Re: [Evolution-hackers] Create task based on email

[Costin Cozan <costin webport de>]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 05:23, Not Zed wrote:
> creating tasks is one thing, creating links would be much much more
> difficult, as there is no remote abstraction for it at either end.

this morning, i was reading this thread when i suddenly realized that i
just had this problem: i needed to link a task with a contact and with
an email. Something that would go like this:

when i open the email, i should notice that a task is linked somehow,
and reverse, when i check the task to see to what exactly email it may
reference. The email is already pointing to the contact ( the From: ),
but the task not, so i have no other option to duplicate each time the
Name and the Telefon in the subject of the task. Moreon, when i open a
contact, i can't tell which tasks are related, except searching in the
task for his name.

As i am quite not so actual with the code of evolution, i don't know
what exactly such a "object" linking/referencing would imply. Let the
better ones speak their pro/contra arguments. In my view, such an
option/feature would be quite neat...i could be wrong too.

of course, this should not be seen as a replacement for a real request
tracker, but that would make at least me impressively productive, and
that's a very good point for the PHBs in my company to move on
linux/evolution.

have a nice day!
Costin Cozan

> 
> On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 11:30 +0000, DANIELLLANO wrote: 
> > Celso Pinto wrote:
> > > I really need a feature on Evolution that allows me to create a new task
> > > based on the contents of an email. 
> > > It should work like this: I receive an email, right-click with mouse on
> > > it, choose Create task and the "New task" Dialog pops up with the
> > > contents of the email on it's description field (only text). 
> > > One other way, yet harder, would be to implement some kind of "symlink"
> > > between a task and an email.
> > > 
> > > Because I want this available, I'm more than willing to do some coding,
> > > but I'm having some trouble finding out where to start, so I have some
> > > questions:
> > > 1) where can I find the "Task" struct?
> > > 2) how do I create a new task dialog? Should I signal some kind of
> > > Evolution service saying "i'd like to create a new task dialog and
> > > here's the contents" or can I execute some function that popup's up the
> > > New task-dialog?
> > > 3) Where can I find documentation about how the different pieces of
> > > evolution are put together, if there is one. Any UML?
> > > 
> > > I'd really appreciate it if anyone can help me with these questions.
> > 
> > I'm looking for something similar to this.
> > 
> > When I send an email (I start a thread or topic) I want evolution to keep
> > me informed to changes of that thread of tell me something if there's no
> > response in a period of time.
> > 
> > So, maybe what we need is some kind of tracker that can link emails with
> > tasks and the calendar.
> > 
> > 
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