Re: [tasklist] Done/PercentsComplete

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 10:16, Tim Lebedkov wrote:
> Hi Tor,
> 
> 2. We could just force the user to have subtasks that form the complete 100%
> of parent task

But this means users won't be able to do subtasks like this:

  - fix bug C
    - check if C is the same as bug G

I think this is valid usage of the user tasks (because I tend to
do subtasks that way) so I'd prefer it if this wasn't prevented.

>     If it is not enough we could introduce effort field and compute the
> average using this field.
>     This way percents property will be only editable for tasks that have no
> children.

How about if we keep track of whether or not the user has edited
the priority?

By default, a task has percent complete = -1.
The user can set it to any number in the interval [0,100].
(We may also allow the user to set it to -1).

If you ask for getPercentComplete()   (which is done by the
view when displaying the tasklist)
    if -1, it returns an average of the child priorities
    else return percent number

The net effect of this is that if I just enter some tasks, set some
children tasks to say 25% done - then the parent task will update
to show a percentage based on the children.  If I go and hand-edit
the percent complete on the parent task (such that it's no longer -1
internally), then that number is used.

-- Tor