Re: [tasklist] Export to html

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Paulo Sergio Carmo wrote:

 | Hello,
 | 
 |     I would like to export tasklist files (.ics) to html without 
 | starting the IDE, is that possible ?

Are you trying to come up with an automated way to have
your tasks visible from a web page or something like that?

It's not currently possible, although it should be possible
to construct a script plus a simple "driver" class which
simply calls the read-list and export-list methods, with
a bunch of IDE .jar files on the path.

But if I've guessed what you want to do correctly, I have
an alternative way I wanted to solve this problem:
"auto export".    Here's how I imagined it would work:
you (in some way through the GUI) select a filename for
your html export. Anytime the tasklist itself is updated,
the html file is updated too.   Exporting to HTML is not
an expensive operation so I think this would work well,
and you would have the same net result as some automated
cronjob/batch job which regularly exports your tasklist
to an html file.

I've just been swamped lately so I haven't had time to
work on this (and I've got plenty of other enhancements
I'd like to implement too :)

Perhaps this will tickle the interest of some of the other
developers?    Implementation wise it should be very easy;
the trick is to come up with a good user interface for it.

Here's one idea:  the Export menu (which is a pullright
menu, which lists the file formats you can export to) could
also have an "Automatic..." button which when selected
brings up a dialog where you can enable/disable the automatic
export feature, select a filename as the export target,
select a file format to use when exporting, and obviously
the Help button on the dialog should provide more information.

-- Tor