PowerTodoist-card: Lists, Kanbans, and much more

[TymoSF (Tym Peters)]

This is getting better with every version. Congratulations for making it out of beta!

It took me a little while to get the new configuration up and running (despite your excellent migration instructions) because I use the card both in a swipe-card configuration on one dashboard, and as a single card that updates dynamically based on a chosen project on another dashboard. [The following is for others who may have a similar setup.] The new ‘resource:’ line instead of ‘project_id’ in the sensor config did not like the use of an input_text sensor. Then I discovered resource_template, and it works like a charm. (Now I just need to map friendly names to project id’s.) The card updates within seconds of changing the project ID.

- platform: rest
  name: Selected Todoist Tasks
  unique_id: select_tasks
  method: GET
  resource_template: >
   https://api.todoist.com/api/v1/projects/{{states('input_text.todoist_project')}}/full

Here’s a preview:

Like another user observed, there is definitely an issue with word wrapping, though, as you can see above. I tried the card in both a Masonry-style and Section-style views with the card set to full width. This is not a problem for the majority of my projects, so I chose this extreme example to demonstrate. As a result, I have to scroll ALL the way over to the right to read the text or find the delete icons.

Is it perhaps a configuration error on my end, or do I just need to start using shorter comments in Todoist?

Potential feature request: I’m not sure if it’s possible with the API, but it would be awesome to pull tasks from multiple projects and filter by a common label. I tend to filter by label more often than sections.

More thanks for your hard work ‘stumbling’ through this - my favorite type of coding.

[pgr]

@narelle

Only problem I have is that the comments do not have line wrapping, so I have to make the card quite wide. This is up to me to manage - not something that is required for the card.

I made a new release (v1.1) today to fix this. Now item descriptions wrap.

@TymoSF

Potential feature request: I’m not sure if it’s possible with the API, but it would be awesome to pull tasks from multiple projects and filter by a common label. I tend to filter by label more often than sections.

I don’t think I will put this into the card, but I suppose it could be made by tweaking the sensor. I never tried it, but you should be able to create a template sensor (make sure you use the newer syntax, this changed a month ago) that aggregates the results from two or more rest sensors.

Set the card to use that new entity.

Then use the normal label filtering in the card to filter.

[druber]

I just found this and started using it. I love it, but I am running into some problems.

First, I am still seeing the line wrapping issue (v1.1.1 downloaded).

The next issue is that I can’t seem to get some of the actions to work at all.
For example, I have this:

cards:
  - type: custom:powertodoist-card
    entity: sensor.todoist_personal_main
    filter_section: Now
    show_item_add: true
    show_item_close: true
    show_item_delete: true
    show_item_description: true
    show_item_labels: true
    show_card_labels: true
    show_dates: true
    show_completed: 5
    use_quick_add: true
    sort_by_due_date: ascending
    date_format: ddd, mmm d, yyyy @h:MM TT
    actions_dbl_content:
      - add:
          - created from action
    icons:
      - checkbox-blank-outline
      - circle-medium
      - undo
      - trash-can
    filter_today_overdue: false

From the docs, it seems like double clicking on the content should quick-add a new item with contents = “created from action” (BTW - I had quotes around this, but saving the card seemed to remove them).
But it doesn’t seem to do anything when I double-click on the contents.

Just to make sure the double-click was registering, I changed it to:

cards:
  - type: custom:powertodoist-card
    .
    .
    .
    actions_dbl_content:
      - move

This worked (i.e. moved the item to the next section).

I was also had similar issues with update.

[pgr]

@druber

      - add:
          - created from action

Please fix the indent and try again:

      - add:
        - created from action

And check the creation in Todoist website, not just in the card. This ensures that you won’t miss it just because it isn’t being created within the card filter (project, section, label, etc).

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About the line wrap problem, can you please try a different browser? It is, most likely, an issue with Javascript refresh. It should fix itself after a while, or after forcing refreshes. The test with the different browser is a quick way to check if that is really the problem or not.

[druber]

Thanks for the quick response.
I fixed the indentation, but I still do not see the new item (checked on the Todoist website too).

For the wrapping issue, I checked in both chrome & edge. It seems to wrap the description properly, but not contents.

[pgr]

A new v1.1.2 version is out now, it should fix both issues.

Thanks