Feature: Tasks details openable for started tasks

[monofox]

If a task is started, at top of the page, the corresponding task is shown and the timer is running:

But: the corresponding tasks is not necessarily at the top of the page.
Means: if i want now to open the task details (again), i need to search the task again.

Two possible solutions:

1. we put an "details" button near to "stop" or
2. we try to change sorting by bringing started entries at top
3. (we temporarily assign a tag on start, which is ensuring, that the priority is very, very, very high and which we remove on stop. This sounds a bit too dirty for me).

For option 2, we would need to think on different scenarios (custom queries, ...). I'm not sure, if we can control the sort for export or if we need to do the sort manually (if no custom query is running, which might give a report with sort configurations).

What do you think?

[tmahmood]

Hey,

Good catch.

When we have an active task, there can be another table on the top, that only displays the result of task +ACTIVE. That way we don't have to do any unconventional things

[monofox]

Good point of just fetching a second time. Would you also list it twice (once at top and once below)? Or should we just add it, if it is not part of the list yet?
Because in worst case you would get the task twice near to each other (if it got already such a high urgency thanks to procrastination, that it got the most important task).

So it should not be a big deal to fetch the active one and to have a look if its part of the list and if not, we just push it at top.
On the other hand, if the frequent check on /tasks/active endpoint suddenly returns something, you cannot see the corresponding task on top of the task list until you refresh.

If we put the active task into the /tasks/active endpoint to while fetching the timer - how we deal with the shortcuts? Because we do not know, which one are already assigned in current list.

[tmahmood]

Hey, sorry, I was not able to respond earlier.

The active task should be added on the top as a separate list. No matter it's in the current listing or not. No need to find it on the actual listing and put it on top.

If I remember correctly, active task is automatically assigned a higher urgency, and will be on top anyway (I could be wrong)?

The active task list will be on auto refresh, so it will continuously update the active task list anyway. The only keyboard interaction it needs is to stop the active task. So, we do not need to worry about managing keyboard shortcuts.

Sorry again if I am sounding additionally incoherent, Sleep-deprived.