Re: A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks

From: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Org-Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:02:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49831696.8030002@diplan.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B9150568-E659-4A3F-AFDE-535437A6EE21@newartisans.com>

John Wiegley schrieb:
> I've been wanting a simple method for managing dependent tasks for some
> time now, and only now did it occur to me that I could just implement a
> much simpler method using your current blocking mechanism.
> 
> The attached file, confusingly named org-depends.el, implements the
> following scheme:
> 
>  1. Any TODO which has incomplete child TODOs is blocked.
> 
>  2. If a parent TODO has the ORDERED property, it's children must be
>     completed in order.  Undone siblings block later siblings.
> 
>  3. Blocked items are greyed out in the agenda list.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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John Wiegley schrieb:
> I've been wanting a simple method for managing dependent tasks for some
> time now, and only now did it occur to me that I could just implement a
> much simpler method using your current blocking mechanism.
>
> The attached file, confusingly named org-depends.el, implements the
> following scheme:
>
>  1. Any TODO which has incomplete child TODOs is blocked.
>
>  2. If a parent TODO has the ORDERED property, it's children must be
>     completed in order.  Undone siblings block later siblings.
>
>  3. Blocked items are greyed out in the agenda list.
>
> John
>
>
>
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Excellent feature! Thanks a lot!
Unfortunately most of the times I do use this approach:

* TODO something [0/3]
  - [ ] part 1
  - [ ] part 2
  - [ ] part 3

I would like to get the blocking behavior for the checklist also.

"Any TODO which has incomplete child items is blocked."

Even better would additionally be something like:

"Any TODO having at least one item checked is allows the TODO to be set to the
next possible state, for me it would be 'INWORK'."

Any chance to get at least the blocker feature - the order feature would at
least for me be lower priority?

Rainer