CustomerCentrix

Problems with the current release 3.5.1a that we have installed:

1. Project name does not display in list of project tasks.
2. Project List does not display at all, nothing shows below the search box.
3. Project Task edit edit does not work, the form is cut off after Order field and the rest of the page fails to display.
4. Project Task dates do not save properly (or maybe it is displaying that is a problem). Either way, sometimes the dates change from what was saved.
5. Project Tasks do not display on the home page.

Number 1 was fixed by adding a single line of code to the end of the last function in modules/ProjectTask/ProjectTask.php as described here.

          $task_fields['PARENT_NAME'] = $this->parent_name;

Numbers 2 and 3 seem to be some kind of browser rendering issue. They happen in Firefox but not in IE. In Firefox, they only happen most of the time. Oddly, if you just reload the page repeatedly, eventually you will get a complete page. I'll use IE or reload as needed to get past this one.

Number 4 is also a bit inconsistent, in that it saves properly some of the time, and seems to shift the time in other cases. Not a showstopper, so I'll ignore for now.

The last one has a couple of problems that I have identified. The dates cause a bit of a problem here too, and this is one of the criteria for display on the Home page. The actual code that selects the tasks is in modules/ProjectTask/MyProjectTasks.php:

$where = "project_task.assigned_user_id='{$current_user->id}'"
. " AND (project_task.status IS NULL OR
(project_task.status!='Completed' AND project_task.status!='Deferred'))"
. " AND (project_task.date_start IS NULL OR
project_task.date_start <= '$today')";

I guess that this makes sense, just strange that you can't set the date to NULL since it shows as 1969 if you blank it out. The related issue is that there is no heading for the Close and Priority fields. Also, sorting by Priority sorts alphabetically and not by the expected High, Medium and Low (same as bugs).

Adding these lines somewhere in modules/ProjectTask/language/en_us.lang.php will fix the header:

          'LBL_LIST_CLOSE' => 'Close',
          'LBL_LIST_PRIORITY' => 'Priority',

The sort problem seems like more of a core issue since Bug lists do not work either. Seems that all of the enum data types sort alphabetically rather than as defined for the drop down. For some, like status, it doesn't matter much. But, priority certainly has an expected order. Admin, Dropdown editor works, although not as nicely as one would hope because sorting is done by key which you cannot edit. You can edit the value, but not the key of an existing dropdown item. This means that you could change the values so that they correspond to an unmatched key that would result in a sorted order, but that would be a very ugly solution. Instead, you can add new items and then delete all of the previously exiting ones. The new priorities look something like this:

Key Value

10 Urgent Urgent
20 High High
30 Medium Medium
40 Low Low
50 None None

The important part is that the key has something that will give you the desired sort. The drawback is that you now have to edit all of your existing tasks and choose a new priority.