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Provides migrations, seeds, models, events, artisan commands, and jobs to support task management.

Overview

Tasks are to-do items to be completed by or for their Owners (polymorphic relationship). Tasks are described by their TaskType (Task belongsTo a TaskType) and their status is denoted by a TaskStatus (Task belongsTo a TaskStatus).

As of version 2.2.0 you can define a task router to route a user virtually anywhere when they go to the url of a task (see tasks.router middleware below). Also as of 2.2.0, you can apply global scopes to tasks in config/tasks.php (see Configuration below).

Versions

Laravel	Sirs\Tasks
11.0	11.0
10.0	10.0
9.0	9.0
6.0	4.*
5.7	4.0
5.5 - 5.6	3.x	4.0
5.1 - 5.4	3.x
5.0	1.3.x

Installation

composer require sirs/tasks Note: specify version 1.3.0 for Laravel 5.0.x
If you are not auto-detecting service providers add Sirs\Tasks\TasksServiceProvider::class, to config/app.php
Vendor Publish to get the config file, migrations, default seeders, and default TaskRouter.
Add your seeders to DatabaseSeeder.php.
Any models that will be task owners must implement Sirs\Tasks\Interfaces\TaskOwner which can be satisfied by using Sirs\Tasks\TaskOwnerTraits
Create EloquentResources for your TaskOwner models. (optional)

Upgrading

to 9.0.0

In order to use the published factories, you must create a corresponding model in your application that extends the package model.

3.x to 4.0.0

get a fresh config and set it up.

If you have specified a fractal transform for a task owner you should replace it with an Eloquent Resource (see Task Owners below).

2.2 to 2.3

You will need to add the following to your tasks config to make these items work:
```
 'ui'=>[
   'chrome'=>'app'
 ],
```
You will also have to do a global search and replace due to a renamed task route:

route('taskShow’, should be replaced with route('tasks.show’,

Configuration

Customize TaskType and TaskStatus seeders to fit your project. Then update the config as needed. The config options are:

apiPrefix: route prefix for the task api routes. Defaults to 'api'
routeGroup: route group for task routes. defaults to `['middleware' => ['auth','tasks.redirect']]`
owner_transformers: map of ownerTypeClass=>ownerTypeTransformerClass where transformer class is a Fractal Transformer. Defaults to empty array;
global_scopes: Array of global scopes to apply to the Task model. Defaults to empty array
taskToAction: A map of TaskType->slug => action. See config/tasks.php for examples
router: Task router class name for use with tasks.router middleware. Defaults to published App\TaskRouter::class,

bindings.models: use your own models that adhere to the relevant interfaces setting this. Example

...
  'bindings' => [
    'models' => [
      'Task' => \App\Task::class,             // where \App\Task implements \Sirs\Tasks\Interfaces\Task
      'TaskType' => \App\TaskType::class,     // where \App\Task implements \Sirs\Tasks\Interfaces\TaskType
      'TaskStatus' => \App\TaskStatus::class, // where \App\Task implements \Sirs\Tasks\Interfaces\TaskStatus
    ]
  ],
...

tasks.router middleware

protected $routeMiddleware = [
...
        'tasks.redirect' => \Sirs\Tasks\Middleware\RedirectTasks::class,
]

Customize your taskActions map in config/tasks.php:

    'taskToAction'=>[
      /** examples:
       * 'task-slug' => 'action_type:slugOrIdentifier'
       * 'survey-task' => 'survey:surveySlug',
       * 'schedule-appt-task' => 'appointment:apptTypeId',
       * 'redirect-to-url' => 'url:/path/to/thing'
       * 'custom-task' => 'custom:someIdentifier'
       **/
    ],

TaskRouter class' resolve function in TaskRouter.php if you need custom task routing functionality:

  public function resolve(Task $task){
      $taskToAction = config('tasks.taskToAction');
      if( !isset($taskToAction[$task->taskType->slug]) ) return null;

      list($type, $identifier) = preg_split('/:/', $taskToAction[$task->taskType->slug]);

      switch ($type) {
        case 'survey':
          return url('app-participant/'.$task->owner->identifier.'/survey/'.$identifier);
        case 'appointment':
          $url = 'appointments/create?appointment_type_id='.$identifier.'&attendee_id='.$task->owner->identifier;
          switch ($identifier) {
            case 2:
              // $forTask = $task->owner->tasks->where('task_type_id', 1)->first();
              break;              
            default:
              $forTask = null;
              break;
          }
          $url = ( $forTask ) ? $url.'&task_id='.$forTask->identifier : $url;
          return url($url);
        case 'url':
          return url($identifier);
        default:
          return null;
          break;
      }
  }

This function should return a url for use in the Laravel redirect() helper function or null for default routing.

Even if you've mapped a task type to an action above you can bypass the router by adding bypassRouter=1 to the tasks url. For example I can force task 383 to go the default task form with the url: /tasks/383?bypassRouter=1

As of version 2.3.9 the middleware will pass query string attributes on the original task url.

Example task type of task 123 routes to /monkeys: http::project/tasks/123/food=fruit&drink=coffee will redirect to http::project/monkeys?food=fruit&drink=coffee

Task Events

Task lifecycle events are built on top of models events.

Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskStarted
Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskCompleted
Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskCanceled
Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskDataUpdated
Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskCreated
Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskStatusUpdated (deprecated)
Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskWasCreated (deprecated)
Sirs\Tasks\Events\TaskStatusWasUpdated (deprecated)

TaskTypeWorkflowStrategy

To help consolidate task lifecycle logic you can now create workflow strategy classes that allow you to write event handling code for all events fired by the sirs/tasks package.

TaskTypeWorkflowStrategy should live in app/Tasks and are constructed with the task and the event, and have methods corresponding to each of the TaskEvent types:

TaskStarted -> TaskTypeWorkflowStrategy::started
TaskDataUpdated - TaskTypeWorkflowStrategy::taskDataUpdated

Stubs for these files can be generated using the command:

php artisan tasks:workflow [task-type-slug|all]

Using all in place of a task-type-slug will generate Workflow strategy classes for all task types.

TaskTypeWorkflowStrategies are optional and do not need to be created for a task type.

Commands

AutocancelTask - sets task status to task auto-canceled
CancelTask - sets task status to canceled
CompleteTask - sets task status to completed
FailTask - sets task status to failed
MissTask - sets task status to missed
StartTask - sets date_started timestamp
UpdateTaskStatus (deprecated use task->update())
CreateTask (deprecated use Task::create(...))
DeleteTask (deprecated use task->delete())

Task Owners

Models that will be task owners must implement Sirs\Tasks\Interfaces\TaskOwner. This is easily accomplished by using the `Sirs\Tasks\TaskOwnerTraits` trait on the model and giving the model a fullName method that returns the full name of the owner. TaskOwnerTraits gives the model a hasMany relationship to tasks.

You can optionally define a Eloquent Resource for task owner in the configuration:

...
"owner_resources" => [
  User::class => MyUserResource::class
]
...

Task management screens

Version 2.3 introduces basic task management screens that allow users view tasks and update tasks statuses and due dates outside of task related forms.

These screens are at

Default task form

As of Version 2.3 there is now default task form.

The form asks whether the task is complete, and allows the user to set a status or leave the task pending if it is not complete.

The route

Task REST API

REST API Controllers for tasks, types, and statuses.

Who do I talk to?

TJ Ward - jward3@email.unc.edu

sirs / tasks

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