Task format
Bo Thorsen
bo at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Mon Sep 20 15:17:30 CEST 2004
On Monday 20 September 2004 14:39, Joon Radley wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During the implementation of the task object I was unable to integrate
> the full format.
>
> The following issues arose:
>
> A) Location and parent fields are not set as I cannot map anything to
> it.
Doesn't Outlook have subtasks? The parent field is the uid of the parent
task.
> B) Start date and due date can only be in date format and not date
> time.
A limitation, but not one I see as a big problem.
> C) I cannot set the alarm field as due date is only a date and
> not a date time. I do set a tag called <reminder-time> that contains a
> date time format for the alarm.
Will have to think about what we can do about this.
> D) For the priority tag I only have 3 values low, normal, high. When
> translating from the xml format I map 1 & 2 to low, 3 to normal and 4 &
> 5 to high, but when translating from outlook to xml I set low to 1,
> normal to 3 and high to 5. Who does this impact on Kontact?
It's not more than a week ago that a guy said three priority levels are
enough. So I don't think this has any big implications.
> E) Recurrence and attendees are not implemented as they different from
> the event object in Outlook. I will try and find a middle ground for
> this, but the abstraction for the incidence base is to generic to make
> it fit.
Let us know what you come up with.
So far, the only critical thing I see here is the parent thing.
Bo.
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Bo Thorsen | Praestevejen 4
Senior Software Engineer | 5290 Marslev
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult | Denmark
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