django-todo is a pluggable, multi-user, multi-group task management and
assignment application for Django, designed to be dropped into an existing site as a reusable app. django-todo can be used as a personal to-do tracker, or a group task management system, or a ticketing system for organizations (or all of these at once!)
**The best way to learn how django-todo works is to visit the live demo site at [django-todo.org](http://django-todo.org)!**
We assume that your organization has multiple groups of employees, each with multiple users (where actual users and groups map to Django Users and Groups). Users may belong to multiple groups, and each group can have multiple todo lists.
You must have at least one Group set up in Django admin, and that group must have at least one User as a member. This is true even if you're the sole user of django-todo.
File attachments of a few types are allowed on tasks by default. See settings to disable or to limit filetypes. If you are concerned about file sizes, limit them in your web server configuration (not currently handled separately by django-todo).
Comment threads can be added to tasks. Each participant in a thread receives email when new comments are added.
django-todo is auth-only. You must set up a login system and at least one group before deploying.
All tasks are "created by" the current user and can optionally be "assigned to" a specific user. Unassigned tickets appear as belonging to "anyone" in the UI.
django-todo v2 makes use of features only available in Django 2.0. It will not work in previous versions. v2 is only tested against Python 3.x -- no guarantees if running it against older versions.
django-todo is a Django app, not a project site. It needs a site to live in. You can either install it into an existing Django project site, or clone the django-todo [demo site (GTD)](https://github.com/shacker/gtd).
django-todo makes use of the Django `messages` system. Make sure you have something like [this](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/messages/#displaying-messages) (link) in your `base.html`.
The provided templates are fairly bare-bones, and are meant as starting points only. Unlike previous versions of django-todo, they now ship as Bootstrap examples, but feel free to override them - there is no hard dependency on Bootstrap. To override a template, create a `todo` folder in your project's `templates` dir, then copy the template you want to override from django-todo source and into that dir.
If you wish to use the public ticket-filing system, first create the list into which those tickets should be filed, then add its slug to `TODO_DEFAULT_LIST_SLUG` in settings (more on settings below).
django-todo has the ability to batch-import ("upsert") tasks from a specifically formatted CSV spreadsheet. This ability is provided through both a management command and a web interface.
Copy `todo/data/import_example.csv` to another location on your system and edit in a spreadsheet or directly.
**Do not edit the header row!**
The first four columns: `'Title', 'Group', 'Task List', 'Created By'` are required -- all others are optional and should work pretty much exactly like manual task entry via the web UI.
Note: Internally, Tasks are keyed to TaskLists, not to Groups (TaskLists are in Gruops). However, we request the Group in the CSV
because it's possible to have multiple TaskLists with the same name in different groups; i.e. we need it for namespacing and permissions.
### Import Rules
Because data entered via CSV is not going through the same view permissions enforced in the rest of django-todo, and to simplify data dependency logic, and to pre-empt disagreements between django-todo users, the importer will *not* create new users, groups, or task lists. All users, groups, and task lists referenced in your CSV must already exist, and group memberships must be correct.
Any validation error (e.g. unparse-able dates, incorrect group memberships) **will result in that row being skipped.**
A report of rows upserted and rows skipped (with line numbers and reasons) is provided at the end of the run.
### Upsert Logic
For each valid row, we need to decide whether to create a new task or update an existing one. django-todo matches on the unique combination of the four required columns. If we find a task that matches those, we *update* the rest of the columns. In other words, if you import a CSV once, then edit the Assigned To for a task and import it again, the original task will be updated with a new assignee (and same for the other columns).
Some views and URLs were renamed in 2.0 for logical consistency. If this affects you, see source code and the demo GTD site for reference to the new URL names.
**2.0.3** April 2018: Bump production status in setup.py
**2.0.2** April 2018: Improve notification email subjects and bodies
**2.0.1** April 2018: Refactored "toggle done" and "delete" actions from list view.
**2.0** April 2018: Major project refactor, with almost completely rewritten views, templates, and todo's first real test suite.
**1.6.2** Added support for unicode characters in list name/slugs.
**1.6.1** Minor bug fixes.
**1.6** Allow unassigned ("Anyone") tasks. Clean-up / modernize templates and views. Testing infrastructure in place.
**1.5** flake8 support, Item note no longer a required field, fix warnings for Django 1.8, Python 2/3-compatible unicode strings, simple search for tasks, get_absolute_url() for items.
**1.4** - Removed styling from default templates. Added excludes fields from Form definitions to prevent warnings. Removed deprecated 'cycle' tags from templates. Added settings for various elements for public ticket submissions.
**1.3** - Removed stray direct_to_template reference. Quoted all named URL references for Django 1.5 compatibility.
**1.2** - Added CSRF protection to all sample templates. Added integrated search function. Now showing the ratio of completed/total items for each
list. Better separation of media and templates. Cleaned up Item editing form (removed extraneous fields). Re-assigning tasks now properly limits
the list of assignees. Moved project to github.
**1.1** - Completion date was set properly when checking items off a list, but not when saving from an Item detail page. Added a save method on Item to
fix. Fixed documentation bug re: context_processors. Newly added comments are now emailed to everyone who has participated in a thread on a task.
**1.0.1** - When viewing a single task that you want to close, it's useful to be able to comment on and close a task at the same time. We were using
django-comments so these were different models in different views. Solution was to stop using django-comments and roll our own, then rewire the
view. Apologies if you were using a previous version - you may need to port over your comments to the new system.
**1.0.0** - Major upgrade to release version. Drag and drop task prioritization. E-mail notifications (now works more like a ticket system). More
attractive date picker. Bug fixes.
**0.9.5** - Fixed jquery bug when editing existing events - datepicker now shows correct date. Removed that damned Django pony from base template.
**0.9.4** - Replaced str with unicode in models. Fixed links back to lists in "My Tasks" view.
**0.9.3** - Missing link to the individual task editing view
**0.9.2** - Now fails gracefully when trying to add a 2nd list with the same name to the same group. - Due dates for tasks are now truly optional. -
Corrected datetime editing conflict when editing tasks - Max length of a task name has been raised from 60 to 140 chars. If upgrading, please
modify your database accordingly (field todo_item.name = maxlength 140). - Security: Users supplied with direct task URLs can no longer view/edit
tasks outside their group scope Same for list views - authorized views only. - Correct item and group counts on homepage (note - admin users see
django-todo 2.0 was rebuilt almost from the ground up, and included some radical changes, including model name changes. As a result, it is *not compatible* with data from django-todo 1.x. If you would like to upgrade an existing installation, try this:
* Use `./manage.py dumpdata todo --indent 4 > todo.json` to export your old todo data
* Edit the dump file, replacing the old model names `Item` and `List` with the new model names (`Task` and `TaskList`)
* Delete your existing todo data
* Uninstall the old todo app and reinstall
* Migrate, then use `./manage.py loaddata todo.json` to import the edited data
### Why not provide migrations?
That was the plan, but unfortunately, `makemigrations` created new tables and dropped the old ones, making this a destructive update. Renaming models is unfortunately not something `makemigrations` can do, and I really didn't want to keep the badly named original models. Sorry!
### Datepicker
django-todo no longer references a jQuery datepicker, but defaults to native html5 browser datepicker (not supported by Safari, unforunately). Feel free to implement one of your choosing.
### URLs
Some views and URLs were renamed for logical consistency. If this affects you, see source code and the demo GTD site for reference to the new URL names.