Ability to duplicate tasks

[KatrinIhler]

I've thought a couple of times that it would be neat if we were able to do right-click -> "Duplicate Task" on an existing task to create a new task with all the same properties (project association, tags, description and so on).

This might be useful if the new task is very similar to the old one (e.g. same task for a different project, different day, ...), because you can just duplicate and then amend the new one slightly. And yes, I'm lazy. :D

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[johannesjo]

Just for reference: #2184 #1579

[KatrinIhler]

Just for reference: #2184 #1579

Ah dammit, overlooked that closed issue...

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[KatrinIhler]

Still relevant!

[wammar]

Just +1ing this because it's much needed.

[TeguSolutions]

+1

[RomanMIzulin]

+1, especially when working in schedule mode

[johannesjo]

Thank you @MikeTheSapien !!!

Most of the relevant code should be here:
https://github.com/johannesjo/super-productivity/tree/master/src/app/features/tasks
Having a look at addTask and other ngrx actions will probably help to understand the current code.

From the technical side I would start with listing the edge cases that need to be considered and possibly excluded (e.g. repeating task or issue task instances). Next step would be to add an ngrx action (and maybe add unit tests :)). For the list stuff you need to consider the project and tag reducers.

To wire up saving the data you would need to add the action to task-db.effects.ts.

As duplicating tasks potentially touches a lot of areas we need to test this very carefully :)

[johannesjo]

2. What do you mean by tag reducers?

tag.reducer.ts and project.reducer.ts

1. Should the edge cases to be considered be listed in this thread? Or some place else? Perhaps in Discussions thread?

If you think there is something we should discuss, then here in this thread is the right place I think. Alternatively, if it is more technical, we can also discuss stuff in your upcoming PR. Apart from that it is not necessary to document everything. Thank you for asking! That's very considerate!