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I see no easy way to print my tasklist. Even a Copy operation grabbed more information than desirable so thats not a good way to print. The tasklist.ics file it text and I could filter it with a perl script, but the module should have some way of doing this for me.
would exporting your tasklist to HTML be pretty enough for you? You can already do that...
Sure. How do I do that?
I'm going off a little older version here, so someone might need to corect me here, but you should just be able to right click on the task list, then go to Export -> HTML.
That's correct - Export to HTML is available from any tasklist (suggestions, usertasks, bugs) context menu. Additional export filters can be plugged in if you want to pretty-print to some other format, like PDF or ASCII (I would like ASCII myself, but on the other hand, mozilla does a fine job converting html to ascii - the nice thing about having it supported directly is it could be automated - see my dev@tasklist proposal the other week about marking tasklist for auto-export, where a .html file is kept synchronized with the .ics file. Does Export fit your needs? Can I close this request or do you have some suggestion for how to change the UI to make it more intuitive without making it more cluttered?
I tried right clicking but wasn't over a current task and the context menu didn't have an export. I did it again and exported html. It doesn't seem like this action should be dependent on the mouse being over a specific task. Also, when asked if I wanted to view the html it tried to start a new netscape rather than use my existing one. Is this something you have control over or is this a ``feature'' of the extbrowser module? One further note, when I viewed the html it had not been saved with the current sort order of my task list. So I'll still need to edit the html to print the exact tasklist I was viewing.
There are two export formats: Konqueror, and "Visible Columns". You must have selected the first one (Konqueror). The second format attempts to export exactly what you're seeing on the screen: the same task attributes (e.g. those columns you've made visible), the same sort order. It even offers to export the icons (this is more useful when you export the Suggestions View for a large directory scan than for the user task view). I've made two fixes: - Added "Export" to the context menu which is shown when you don't click on a task - Made "HTML (visible columns)" the first entry in the Export submenu for user tasks, such that it's more likely to be chosen than the Konqueror format. And yes, the Netscape behavior is a limitation of the extbrowser module I think. I hope there's an issue tracking that. I've recently switched my extbrowser preference over to the "Command Line" browser, which invokes openmoz - it integrates well with mozilla - I have it set up to open a new tab instead of a new window.
By the way, this was fixed in version 1.5 of the tasklist/usertasks module; both in the trunk (for NB 4.0) and the dev35 branch (for NB 3.5).