Add dashboard widget

[raimund-schluessler]

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[ei8fdb]

Hi, is there any contribution needed to work on this?

[raimund-schluessler]

@ei8fdb Contributions are always welcome and so far no one has picked up this issue.

[ei8fdb]

Hi @raimund-schluessler - I'm afraid my dev skills would not be sufficient. Would it help to have some design input?

[csolisr]

I'll be having vacations for the next pair of weeks, but I don't know if I'll have enough free time. At least I can post a few pointers from other widgets already implemented for Nextcloud, so somebody else can use them as a template to start hooking. From what I've gathered we would need to add four changes:

• Create the widget proper on lib/Dashboard/TasksWidget.php, using ImportantMailWidget.php as a template
• Create the dashboard view on src/components/Dashboard.vue, using Dashboard.vue as a template
• Add an event listener on lib/Listener/DashboardPanelListener.php, using DashboardPanelListener.php as a template
• Register the widget to the main application on lib/AppInfo/Application.php:

use OCA\Tasks\Dashboard\TasksWidget;
public function __construct(array $params=[]) {
    parent::__construct('tasks', $params);
}
$context->registerDashboardWidget(TasksWidget::class);

[tm9k1]

has someone started working on this yet? I'd like to give it a go..

[csolisr]

has someone started working on this yet? I'd like to give it a go..

Not yet to be honest, and I've been really busy but go ahead, I think you can use the guide I found above to start guiding yourself. Thanks in advance!

[raimund-schluessler]

has someone started working on this yet? I'd like to give it a go..

I think it's worth checking out how the Calendar app does it: https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/blob/master/src/dashboard.js

After all, we want to do the same as the Calendar app widget, just showing VTODOs instead of VEVENTs.

[raimund-schluessler]

We have started to implement this now in #1641. The widget does not do anything meaningful yet, but the infrastructure for showing it is done. Contributions are welcome.

[raimund-schluessler]

Please have a look at #1641 (comment) if you want to help testing this feature.

[ei8fdb]

Please have a look at #1641 (comment) if you want to help testing this feature.

Do you want testing comments in this issue, or in the PR? Or somewhere else?

[raimund-schluessler]

Please have a look at #1641 (comment) if you want to help testing this feature.

Do you want testing comments in this issue, or in the PR? Or somewhere else?

Please comment in the PR #1641 if you notice something. One known problem is that the Calendar app widget breaks when using the Tasks app widget. I currently look into this.