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Bug 91519 - Can't purge completed tasks
Summary: Can't purge completed tasks
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: contrib
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Tasklist (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Tim Lebedkov
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Reported: 2006-12-23 06:02 UTC by Torbjorn Norbye
Modified: 2007-01-08 08:20 UTC (History)
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Description Torbjorn Norbye 2006-12-23 06:02:21 UTC 
I have lots of tasks that I have marked as completed. How can I purge them? I
used to be able to right click on the Root node and say "Purge completed
subtasks. But there's no visible root anymore. I even click on a completed task
and say purge, but it doesn't have an effect since it only operates on subtasks.

Rather than reintroducing the root, I think this operation should be "Purge
Completed Tasks", and should not be node-specific; it should purge all completed
tasks. I don't think people are trying to do this on specific nodes anyway.
Comment 1 Tim Lebedkov 2006-12-25 17:12:53 UTC 
started
Comment 2 Tim Lebedkov 2006-12-25 17:26:34 UTC 
A small summary of how many tasks should be selected for an action to become
enabled (1 = exactly one, * = any number of tasks, 1+ = at least one):

new subtask...          first selected (also works if nothing is selected)
start                   1
pause                   *
show task               1
go to source            1
cut                     1+
copy                    1+
paste                   1
delete                  1+
move up                 1
move down               1
move left               1
move right	        1
search/filter...	*
remove filter           *
purge completed         1
clear percent complete  1
schedule                *
expand/collapse         *
export                  *
import                  *
properties              1+
Comment 3 Tim Lebedkov 2006-12-25 17:31:52 UTC 
And a summary of action contexts (sel = selected nodes, sel (deep) = selected
nodes and all subtasks at any level, task list = whole task list, view = only
changes the view):

new subtask...          sel
start                   sel
pause                   started task
show task               sel
go to source            sel
cut                     sel (deep)
copy                    sel (deep)
paste                   sel
delete                  sel (deep)
move up                 sel (deep)
move down               sel (deep)
move left               sel (deep)
move right	        sel (deep)
search/filter...	view
remove filter           view
purge completed         subtasks of the selected task
clear percent complete  sel (deep)
schedule                all open "User Tasks" windows
expand/collapse         view
export                  task list
import                  task list
properties              sel
Comment 4 Tim Lebedkov 2006-12-25 17:41:31 UTC 
it seems that the best would be to align the "purge" with other actions and let
it work on the selected tasks and all subtasks at any level. Than you would be
able to press Ctrl+A and choose "purge" from the local menu.
Comment 5 Tim Lebedkov 2007-01-08 08:19:58 UTC 
fixed