155882 - Tasks (ToDo) need an Alarm (just like Events)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

ToDo needs an Alarm (just ike Events)

Sometimes I want to be "reminded" of an important ToDo task without having to
look at the ToDo list.

[x] Alarm [ 1 ] day before task is due.

Default should be ON. Default time before due date should be settable in prefs.

If no due date is selected, then Alarm should be disabled (grayed-out).

Comment 1

[Mike Potter]

Please don't add mozilla keywords to bugs.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

I don't really agree with this, however I'll keep it open in case someone else
wants to do it.

Comment 3

[Peter Lairo]

In response to comment #2:

I actually use my Calendar much more to keep track of "ToDo" lists than for
events. I therefore need the tasks to support alarms before I can use Mozilla
Calendar.

Without alarms, tasks are not very useful to me, since my task list tends to be
very long, and I don't want to read the entire list several times a day to see
if I've missed something. I would like to be "notified" via alarm of tasks that
are soon to be due.

Comment 4

[bhaveshp]

I hundred percent agree with Peter Lairo.As I too have a huge list of tasks(like
many others) sitting in my Microsoft Outlook which i want to move to the
Calendar app but since  there is no alarm support I cannot use the calendar.

Comment 5

[Giorgos Vasiliou]

Yes, this is a really important feature. I want to put reminders, e.g. "Call
John at 10" which is not possible with Calendar.

Comment 6

[Mostafa Hosseini]

I've started working on this and with this checkin:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=mozilla%2Fcalendar&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=08%2F15%2F2003&maxdate=08%2F16%2F2003+23%3A59&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

tasks can now have most fields that events have including alarms and recurrence.
The alarm is triggered relative to the start time rather than the more
reasonable due time, for now.

Comment 7

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Next step to fix this bug:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=mozilla%2Fcalendar&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=08%2F22%2F2003&maxdate=08%2F22%2F2003+23%3A59&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

With this checkin, the alarm can be set to go off relative to a task/event's
due/end time.

Comment 8

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Last step to fix this bug was just taken:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=CalendarClient&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=mozilla%2Fcalendar&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=09%2F25%2F2003&maxdate=09%2F26%2F2003&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Now, the default time by which an alarm goes off before an event/task
starts/ends/isdue can be defined in the preferences.

I guess this bug can be resolved as fix now.

Comment 9

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Sunbird Only. Be afraid for your sanity!