feat: implement repeating tasks

[raimund-schluessler]

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[meichthys]

This looks like a great start!
Thanks @sunkup for your work on this 👍

[raimund-schluessler]

@sunkup I rebased to current master.

[arunas-smala]

Any plans to finish it? Any help needed?

[sunkup]

Any plans to finish it? Any help needed?

Please, feel free. I don't really get to work on this more any time soon 👍

[bobiko]

What is the status of ? from what I see, it's stuck on a synchronization problem

[meichthys]

@jancborchardt Do you think the Nextcloud Groupware or Tasks teams could provide a helping hand to get this over the finish line? It's one of the oldest (from Nextcloud v9) and as far as I can see, it is the most requested feature in all of nextcloud by a significant margin (379 👍) As a longtime user of Nextcloud (and tasks), I've taken a few shots at implementing this myself, but haven't gotten anywhere as close as this draft PR.

[osscombat]

is there any hope to see it resolved?

[homegrownhrbs]

I am very excited for reoccurring tasks! This will change the game for my use case.

[jancborchardt]

@jancborchardt Do you think the Nextcloud Groupware or Tasks teams could provide a helping hand to get this over the finish line? It's one of the oldest (from Nextcloud v9) and as far as I can see, it is the most requested feature in all of nextcloud by a significant margin (379 👍) As a longtime user of Nextcloud (and tasks), I've taken a few shots at implementing this myself, but haven't gotten anywhere as close as this draft PR.

@meichthys is there some list of what’s missing? cc @ChristophWurst @AndyScherzinger possibly for planning.

[meichthys]

@jancborchardt Thanks for reaching out!
Over the past few months I've lost track of the most recent progress on this, so I don't have a list of what's missing, but perhaps @sunkup could shed some light?

[sunkup]

I will look into it one of the coming days and create an overview of the current state.

[sunkup]

Here's a list of what is (not) working.

Mind you this was an experiment for me. The code is not pretty and needs refactoring from someone more experienced. While I learned a lot about vue and nextcloud apps, I realise, I don't want to work on this anymore. I hope @ChristophWurst can make something of it. If not, then maybe just use it as a template and start over from scratch. 👍

I am happy this feature gets some attention now. Looking forward to use it :)

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• show recurring tasks with "repeat" checkbox icon (works)
• on marking as complete (Does not seem to work anymore, but did work, so probably just broken)
  • if UNTIL is not reached:
    • update the task start date, to the next recurring date (even if that one still lies in the past too)
    • clear the due date, if it lies before the next recurrence date
    • do not mark as complete
  • if UNTIL was reached: handle the task like a non-recurring; mark as complete
• on marking as cancelled (works)
  • cancel the whole recurring todo - ie "all days"
• recurrence setting in side menu (similar to the calendar app)
  • display current recurrence state (works)
  • Delete recurrence (works)
  • editing:
    • never
    • daily (works, but needs a lot of refactoring)
      • + interval
    • weekly
    • monthly
    • yearly
  • localised translations

[frederikb96]

This forum post is also about this issue, just wanted to link it here for reference :)

And in the post, the Android app tasks.org is mentioned, which supports recurrent tasks. I use it myself, and this way recurrent tasks can be synced via davx to Nextcloud. They are not displayed correctly, though, obviously :)

Probably, you already know about this, but if not, maybe knowing how tasks.org handles recurrent tasks and syncing to davx, helps during development :)

Thanks 🙂

[meichthys]

And in the post, the Android app tasks.org is mentioned, which supports recurrent tasks. I use it myself, and this way recurrent tasks can be synced via davx to Nextcloud. They are not displayed correctly, though, obviously :)

Be careful not to mark a recurring task as complete via the Nextcloud web interface. The task recurrence will be corrupted.

[Luncheon3462]

+1 for interest/need for the feature.