[tw_gcal_sync] [Feature request] Use UDA for event duration?

[Petemir]

Hello once again!

Do you think it would be possible to use a user-defined attribute to specify the duration that a gcal event should have? Having a 1-hour default sometimes may take a lot of space in the calendar for some menial tasks.

Thanks!

pd: I think that even the taskwarrior "duration" datatype could be used with little work, as it uses the same format (ISO-8601) as the "duration" attribute of the calendar specification

[bergercookie]

Hi @Petemir ,

Yeah, sounds like a reasonable request. If you want to provide a patch, have at it, otherwise I 'll deal with it once I find some spare time :)

[bergercookie]

Hi @Petemir , this is implemented among some other work I had been doing in this branch: https://github.com/bergercookie/taskwarrior-syncall/tree/gkeep-fs

For now it's not available as a package since it requires this PR (https://github.com/ralphbean/taskw/pull/160) to be merged first.

I'll close this ticket once I merge it and have a package ready. Until then, if you wantto try it you have to checkout that branch and point the taskw reference in pyproject.toml to a locally downloaded version of taskw that uses my taskw remote (https://github.com/bergercookie/taskw)

[Petemir]

@bergercookie Sorry! Got caught up with the end of the semester :). I'll try to check it, thank you very much!

[bergercookie]

This should now work as part of v1.4.0. The package is renamed to syncall so you'll have to remove the previous one and install the new one like this:

pip3 uninstall taskwarrior-syncall && pip3 install --upgrade syncall

[bergercookie]

syncall is now aware of the twgcalsyncduration UDA:

To make it a bit more user friendly the user can also add the following section to their .taskrc:

uda.twgcalsyncduration.type=duration
uda.twgcalsyncduration.label=GCal duration

You can assign a custom duration to a taskwarrior task using something like the following:

# create a task ...

# Make this a 15min task
task <id> mod twgcalsyncduration:15M

Then on subsequent runs, it will create an event of the said duration in google calendar.

You can also edit the default event duration using the --default-event-duration-mins INTEGER flag (specify it in minutes)