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Show task in Calendar
Etar only displays what's available in the in the Android database. Which tasks do you mean?
I have Baikal Server, un my phone DAVdroid + opentask, but Etar only show events, no show tasks rugiste red in my webdav calendar
I would also use this feature. A task with a deadline or start date should be visible in the calendar (as is in any calendaring solution I've ever seen). But I can imagine what Google did with that too...
opentask would need to export them into the calendar database, or we would need to add support for opentask. I would prefer the first version, as it would be more general.
(Personal comment: I have a server side script do do that, but but I use a special server as well).
This is related to a feature I wish calendar apps had: adding standalone reminders (ie, not tied to an event). You can approximate this with 0 length events but it's a poor substitute.
It seems to be better to put this functionality into the task app and have a calendar provider integrated there. (e. g. in OpenTasks. Therefore I propose to close this issue in Etar...
I do not get how this is supposed to work. CalDAV has the VEVENT and VTODO components. Per definition, events occupy time in the calendar, but tasks take no time on the calendar.
A VTODO can contain Start, Completed and Due date.
Should tasks be displayed in the calender when any of those properties are provided?
KOrganizer, what I use on desktop, displays only tasks with due date in the calendar views. They are shown at the due date/time of course. Start and Completed make no sense in this, so if a task has no due date, it will not be displayed at all.
TodoAgenda shows both tasks and calendar events, from android database(i think), the tasks are added using OpenTasks and synced to nextcloud server using caldav.
Could this be helpful? I also want a calendar app with tasks and calendar events.
Does Android Calendar Sync API support the "Reminders" that can be made in Google Calendar (web app and android app?
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r
If so then I can replace Google Calendar mobile app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.calendar with Etar. If not, then tasks/reminders are probably out of scope of Etar.
KOrganizer, what I use on desktop, displays only tasks with due date in the calendar views. They are shown at the due date/time of course. Start and Completed make no sense in this, so if a task has no due date, it will not be displayed at all.
Exactly. For instance, I've uploaded a picture of what tasks looks like in Korganizer in that issue.
Tasks (VTODO) should be shown on due date/time (and could take up a 15 minutes space so that you could read the tasks description a bit). Since there can be much more tasks than events in a given day, perhaps give the user the possibility to display tasks depending of the view type? For instance I would gladly display my tasks in the week, day and agenda views, but not in the month view.
I just discovered this. I just setup a NextCloud + DAVx5 + Etar + Tasks.org configuration and noticed that:
- NextCloud Calendar shows both events and tasks.
- Etar only displays events.
- Tasks only display tasks
Since NextCloud can display both events and tasks (I haven't tried their mobile app yet, only web), I'm sure it could be possible for Etar, however I don't know what complexity it will bring. Also since I'm able to have my events and tasks synced through my current configuration; having tasks and events separate in their own apps is fine however I wonder if it's possible to implement this feature.
@Senior-Discount I'm using almost the same setup with NextCloud+ DAVx5 + Etar + OpenTasks.
However while OpenTasks is very good to list and track your tasks, it fails at displaying a global view (Day/Week) to organize them all (but OpenTasks is not designed for this, Etar should be).
That view is pretty important when you have to make an appointment ; currently with Etar you can see 'free' spaces, however you have to switch to another app (OpenTasks) to check if you have any tasks in those free spaces.
This is not really handy, hence the feature request :>
I would love that feature as well.
I just noticed that both web / desktop calendars I use (thunderbird and nextcloud) display tasks with due dates in the calendar, while all android calendar apps I tested (google, simple calendar, etar) can't seem to display tasks. I believe to remember to have read somewhere that the task list thing is an extension to the CalDev standrad, so maybe that's the missing piece?
I was using todoist before, and managed to import those tasks into the google calendar app (maybe todoist converts them to "pure" CalDev in order to provide them...).
All in all I perceive this feature as pretty essential for anybody that uses tasks since having to check tasks and events in different apps is not only annoying, but also the cause of mis-planing or even missed events/deadlines if not diligently done.
Tasks.org android app can create calendar event when adding new task. Not ideal because if you have many calendars you have to select it manually for each task and also you get duplicate entries in other clients (thunderbird, nextcloud). But that's a workaround for me now. Nice thing is it updates the created event name with completed when you mark the task complete.
Just to mention: There's a pull request which adds OpenTasks support: #1279
