Hi,
In order to (hopefully) make this stuff clearer, I've made an
illustration showing how I perceive the different situations happening
when changing the due date or the start date of a task. The
illustration is available here (in png and svg):
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0KMTVA0nZXUdEVFNDB2akcydTg
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0KMTVA0nZXUVVY5eHlVYUpvckE
For each kind of parent/children configurations, I tried to identify
how I think the parents and children dates should be affected when the
start/due dates of a task is changed.
I think it's a good way to maintain consistency when changing dates,
mostly because it corresponds to how a visually-oriented
representation such as the one used in the illustration should behave.
Indeed, I think this visual representation corresponds to the natural
way of representing tasks in a timeline, which makes it interesting
and could maybe be used sometimes in GTG (this would make sense IMHO,
even though I have no idea about where or when we could use it).
Please note that in this proposition, I think that only dates that are
explicitely set should be updated when necessary, other should be left
unset. Indeed, IMHO, setting no date implicetly means that this date
actually extends to all permitted time (take look at the illustration
to get a clearer idea about this), and this meaning should not be
altered by setting a specific date.
Bertrand
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nimit Shah<nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey!
While working on the date structure. I got this doubt:
consider a structure A (due next month)
-- B (due tomorrow)
Now suppose, the user tries to set the start date of B to some later date than next month. What should I do? As of now. I am shifting B's start_date and due_date to the due date of A.
Izidor gave these suggestions:not change the start_date of B.
push the change of start_date and due_date over the whole structure (up and down).
Any suggestions, which of the approaches should I go ahead with?
Nimit Shah,
B Tech 3rd year,
Computer Engineering Department,
SVNIT Surat
Secretary ACM-NIT Surat
www.dude-says.blogspot.com
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