Completion date and recurrence not being applied to task when selecting any "DONE" indicator from drop down status menu in modal

[gypsyav]

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Expected Behavior

When selecting any status indicator in the drop down list that indicates a task is done a completion date should be added to the task and for recurring tasks a new recurrence should be triggered.

Current behaviour

When using the status drop down to mark a task the task does not get a completion date added and a recurrence is not triggered.

Steps to reproduce

Bring up the tasks modal and select a DONE status from the drop down list instead of checking the box.

Which Operating Systems are you using?

• Android
• iPhone/iPad
• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Obsidian Version

1.1.9

Tasks Plugin Version

1.23

Checks

• I have tried it with all other plugins disabled and the error still occurs

Possible solution

No response

[claremacrae]

Hi @gypsyav, thanks for logging this.

Yes, you are correct, it's a known and documented limitation:
https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/getting-started/create-or-edit-task/#status

There simply wasn't time to implement this before releasing the new statuses, and I felt it was better to release the new features that were already working, as it would already be useful to many people.

Updating the dialog will actually be a highly non-trivial feature to implement, and will need a lot of thinking about all the various states that the data in the modal can go through.

For example, what if the task was DONE when the dialog was opened, then the user switched the status to TODO, so the Done Date would be removed from the modal - but then the user turned it back to DONE again. Should the Done date be the original one which should be remembered, or should it be the new one?

[gypsyav]

Thanks for the explanation. I should have read the docs. :)

Thanks for all the work you do on this plugin.

[claremacrae]

Thanks for the explanation. I should have read the docs. :)

No, it's OK, I'm glad you logged it - I had been meaning to, and you kindly saved me the time!

[claremacrae]

Apologies that this is still not fixed. Some recent PRs have moved the code a little in the direction where a fix becomes manageable... However, my first attempt at fixing it this evening was not successful.

So I have, for now, at least implemented the alternative request of adding a warning in the modal about this limitation.

• See screenshot in fix: Warn in Edit Task modal about Status-editing limitations #2558

[claremacrae]

This is now fixed, and will be included in the next Tasks release.