CalDAV-Sync. The same update will also add sync of categories, attachments, comments and maybe attendees. But first we have to make sure that all users use the latest task version, otherwise CalDAV-Sync will crash, because relations depend on the UID field.

[untitaker]

What should be done with the current subtasks this app has, the GitHub-like ones in the DESCRIPTION?

[dmfs]

We leave it as it is, like "sub-tasks lite". For many users it's already sufficient to have this "checklist style" sub-task support. This is much more lightweight than real sub-tasks, implementation-wise and UI-wise. Also it still kind of works with servers/clients that don't support real sub-tasks (i.e most clients & servers). For distinction we call it "checklist" instead of sub-tasks.

Keeping the checklist is still nice to have. I'm using this feature for my grocery lists. Real sub-tasks would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut for this purpose

Sub-task are much more heavy weighted. They can have due dates, start dates, descriptions, attachments and all the other task properties on their own. In many cases that's completely unnecessary.

Of course we still can improve the checklist. Managing them from the details view would be nice. Changing the order too. But these are separate issues.

[Nebucatnetzer]

Will this make it work with the owncloud app tasks?
Or should I open a new issue for that?

[untitaker]

@Nebucatnetzer are you talking about general compatibility or this particular feature?

[Nebucatnetzer]

I'm not quite sure actually. I just noticed that when I have a list of tasks it doesn't convert to the owncloud format. In owncloud the list appears like this:

Stuff to buy
[ ] carrots
[ ] milk
[ ] coffee

[untitaker]

Yeah, ownCloud doesn't seem to support any kind of subtask: owncloud/tasks#49

Currently you can edit the description field (e.g. replace the spaces between the brackets with an x), and it should sync just fine.

[Nebucatnetzer]

You can add list in owncloud. I don't know if that's new or in which way it is different however.
I tried it today for the first time.
https://www.2li.ch/owncloud/index.php/s/HOWWzPRGigCuVJP

[Nebucatnetzer]

Ah I think I found out how they do it.
It creates a new calendar.