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Bug 332097

Summary:

allow new task wizard for sub tasks

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Thomas Ehrnhoefer <thomas.ehrnhoefer>

Component:

Mylyn

Assignee:

Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>

Status:

CLOSED MOVED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

b.muskalla, keely_tigs, shawn.minto, steffen.pingel

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 7

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch v1	thomas.ehrnhoefer: review?
mylyn/context/zip	none

Description Thomas Ehrnhoefer

2010-12-07 18:40:10 EST

Some connectors require certain data (e.g. the task type) to be known before opening the editor (to get proper taskData). For new tasks, this is solved using the connectorUi.getNewTaskWizard, but for subtask creation there seems to be no current hook.
Suggestion (from Shawn): use the same mechanism, e.g a connectorUi.getNewSubtaskWizard given the parent task as parameter.

Comment 1 Thomas Ehrnhoefer

2010-12-07 20:37:21 EST

Created attachment 184766 [details]
patch v1

Here is a first shot at this. Let me know what you think of that approach.

Comment 2 Thomas Ehrnhoefer

2010-12-07 20:37:23 EST

Created attachment 184767 [details]
mylyn/context/zip

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2010-12-27 14:43:40 EST

The original idea behind the new subtask button was that it would support subtask creation with a single click. Generally it is recommended to design the editor in such a way that all attributes can be changed dynamically.

I can see however that some connectors may require additional input to construct the task schema. I'm not fond of the suggested approach as it makes the API for creating tasks inconsistent with the API for creating subtasks but I don't have a better idea at the moment. 

I'll add this request to the backlog and we consider it if we get more input or votes for it. I would recommend to disable the ability to add subtasks for the specific connector for now and consider contributing a toolbar button and menu item to implement a custom action for creating subtasks.

Comment 4 Kajsa Anderson

2011-02-02 15:57:30 EST

+1 vote for this; if it's significant, I'm using the JIRA connecter.

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

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