Allow empty due dates or TBD dates for unscheduled actions
This is relatively straightforward, if we make some gross assumptions; that is, a TBD action is always treated as if it was due today, so will always be matched by a "late" search, or a date search that covers today's date. I am assuming no extensions to search to support searching for TBD actions are required. The trick is to develop testcases that cover all the corner cases.
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To simplify this, let's assume that any empty date it TBD. So we only have to support empty date. I think a very logical (and possibly simple) way to handle requires two changes:
- When an empty date is saved, it's translated to "9999-12-31".
- When a date of "9999-12-31" is displayed in %ACTION%, %ACTIONSEARCH% or the edit form it's an empty string.
- To search for all empty dates, you'd actually search on "9999-12-31". Search results when sorted by date, would display the empty dates last (chronologically as "9999-12-31").
Does this approach work?
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TWiki:Main.RobertGraff
It's really no advantage over storing 'TBD' in the date field. I already coded this; the only thing outstanding is the tests.
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