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[Nimit Shah <nimit.svnit@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome images Bertrand!
I'll make the structure as per the images and Izidor's start date suggestion

Nimit Shah,
B Tech 3rd year,
Computer Engineering Department,
SVNIT Surat
Secretary ACM-NIT Surat
www.dude-says.blogspot.com



On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Bertrand Rousseau <
bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi Bertrand,
> >
> > Nice pics! I would just say, that moving start date shouldn't update
> other
> > start dates. We want from subtasks to be rather steps you have to
> accomplish
> > before working on the main task than a "container" for subtasks. In other
> > words, when I have planned a trip (14.6. - 20. 6.) and I have a subtask
> "Buy
> > ticket" which should be done between 10.6. - 12. 6., according to you
> trip
> > has to have start date 10.6.
> >
> > IMHO the only constrain for start date should be that start date < due
> date.
> > In the current GTG it is more a planning mechanism (way how to hide task
> in
> > workview) than something rigidly set.
>
> All right, I'll update the drawing accordingly. That should help to
> get a clear documentation on this behaviour.
>
> >
> > Izidor
> >
> >
> >
> > On 06/03/2012 10:33 PM, Bertrand Rousseau wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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> >>
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