easy_task 0.0.8

A complete and easy to use task management system from the personal tasks to school and office works

Easy Task

This package is a todo like task manage system which allows users to create tasks and groups.

Terms

• Root level tasks: These are tasks that do not belong to any projects. They are used by the logged-in user when they want to keep tasks for themselves only. Not sharing with others.

Installation

Firestore Indexes

• tasks collection composit indexes
  • creator: asc and createdAt: desc is required.
  • project: asc and createdAt: desc is required.
  • parent: asc and createdAt: desc is required.
  • completed: asc and createdAt: desc is required.
  • child: asc and createdAt: desc is requierd.

Database Strucuture

Task document

• tasks is the collection. All the tasks (work items) goes in this collection.

• See the comment of the Task model class that has more details of each fields.

Logic

• Any body can create a task.

• A task can be

  • a task or
  • a project.

• When a task is being created, the user can choose it to be a project.

  • A root level task can be turned into a project.
  • But a project can not be turned into a task.

• A task may be (or may not be) assigned to a project.

• Task that is not assigned to a project is called root level task.

• Sign-in is required before using or accessing the task management system.

  • Anonymous login is okay.
  • This package does not provide anything for user authentication. You can develop your own.
  • See phone_sign_in package for sign-in that is built by the same developer of this package.

• Task is a work that can be managed and tracked.

  • It has priority. (NOT SUPPORTED, YET)
  • It may have due date. (NOT SUPPORTED, YET)
    • If the due date passes of an incomplete task, the task is highlighted and the tasks will be listed in Over due menu.
  • But it does not have any repeat.
    • It may have 'auto generate task every day/week/month/year' feature in the feature, but the task must not repeat.

• Each task has fields like below;

  • project: bool to know if it's a project or a task.
  • child: bool to know if it has a parent or not. If it's true, it belong to a project.

• Project is a task with a special purpose. It has project: true, while task has project: false. Think about it as a comment thread, A task can have children tasks. And the task that has children is called Project.

  • The Project information is saved as a task document, for the management purpose. So, in the list view, it will be listed together with other tasks.
  • Project can have many child tasks. Remember, Projects and tasks are saved in same tasks collection.

• A task can be assigned to other user (NOT supported, yet)

• A task can be moved to a project, and vice versa. ~~~~~

• In the list view, children tasks with child: true are not displayed.

• Group task is displayed together with other tasks in the same task list view.

  • Group task has no check box.
  • When the group task is clicked, it will display the details of it.

• User invitation is done by easyuser.

• Comment under each task is used by easy_comment package.

flowchart TD
Task_List-->Task_Create-->Task_Detail-->Task_Update-->Task_List
Task_List-->Task_Detail
Task_List-->Project_Detail
Task_Detail-->Task_List
Task_List-->Menu-->User_Group_List
User_Group_List-->Create_User_Group
User_Group_List-->View_User_Group-->Invite_Users_1
Project_Detail-->Project_Detail_Menu-->Invite_User_2
Project_Detail_Menu-->Invite_User_Group

Widgets

Task List Screen

• TaskService.instance.showTaskListScreen: Call this method to show the tasks of the user. This method will show TaskListScreen. For custom design, simply copy the TaskListScreen and edit it on your own.

TaskCount

Displaying number of tasks

• By default, it will display all the tasks under task collection including parent and child tasks, and projects.
• The params below can be combined
  • all: If this is set to true, it will only display no of tasks including parent and child tasks. Actually, all the document under the tasks will be returned.
  • child: If this is set to true, it will only display the no of child.
  • project: If this is set to true, it will display the no of project only. If it is false, only the no of tasks that are not project will be displayed.
  • completed: if this is true, only the no of completed tasks are displayed. If it is false, then it will display the no of not completed number.
  • rootLevelTasks: It displays the no of the root level tasks. It is simpley the combination of project: false and child: false.

Custom UI Design

To do custom UI design, you need to understand how easy_task works.

Known Issues