Suggestion: Add more placeholders to user defined tools

[Nico S]

Hi Dan,

would it be possible to add more placeholders for the arguments field of the user defined tools?

There are $(todolist) $(seltid) $(seltallocto) and so on, but I´m missing some of them, e.g. the path of a task within the tasklist structure (just like the last column of a generated timelog file shows).

Really, really nice would be of course, if every field of a task could beused as a placeholder :-)

Thanks for consideration!

Br

Nico

[.dan.g.]

Hi Nico

I only add specifically requested features otherwise it's more work for me with no guarantee anyone will use it.

Can you give a specific example of how you will use the task path?

[Nico S]

Hi Dan,

I fully understand that. Just placing my wishes (and even Santa isn´t able to fulfill everyone of them) ;-)

OK, my usecase is:

Basically I want to replace/extend the implemented time logging function via an Autohotkey script.

Therefore I want to add the lines to the existing task log csv file by my own script, as the task time log dialogue seems not easy remote controllable (.g. via commandline options). 

I can have all my used field contents available, only the task path is missing. 

What I want to achieve is a more convienient way to log the times of tasks and actions I´m working on at work.

So my planned workflow would be:

- Creating a task with the work/project task

- after finishing the work, I just want to click once to get a simple input form, where i can enter a short comment and the time it took.

- as soon as I close this form, my script would then add the line to log file with the time and comment (just like your time log form does right now) and additionally should add the comment line and time to the tasks comment filed (so I could see a history within the task itself without having to open the log file (which I need further for monthly reports) and then closes the task itself .

Currently I think, I can achieve everything from "outside" with an AHK script, but only I can't fill the path filed...

Hope, you could follow my thoughts :-)

Of course it would be also nice, if you could extend the task log dialoge directly (I had suggestions placed earlier), but I thought it is  more complicated for you to implement than having an additional placeholder - and I do the rest for myself :-)

(in that case you consider to extend the taks log window, that would be e.g.:

- add a checkbox like "add comments text and time to task comment" (see also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/abstractspoon-todolist-support/feature-requests/mN6EFFvOjIo) 

- add a checkbox "close task" (see also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/abstractspoon-todolist-support/feature-requests/BBgjuvP47IU)

Thanks a lot!

Br

Nico