549227 - Today Pane: Filter tasks that have future Start dates

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 415548

(Calendar :: Tasks, enhancement)

Description

[Pete Riley]

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I'd like to hide tasks in the today pane when the Start date is in the future.

Example 1:  I wash my car every Saturday but I don't want to see this task in the today pane all week.  So I set the Start date to Friday and the Due date to Saturday.  The task never appears in the Soon section.  On Friday it appears in "Tomorrow" and on Saturday it appears in "Today".

2) In addition to hiding tasks, the Start date could also force future tasks to appear sooner.  According to Christian's specs, the today/tomorrow/soon sections are based on due dates.  These sections only include one or two weeks of the future so we wouldn't see a task that is due next month that we have to start this month.

Example 2:  Assume today is 1 Nov 2008.  I set the Start date to 15 Nov 2008 and the Due date to 15 Dec 2008.  The task appears in the today pane on 15 Nov 2008 even though it's not due today/tomorrow/soon.

In the second example, I think it would be okay to list the task in the Soon section.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

What Lightning version do you use? Task should not be displayed in the Agenda section of the Today Pane. They should be displayed in the Tasks section of the Today Pane only. How did you managed to show them?

Otherwise same as Bug 415548?

Comment 2

[Pete Riley]

I have no tasks in the agenda section of the today pane.  Sorry if comment 0 is misleading, I wrote it 1.5 years ago when Christian's design spec included sections like today/tomorrow/soon in the *task* pane:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Mail_View_Integration#Customize_Tasks_List

Even if that design spec is obsolete and there won't be today/tomorrow/soon sections for tasks, I think this feature request is still useful.

Bug 415548 wants to filter tasks based on Due date.  That's good but I'd also like to filter tasks based on Start date.  I think this feature request is different.

The goal is to hide tasks until Today >= the Start date so those future tasks don't clutter the today pane until it's time to start working on them.  It would also allow seeing big projects (e.g. that span many months) in the today pane even though the Due date is far in the future (and thus wouldn't be shown until one week before the due date if bug 415548 is implemented).

Comment 3

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

I agree with Stefan. This should be included in bug 415548. Therefore I mark
this bug as duplicate of the other one.