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The basics

Often I hear about the very basic problem that users can't edit a task or a project. That's because on websites you're looking for a button to click to start an action. But todoyu isn't a simple website, so there isn't always a button to click. As in desktop applications, you can use the context menu (right mouse click) to see a list of available commands.

Context menus are available on several elements inside of todoyu, for example on tasks, projects or events. The context menu for an element can be extended very easy by extensions.

The available options in the task context menu can depend on your rights, the current status of the task itself or other factors. So you won't always see all possible options.

Copy & Paste

A very powerful feature is copy & paste for tasks. Under the “Task ...” option you'll find more options like “Copy” and “Cut”. As soon as you have selected one of these options, a new option “Paste task …” appears in the first level of the task context menu, when you open the context menu on another task. Now you can choose the position how to paste the task.

Pasting a task is only available in project view, but you can paste it into every project you open. You can even open todoyu in a new tab and paste the task there. When you select to copy a task which has subtasks, todoyu will ask you, if you want to copy all the subtasks too. So it's quite easy to restructure your task tree in the project view. You can't paste a task in the portal, because there are only lists of filtered tasks, so you only can cut or copy them from there.

Here you will find a context menu in todoyu

  • task
  • project
  • bookmark
  • daytrack
  • event
  • the free calendar area

For the extension developers out there

It's very easy to extend an existing context menu or even create a new type for your own elements. To extend a context menu, just add your callback function for the menu type. To extend the task context menu, add the following line to your init.php file:

TodoyuContextMenuManager::addFunction('Task', 'MyClass::getMyCustomContextItems');

The easiest way is to have a look at the existing callback functions and copy some of their functionality. You'll get the task ID and the current list of menu items as parameters in your function. So you can add, modify or remove menu items depending on the context element and the users permissions.

todoyu release 2.1 is ready to download!

The new release of todoyu is out and ready for download! In this version (2.1) we have a lot of new features and bugs fixed. Check out the News-Page to get a quick overview:

todoyu 2.1 News-Page

Download todoyu 2.1

Please get back to me with feedback and questions to adrian@anti-cluttertodoyu.com. Our developer-team, which did a great job to make this powerful new Release ready by today, will answer your posts in the message-board.

Help us develop more cool features and make todoyu even more powerful; we are happy about every donation! Thanks!

 

Thomas Schläpfer from snowflake Japan and me will attend the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco May 16-17, 2011. We'll be having discussions and demos around the todoyu software. 

Please get in contact with me (adrian@anti-cluttertodoyu.com / www.twitter.com/todoyu) if you're around in San Francisco at the osbc.com or also if you're just in the area. We'd like to get in touch with people interested in todoyu or/and are already using it.

Cu in San Francisco!

The official todoyu handbook is published in German. You can order the todoyu user guide on amazon.de for € 19,90,- (free shipping).

The book is published within the FOSdoc-initiative and is under a free License. With the purchase of the book you support the project.

The book contains everything you need to know while working with todoyu as a user, but also with sections for sys-admins, power-users and developers.

Enjoy!

todoyu official user guide book available soon

Last night was the deadline for make the last changes to our official todoyu user-guide book. This morning the script went into print! We are proud to soon give out the first official todoyu book in about 2 weeks.

With more than 200 pages this book will be a very nice tool for users to get used to todoyu and to get the most efficient way to work with it. There are a lot of tipps and tricks included from our snowflake-know-how which we gained in the last 5 years with the work within todoyu. Also the experience from our clients and freelancers is in there. todoyu users will have the possibility to work with real examples and use-cases in their installation mentioned in the book. But there's also an Admin section and a Developer section, which makes this book valuable for everyone who wants to work with todoyu. The book will be in german and the price will be less than 20.00 euros, pre-orders available here:

http://www.amazon.de/Projekt--Taskmanagement-mit-todoyu-offizielle/dp/3941841289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299774205&sr=8-1

 

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  • Kay28.09.2011

    Hi Sergey, this varies from system to system, but i added an example into the post.

  • Sergey14.09.2011

    Could you,please, give an example how cron config file should look like?

  • Dominic12.08.2011

    ... then stop eating these little pills your brother gave you...

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