Is it possible to have an API or trigger for recurring tasks | Task Board plugin integration #3479
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Hello Tasks community! I am the developer of Task board plugin and I have always tried to provide a full integration of Tasks plugin inside Task board. As of now, I have been able to integrate most of the functionalities/properties which are supported by Tasks plugin, such as Created date, Start date, Schedule date, Dude date, Completion date, priority, task status, etc. (Some of these functionalities will be released in upcoming version, But, I got stuck when It came to recurring tasks. This concept is a little difficult for me to understand and took me some time to completely grasp it. I have kind of gone through the complete page on recurring task of Tasks plugin docs. And based on this I feel that, this is a very challenging concept both to implement and to use it properly without any confusion. Tasks plugin has very well handled it as of now. But there are few places where it confuses me, hence I came up with few new ideas, which I would like to first implement in Task Board first and if worked well, I would like to contribute the same in Tasks plugin in future. I have discussed the same in my this comment : tu2-atmanand/Task-Board#143 (comment) For now, the best integration approach I can think of is let Tasks plugin itself handle the automation part as well as adding the recurring property to a task, instead of me re-inventing everything, which will take a significant amount of time. The only issue I am facing is, and which is also has created a sort of bug in my plugin is that, the recurring rule trigger is not executing when any recurring task has been marked as complete through Task Board. The reason for this is, since Task board basically replaces the old content with the new content which modifies the checkbox status from To solve this bug, I can trigger this action by first finding the task inside the note and then trigger a checkbox click event for that task. Although I havent researched on how to do this yet. But the reason for creating this topic is to learn if there is any better approach for this effective integration or if there is any API provided by Tasks plugin. This topic is for Tasks plugin developers as well as Tasks plugin users to share their thoughts on what will be the best approach for this integration. Thank you in advance, looking for your suggestions! |
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Hi, There is a method on the Tasks API that enables other plugins that, I believe, already does what I think you are asking for: It knows all about the Tasks settings, like custom statuses. And it supports recurring tasks. There is a GitHub search in the docs showing which other plugins have adopted it. If that is not what you meant, please provide a summary of your question(s). |
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Yes, I tried this one and indeed a very helpful API and could be a possible solution. But this API is actually returning a result instead of executing the functionality of clicking on the checkbox button. As can be seen from the below : This is a nice solution, but might need some work to do from my end to replace the old content with the new one. And if Tasks plugin integrates any additional automations into this feature in the future, then I will need to handle all these things. What I expected from this API was that, it should have directly done the job of replacing the old content with the new content. Or in other words, execute all the other process which should usually execute when a user clicks on the Checkbox. The current working of Task Board looks like this, which is basically breaking the recurring task :
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What I am expecting is, and as per my previous solution to solve this bug:
I want to know if this 2nd and 3rd step is possible? Then this will be the best solution to have. |
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That cannot always be the possible, for example the Kanban plugin acts on a non-Markdown view, so there is no way that the Tasks plugin could update the underlying data. It is the author of Kanban (an Obsidian team member, AFAIK) who created Also, I am not interested in doing user-support for Tasks being responsible for file handling in all possible scenarios in other plugins. |
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Yeah, thats true! Anyways, the API has done the job. I feel like I am asking too much here. I can achieve want I want easily with the API. My only concern was, say in if in the future, there is a feature to this recurring task functionality, wherein, if user marks the task as complete, the new task will be created in some other file, something like this. Then will this API will still hold vital? If this happens, it will again break the integration of many plugin which are dependent on the API. Thats why I wanted to have such a solution where, Task Board will trigger the even of clicking on the Checkbox inside the Note and Tasks plugin will think that a real user has clicked on the Checkbox and will proceed with the applicable execution for that task. But for now, will proceed with the API. |
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I take backwards compatibility very, very seriously - making breaking changes is a pain for me and users: So of course I would not change the API in a way that would break existing users - I would add a new method instead with any hypothetical changing behaviour. |
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I searched the docs but didnt found my answer so asking here. If there is such a functionality in Tasks plugin. Then will the API going to return only the final output ? |
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A natural place to look for this would be in the documentation for Recurring tasks... The Tip links to the info you want: https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Getting+Started/Recurring+Tasks Yes, I expect the API would honour that flag, since it calls the same code that 'toggle task done' does. |
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Ohh my bad! I thought there was a setting for that. Its a flag, understood. Thanks! |
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BTW, I completed the integration. Thank you for your quick responses, I was able to achieve it faster. Even better, in Task Board you can put sub-tasks and description to the recurring tasks. |
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Wow, that's really good. Congratulations! |
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Hi,
There is a method on the Tasks API that enables other plugins that, I believe, already does what I think you are asking for:
It knows all about the Tasks settings, like custom statuses. And it supports recurring tasks.
There is a GitHub search in the docs showing which other plugins have adopted it.
If that is not what you meant, please provide a summary of your question(s).