[Feature] Resume timer on existing task

[caarlos0]

[Feature] Resume timer on existing task

[maxRN]

Hi,
a resume timer feature would be highly appreciated!
My suggestion on how to implement this would be the following:

[
  {
    "desc": "something else",
    "workTimes": [
      {
        "start": time1,
        "end": time2
      },
      {
        "start": time1,
        "end": time2
      },
      {
        "start": time1,
        "end": time2
      }
    ]
  }
]

I would be down to try and implement this if you think this is a valid approach

[tomek-szczesny]

The approach that I suggested would not break backward compatibility, with only one field added (that may safely default to 0 if not present).
Otherwise one would have to implement format conversion as well, so the user files won't become useless after update.

[caarlos0]

feel free to take a swing at it, yes

[maxRN]

The approach that I suggested would not break backward compatibility, with only one field added (that may safely default to 0 if not present).

Otherwise one would have to implement format conversion as well, so the user files won't become useless after update.

Ah, of course you're right I totally missed that!

I'm having a little trouble understanding your proposed solution, though:
If I understand correctly: when we resume a task we take the delta between the current time and the end time and add this duration (in seconds) to the breakTime. And when we pause the task again we just update the end time and the new total is now the delta between end and start time, minus the breakTime in seconds?

[tomek-szczesny]

That is exactly what I had in mind. Sounds even better after you explained it back to me. :)

[jugglingjsons]

Resurrecting the thread, if anyone is interested in pursuing it a little further - there's a working version with task restarter here #127

Caution

Will work only on new projects, I haven't tested it with any old ones. As it changed the base structure of entities. Some exporters may not work either, but the report I use works fine.