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

[Costin Cozan <costin webport de>]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:02, Sarfraaz Ahmed wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:23 +0200, Costin Cozan wrote: 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> How about having the mail to be attached to the task and the subject
> of the mail used as the task summary ?? Having the information of
> where and how you created a particular object [ contact/task etc ]
> sounds more like the "beagle" project. 

well, that would be an option. But, i can tell from my experience, the
most customers are very confused about what they want and the
subject/content of email is far away from i am _really_ suppose to do
:)). But, I'm nitpicking here. 

Yes, that would be at least a start. 

> 
> 
> > 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
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