Contents loss with SubtaskDescription when create task from Subtask

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My experience:

  1. I have been used to create additional subtask descriptions with plugin SubtaskDescription
  2. I can create a Task from such a subtask, see screenshot below!
  3. Subtask Title will become Task title of the new task
  4. Subtask will become deleted from Soure Task
  5. :warning::warning::warning: Old Subtask Description will not be transferred to New Task Escription :warning::warning::warning:

I think there should be an urgent warning in Plugin Description and may be somewhere else. I can’t find any warning.

Your experience T Thoughts?

Screenshots:

Subtask to Task:

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My Configuration

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Well, this Plugin is no longer listed in Plugins List.

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“Convert to task” is a core function, it doesn’t know about the description added by plugin. The plugin should overlay this to get it to work.

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Very unfortunate and extremely strange.

I tried to contact the author of that plugin, currently without any reaction. Now I’m considering taking over that plugin as well.

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The story continues

I have tried to contact the author of that plugin, to ask him to continue his work. Unfortunately, without any success, I got no response at all. It’s sad to lose such a tiny but very useful piece of software. Therefore, I created my own copy of SubtaskDescription, I’ll maintain it from there.

You can download the first migrated version from here, there shouldn’t be any functional differences. Maybe you have to uninstall the original version first.

As usual, any feedback is highly appreciated.

@Rainer: This issue you reported above is WIP. :wink:

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Great, I will install your version, soon!

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I did it!

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Worked fine in several tests I did.

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@Rainer I could fix “your” issue, you can download and install the updated version 1.1.3.
Good luck, and thanks for testing. :wink:

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Great, I will install and Test next weekend

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Plugin directory entry

Finally, I got in contact with the original author. For now, he has unarchived his repo, and it appears that ho doesn’t want to free up the name SubtaskDescription in the plugin directory.
I want and have to accept his decision, so for the moment, I don’t add my repo to the plugin directory. But we’ll see, if there are more upcoming bugs or feature requests, I will rename my repo/plugin to add it to the directory properly.

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Well, I think “SubTask Supplementary Notes” might be a nice Name for your fork :wink:
I wonder what Shaun-Fong’s plans might be.

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Could you please make the subtask descriptions searchable?

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When I use the plugin with the automatic action that adds a subtask when applying a category, I get this error:

Internal Error: SQL Error[HY000]: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'due_description' doesn't have a default value```
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You could use my own version, where some issues are fixed.

Download it from here.

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Hello Mr. Alfredb, adding descriptions to subtasks is an excellent feature. I noticed that your own version of the SubtaskDescription plugin also modifies the table structure of the subtasks table in the database and I guess this is required.

However, when I tried to create a task card with only a title and a subtask with only a title, an error was thrown: 1364 Field ‘due_description’ doesn’t have a default value.

I have no idea how to resolve this issue, so I have now restored the original structure of the subtasks table and removed the SubtaskDescription plugin, and everything works fine again. Is there any solution that allows me to use the SubtaskDescription plugin without error?

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Hi Yumiko,

I knew I heard this elsewhere some time back. :wink:

You can fix this by extending your file Mysql.php by adding function version_2() and increasing the schema version to 2. This should work.

const VERSION = 2;

function version_2(PDO $pdo)
{
    $pdo->exec("ALTER TABLE `subtasks` MODIFY COLUMN `due_description` TEXT");
}

Hope this helps.
abu

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Thank you very much. I think this modification will definitely solve the problem.

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