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Dan,
I think adding wordwap to custom text columns would open up a lot of new uses for TDL.
I use to use Microsoft Access to develop custom databases, but it is so much easier to create a simple database with TDL.
However, when I add custom text columns to a simple database that I want create with TDL, the text columns can get too wide without wordwrap. This limits considerably what I can do with custom text field types of ToDoLists.
Have you given any thought to adding wordwrap to custom text columns? Would that be difficult to implement? Would you consider this feature for a future release?
Thanks,
Dave Thompson
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Hi All,
I'm proposing a significant upgrade to the Calendar plugin in 6.8.
The most significant change will be to render the space between start and due dates as a continuous coloured bar, like in Outlook, with the facility to drag either the whole bar or either of its ends to changes its dates.
This facility will also be implemented similarly in the Gantt chart.
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Personally, I don't currently use this feature much. However, I would if I could change dates by dragging.
I would probably only show the Due date however, as I use this as my 'action date'. As long as these single dates are draggable as well, I would be happy.
You already know I am keen to be able to drag in Gantt view.
zajchapp
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zajchapp wrote: As long as these single dates are draggable as well
They will.
zajchapp wrote: You already know I am keen to be able to drag in Gantt view.
I certainly do!
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Great news! Both these features (colored bar and drag-to-change) will significantly add more usability and visual perception to the plugins, looking forward to 6.8 
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An amazing tool! Often thought of making one for myself, but was too lazy to complete it. Thank you for giving a ready made one!
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Hi Dan,
Would it be possible to add an option in Listview to not show Referenced tasks. Otherwise you are essentially seeing the same task twice. I would also be happy with never showing them in this view...
Very useful in the other views mind you.
zajchapp
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zajchapp wrote: I would also be happy with never showing them in this view...
I agree. I've already filtered them out of the Calendar view for the same reason.
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Great
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Hi Dan,
Currently, among all right-click menu items the closest to the pointer is the most useless one. I think it would be more convenient to have New Task item and New Subtask item at the bottom, replacing Cancel item. Would you consider removing Cancel from the right-click menu as unnecessary? Alternatively, it's possible to leave New Task/Subtask items at the top, provided the mouse pointer does not stay at the bottom upon right-clicking. One option is to position it over New Tasks item. I am not sure which is the easiest, but as of now the task of adding a new item via the right-click menu can be simplified.
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andkostenko wrote: the most useless one.
Please avoid phrases like this, as it doesn't make me inclined to read the rest of your post. 
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I think the relevant addition would be that of mentioning that the situation described in my previous communication can only be reproduced by right-clicking at some lower part of the screen. As to your reply, maybe you will find some time to read the title of this post at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-new-users. If I were you, I would simply explain a new user what that "Cancel" item cancels and how to use it most usefully.
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Thank you for your comments.
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As with all popup menus in Windows, if it can open below the cursor without reaching the bottom of your monitor, then the popup menu will open downwards. So if you have ToDoList at the very top of your screen and you right-click on the top item in your tasklist, it will probably open downwards, and the New Task item would be immediately below your cursor.
However if there is not enough space for the menu to open downwards, it will open upwards and Cancel will be closest. Changing the order of the popup menu is not the solution here. Probably the main problem (if indeed there is one) is that the popup menu is pretty big, and maybe it could be trimmed.
I do agree that Cancel is not required though. Though I may have pointed this out slightly less bluntly 
Cheers
[d3m0n]
Email (replace "***" with "key")
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Thx for trying to see both sides mate, but after 10 years of having people project their expectations and disappointments of TDL onto me, I have to draw the line somewhere...
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Dan,
when I create a custom attribute, type 'Number (fractional)', I have noticed that :
* If I populate '5' in the field, why the value is not transformed to '5,00' like for 'Cost' field for example ?
Kind regards
modified 3 days ago.
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Hello Dan,
I have a remark about the Gantt.
each line of the gantt has an alternate color even if I uncheck the option 'alternante color'
Currently the Gantt is not very readable between the color of bars, the color of line and the color of week-ends...
In my opinion, even if there is alternate color for tasks, the gantt visualisation part should be without any alternate color. Or it should be an option...
Kind regards
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laurentbosc wrote: each line of the gantt has an alternate color even if I uncheck the option 'alternante color'
It works fine for me in 6.7.DR6.
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Indeed, the gantt in 6.7 DR6 has great improvements, and the option 'Alternate color' is working.
But I would keep the alternate color in all views, including Gantt view.
But just for the gantt part (where gantt bars are displayed), I think it is more readable to never have alternate color.
Or perhaps a separate option ?: Even In case of alternate color checked, add the possibility to have no background color for the gantt part ?
I hope I'm clear...
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Can you send me screenshots so that I can see why the alternate line colour is such a problem for you in the Gannt view?
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It is especially in 'day' or 'week' view where :
- there is the week-ends in dark gray,
- The alternate color for lines
- the grid
- the bars
- the active task line highlighted
a little bit difficult to focus on the main items : the bars. According to me alternate color is not essential in this view, but it is just my opinion 
kind reagards
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Can you send me a screenshot pls?
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While I use Freeplane, I have also tried this with Freemind. The results are the same.
The values of the attributes are incorrect. For example I have checked Creation Date to be among the exported attributes. Yet when I open the mm file in either Freeplane or Freemind, the attribute does not appear. I have also tried exporting all attributes with the same result. All of the attributes are not exported and appear to be excluded even if they contain values. Allocated By has a value and is exported without a value as TaskAllocatedBy. However Allocated To also has a value yet does not show up in the export at all.
Furthermore, names of attributes appears to be inconsistent. I know about the display names, but the names in the task list differ from those in the selection of attributes listed in export (understandable because of the use of display names), but these also differ from the names that are exported.
Thank you.
Jon
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Hi Jon
Can you send me a simple sample tasklist which comments regarding each and every missing attribute, and which attribute names are incorrect from your perspective?
Thx
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Sure, but it may not be necessary. If my explanation is clear enough for you to follow, this occurs in the Introduction.tdl file you include with the installer package.
Please let me know if I am doing something wrong or if my expectations of how this should work are incorrect.
Jon
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Member 10052396 wrote: If my explanation is clear enough for you to follow
Thx Jon, but I would not have asked for the extra information if what you had given me was sufficient.
modified yesterday.
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As written above: How to define total-sum (cumulation) of user-defined attributes?
Pierre
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User-defined attributes do not currently support summation. Sorry.
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Customs attributes should have a new option :
* For 'Number' custom fields : Sum values for parent tasks
* For 'Date' custom fields : For parent tasks , Calculate the min date or the max date of its subtasks
Kind regards
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Get it Here.
What's Changed
- Fixed custom filter bug in 'Show' droplist in filter dialog
- Fixed custom filter not working in Gantt
- Fixed 'big' icon on windows 8 taskbar
- Fixed sorting on custom attributes
- Fixed translation bugs
- Changed 'Gantt Item' header to 'Task'
- Fixed dropdown width of filter combo
- Fixed AltGr bug by changing shortcuts for copy/paste of rich-text formatting
- Added logging support for intermediate tasklists
- Fixed date/time corruption when saving tasklist
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.dan.g. wrote: What's Changed
- Fixed 'big' icon on windows 8 taskbar
- Fixed date/time corruption when saving tasklist
Dan,
I've downloaded the new build, but these two are still happening for me (win7).
The first doesn't matter much in my situation, but the second is quite important. I've set up tasks as before, and the GANTT tab does not reflect the data that appears in the details for the selected tasks, and the time changes. The problem seems related to a complex interaction between estimated time, spent time, start time (date hour minute), due time (date hour minute), and dependency. Maybe also the calculation of a parent's due date from the subtasks. Don't know - it's hard to catch the change happening.
I have tasks I use for lectures - I assign assign a start time and end time that represent the time of the lecture. I assign the time spent immediately (not time estimated) since I know the meeting/lecture will last certain amount of time - it is not accurate to the minute (2.5 hrs instead of 2 hrs 20 mins). I also make a prep task that I say is a dependency - I cannot complete the meeting/lecture unless I complete the prep. The prep has an estimated time. For a series of lectures I link each lecture to its own prep. I then link the prep tasks to each other - the first prep has no dependency, the second has the first prep as a dependency, etc.
Perhaps this is a problem - the interactions here seem fairly complex, and perhaps I am doing something wrong. Anyway the result is that all my scheduling is overwritten when I use dependencies, or change the dependencies, or change the time of a task involved in a dependency. The changes extend through the chain of related tasks. The tasks have a duration of 2 or 2.5 hours. The changes seem to amount to about 4 months - I'm getting tasks' due dates changed to June 4 2013, Sept 24 2013, the next to Jan 15 2014, the next to May 12 2014, etc. The due date + 1 day becomes the start date for the next task in the chain. I'm using 6.7.DR6
I have quite a few backups if this will help you track the changes that are occurring.
Hope this helps,
Tom
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The shortcuts for copying and pasting formatting in the rich-text comments field are: Ctrl+Alt+C and Ctrl+Alt+V.
Unfortunately these interfere with use of the AltGr key to provide accented characters in many languages such as Polish.
As a result I propose to change these shortcuts in 6.8, but the natural choice of Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V is complicated because the latter is already in use for Paste Simple (No formatting).
Any suggestions welcome.
[update]
I decided that the best solution was to remove the shortcut for Paste Simple and use Ctrl+Shift+C/V for the rich text formatting. DR6.
[/update]
modified 3 days ago.
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maybe this feature already exists, but I want to set a task to "read-only"? Already possible? Option for next release?
Pierre
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And when I say 'capable' I mean CAPABLE, because I want someone to create a simple database able to store a TDL tasklist in table form.
And the only real requirement at this stage is that it must be able to store hierarchies of tasks (I guess that each task would have to be keyed back to its parent).
I want the database so that I can start to get an idea of how much work would be involved in writing a storage plugin for SQL with or without ODBC.
ps. I might start with this while I wait for your efforts to flood in! 
modified 4 days ago.
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Unfortunately, as the article quotes:
"it’s slow and inefficient. This is mainly caused by the recursion. We need one database query for each node in the tree."
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I am.
I will start by saying that unless I am mistaken I don't believe that the database structure you need will be all that complex because you really are storing lots of the same thing (tasks). Yes, those tasks have a parent child relationship that can be nested quite deeply but that is fairly easily resolved by adding a ParentId property to each task. So in short, a Hierarchical database would be overkill. Keeping it simple is a great way to ensure that it stays fast and easy to upgrade.
I was really planning to work on something else this weekend but I will see if I can give it a shot.
If you have a TDL with data that you would like me to use then that would be peachy.
What database engine would you prefer to target?
Anthony
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AnthonyVO wrote: What database engine would you prefer to target?
To be honest I'm not even sure I know enough to answer that question, so let me describe my plans and hopefully we can figure out what to do!
My idea is that a given user can, via File > Load From, connect to a SQL compliant database and pull a tasklist representing only their tasks. They edit these and then save back to the database via File > Save To.
Since people may have existing databases, my ultimate plan is to allow users to connect to their database via ODBC somehow...
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Still working on it. Not as much free time as I had hoped.
Anthony
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AnthonyVO wrote: Not as much free time as I had hoped.
No pressure (ish).
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AnthonyVO wrote: If you have a TDL with data that you would like me to use then that would be peachy.
Sorry, I didn't answer this one. Use Introduction.tdl that's come with the app.
ps. I just uninstalled SQL Server 2008 because my setup had changed and now I can't reinstall it (even with Google's help), so maybe SQLLite is the way forward.
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Actually, I would push through trying to get 2008 installed.
SQLLite is not intended as a server class database. It is primarily intended to allow for the easy integration of a SQL backing store to your own application. You already accomplished that with an XML file.
In this case you want to add support for a database that is interesting to a business so that they can use TodoList to manage larger projects within a business environment.
Anthony
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AnthonyVO wrote: Actually, I would push through trying to get 2008 installed.
I've spent about 4 hours so far, not getting past installing SQL setup support files.
Googling suggests that the registry is causing the problem but nothing I tried worked. I'm out of ideas, but I'll try again next weekend.
One possible workaround would be to install SQL Server on a virtual machine and then connect to it via a network connection...
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AnthonyVO wrote: I would push through trying to get 2008 installed.
Victory! 
I'm ready when you are!
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Your ToDoList is excellent. I've been using it for years. Thank you.
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