[nag] Nag Stage 6

Matt Powell matt@maintainnet.com
Mon, 21 May 2001 21:23:12 -0400




>Quoting rbarnett@neuromics.com:
>
>> I didn't expect that the schema itself would present much of a
>>challenge.Seems
>> to me that another column to record the position of a task would
>>besufficient.
>>  The tricky part is maintaining that value though.  Inserting a task into a
>> particular position could require renumbering all of the tasks after that
>> position and that could lead to unacceptable performance.  Maybe something
>> similar to the old BASIC trick of numbering lines by incrementing by 10
>>or 100
>> would minimize that.


Not to jump into a conversation halfway, as I just joined the list, but why
not use the time stamp of the due date combined with a priority ranking
assigned when the task is created to handle its postion?

if this is way off topic sorry.  I won't comment again till I catch up.



Matt Powell
MaintainNet Inc.