BUG: "Due Tasks Have Highest Priority" option does not affect priority sorting

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How to reproduce:

* Activate the option: Tools/Preferences, Tasks/Attribute Calculations, [x] Treat due tasks as having the highest priority
* Create new list
* Create at least 2 tasks (say, "A" and "B")
* Set one with a lower priority (A is 5, B is 3)
* Set the same with a Due Date of today (B is due now)
* Sort by Priority
=> A is still above B, even though B, being due now, should have highest priority and beat even priority 10

I would expect the due task to be the first in the list. If there were other due tasks, I would expect priority level to be the sorting criteria among them.

This used to work in 6.x. No idea when it changed since I jumped from 6.x to the latest 7.x a week ago.

[.dan.g.]

Welcome OOM

Can you modify the default 'Introduction.tdl' to show the problem and attach it and your preferences here please?

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I looked for that TDL since it was mentioned in the "how to report" post, but it doesn't exist in the latest public version... I only have an old version of it from 2013, from my previous version of the software.

[.dan.g.]

>> I only have an old version of it from 2013

That will be fine, I just need a tasklist from you (and your preferences file) that exhibits the issue.

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There you go! Screenshot for reference, attached TDL+INI for testing.

[.dan.g.]

Many thanks that's very helpful.

[OOM]

I noticed something else: it actually works as intended if the due date is PAST.

Current Date = 2019/06/20
Due Date = 2019/06/20 => Task is not highest priority
Due Date = 2019/06/19 (or less) => Task IS highest priority

As such, past due dates are sorted as if they were above Priority 10, which is as expected.

[.dan.g.]

Yes, there's a bug in the interplay between 'Overdue' and 'Due Today'. I hope to have a fix out soon.

[.dan.g.]

Fixed in 7.2.14?

On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 10:15:23 UTC+10, OOM wrote:

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Sorry for the time it took me. I got stuck trying to download the new version. Check For Update didn't detect anything, and I was stubbornly trying to reach abstractspoon.com which timed out on me. Just now I realized there's a link to the download in your signature *facepalm*.
As an aside, what *is* the official website for Todolist?

Either way, yes, problem solved. Thank you so much!


Le lundi 1 juillet 2019 02:58:04 UTC+2, .dan.g. a écrit :

Fixed in 7.2.14?

[.dan.g.]

My bad, I was messing around with my website during the week : www.abstractspoon.com

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Website still not working, but I suspect it's my work proxy. Yeah, confirmed, my phone can access it, so no worries there.

That said, the due date priority thing is not entirely fixed. I found a few special cases where behaviour is not as it used to be.

What works :

* Past due date, anywhere

* Due today, at the root only

What doesn't work: Due today on a subtask, any level.

In the "This is a task" group, it appears DUE TODAY does take precedence over its sibling. So it's a problem where the due date priority is not sent up the hierarchy anymore.

[.dan.g.]

Thx Manning.

Could you also confirm (again) exactly what you are expecting to see with that subtask?

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"Manning"? :)

OK, first reminder: this only matters when option "Treat due tasks as having the highest priority" is active. I read this option as meaning "due tasks will have priority 11" and possibly "past due tasks have priority 12". In my experience, it's been the behavior in older versions.

I'm also talking about option "Display a task's priority/risk as being the highest of its and all its subtasks' priorities/risk" being active (I don't think I mentioned that, sorry!):

With this, I expect a subtask with due date to have priority 11, and make all its parents have priority 11.

I think the "highest priority" option works. Among siblings, a task due today will be priority 11.

The other option seems to be ignored for "due today" but still works when due date is past.

Below is a "now/wished for" illustration.

As an example, task "This is a task" is parent to a "DUE TODAY" task which is... due today :).

The good: it's placed above a priority 7 sibling in spite of being, officially, a priority 5.

The bad: "This is a task" does not inherit from "DUE TODAY". It's still placed below a priority 9 sibling.

You can see that behavior for all the other parent tasks I've highlighted. The only one that behaves correctly is "Adding Comments to Tasks", because its child is *past* the due date, thus it inherits highest priority and gets placed among the other highest priority root tasks.

Phew! Hopefully that explains things. I'm available for clarifications :)