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Defect #11426

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Filtering with Due Date in less than N days should show overdue issues

Added by Al McNicoll over 12 years ago. Updated almost 12 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Jean-Philippe Lang
Category:
Issues
Target version:
2.2.0
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Fixed
Affected version:
1.3.2

Description

I appreciate that this is similar to other requests about date ranges and so forth, but I believe it is a distinct issue.

We have an issues filter that shows items due in the next 14 days (we use it with the reminder emails plugin). The query includes a filter "Due Date" + "in less than" + "14 days".

Some items are overdue - that is, in my mind, they are due in -n days. As any negative integer is less than 14, my assumption was that they would be included - however they're not.

Is this expected behaviour? I appreciate that this may be a decision taken during development rather than a bug, but if so then I cannot see a way to include items that are overdue in the same query.

If this is expected behaviour, I suppose this could be merged with #3868 (it could be achieved with two filters combined with an OR operator), however I suspect that I'm not the only person who would think that -n < n in this respect.

Redmine 1.3.2, MySQL 5.5 backend.

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Related to Redmine - Patch #12257: German Translation for #11426Closed

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Has duplicate Redmine - Defect #12180: Due date filterin works in an unexpected wayClosed

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 #1

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 12 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed
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 #2

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 12 years ago

  • Subject changed from Due Date issues filter does not allow for negative values to Filtering with Due Date in less than N days should show overdue issues
  • Status changed from Confirmed to Closed
  • Assignee set to Jean-Philippe Lang
  • Target version set to 2.2.0
  • Resolution set to Fixed
Fixed in r10768. The behaviour of the existing filter was changed as you proposed and a new filter was added to specificaly filter dates in the N next days:
  • "in less than 3 days": [date] <= today + 3 days
  • "in the next 3 days": today <= [date] <= today + 3 days
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 #3

Updated by Egidijus Zideckas almost 12 years ago

-1. Let me explain why.

To my mind list of available date operators is too big, hard to figure out for inexperience user. This change makes it even bigger longer :(

I tried to figure out differences between two operators while making new labels translation, at first new filters seem just duplicates:
  • "less than days 3 ago" : today - 3 <= [date]
  • "in the past 3 days" : today - 3 <= [date] <= today
    Only after checking source code found this thin difference.

I'd stick with less but clear to understand list operators which are covering 95% of cases.

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Updated by Egidijus Zideckas almost 12 years ago

At least I propose to change names of operators:

  • "less than days 3 ago" => "later than 3 days ago"
  • "in less than 3 days" => "earlier than in 3 days"

Cheers!

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