Filter by tasks by project

JohnnyG · Mar 25/2008 4:57 pm

I'm developing a small mobile app for Windows Mobile Smartphone to submit time on the go. I had three questions:

1. For speed sake, I only want to do one data request to prepopulate the projects and task list...but can't seem to get a cost effective API entry to FB to link the projects and tasks together (two dataset tables in .net).

I would like it when a user selects a project, i can immediately filter the tasks in the combobox below from in memory data.

I know that I could loop through and do a web request for project id retrieved, but that gets very cost and data intensive on the mobile client app for 20+ projects. Microsoft .Net allows me to due an in memory dataset merge if I could get some kind of column mappings table.

Is there any plans to add a "Task_ProjectsID" to the task.list response as an Multi-Valued attribute (i.e <Task_ProjectsID>3,4,5,6</Task_ProjectsID>)...or just a "primary key table" that links tasks and projects together.

2. If a task is not assigned to a project, but I submit a time entry with the project and task id (task id not assigned to project)...what happens?

3. Also, is there any plans to provide Web Service (w/SOAP and DISCO) in the future?

Thanks,
John

Fresh Daniel · Mar 25/2008 5:57 pm

Hi John,

Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. Those are really good questions to ask. I will have to put you in touch with Ben our API developer who can answer your questions in more detail. He's a little busy with our coming release at the moment, but he should be able get back to you on this soon. I apologize for the delay.

Cheers,

JohnnyG · Mar 26/2008 4:28 am

thanks

Fresh Ben · Mar 26/2008 2:58 pm

Hi John,

I'll try and answer your questions one at a time.

1) We don't have immediate plans to return project/task relationships like this, but I have to say it's pretty tight-looking, and I understand the upside, so we'll look into it.

2) It ought to throw an error, but right now it doesn't, which introduces some inconsistencies. I'm going to look at creating a fix shortly.

3) Pretty unlikely - at least, in the immediate future. We're more likely to offer alternative response formats (i.e. JSON) first.

BTW - Someone forwarded me your handy work a moment ago, and it looks really, really awesome.

- Ben

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