[cosmo-dev] Re: Creating Tasks from Lightning

[Alan Lord]

Brian Moseley wrote:
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Sorry for the slow reply...

> if so, here are proposals to address the issues:
> 
> 1) add a flag to the task stamp that indicates the item should be
> exported to iCalendar as a VTODO regardless of whatever other stamps
> the item might have, and set the flag when VTODOs are created with
> CalDAV or Atom.

If this means that when you create a "task" in Cosmo, it gets exported 
as such, I agree. There doesn't appear to be a way to explicitly NOT 
create an event from within the calendar view. Selecting the 
Mark-as-Task checkbox should override the event setting IMHO.

> 2) add a UI preference that determines whether or not task-only items
> are shown in the calendar view.

Nice.

> thoughts?
> 
> ps: I haven't opened any bugs on this yet, but when we have a concrete
> plan I will.

When I started using Cosmo the first thing I found confusing was that 
tasks don't appear in the web display of the calendar by default - 
adding a per-user choice to show tasks in calendar view would be great.

The other thing that caught me out was when saving a task from lightning 
into my Cosmo calendar, it is stored, but I can't see it either in the 
calendar UI or the list based presentation. The calendar I stored it in 
is a subscribed to calendar for which I have a read/write ticket. The 
task is stored as it displays correctly in Lightning when I reload or 
reboot Thunderbird.

Cheers

Alan

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