Repeated tasks are being added“ 🏁 After the 'delete' field, the task status cannot be reset

[GLISHANG]

Please check that this issue hasn't been reported before.

• I searched previous Bug Reports didn't find any similar reports.

Expected Behavior

test1

• Delete my completed instance, leave my next instance 🔁 every day 🏁 delete ⏳ 2024-08-21

test2

• Delete my completed instance, leave my next instance 🔁 every day 🏁 delete ⏳ 2024-08-22
• [ ]

After the task is completed, the newly created task should be in an unfinished state.

Current behaviour

test1

• Delete my completed instance, leave my next instance 🔁 every day 🏁 delete ⏳ 2024-08-21

test2

• Delete my completed instance, leave my next instance 🔁 every day 🏁 delete ⏳ 2024-08-22
• [ ]

After the task is completed, the newly created task is in a completed state.

Steps to reproduce

Note from @claremacrae: the steps below are not relevant to this issue. They may relate to #3041.

1. Launch Obsidian Sandbox Vault
2. Enable Community Plugins
3. Install Tasks
4. Change "minimum match length for auto-suggest" to "1"
5. Restart Obsidian
6. In a new note, create a task with any title, type "du" and press enter to insert due date emoji from auto-suggest. Notice that the autosuggest box remains active.

Note from @claremacrae: I wrote up the reproduction steps in #3043 (comment)

Which Operating Systems are you using?

• Android
• iPhone/iPad
• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Obsidian Version

1.6.7

Tasks Plugin Version

7.9.0

Checks

• I have tried it with all other plugins disabled and the error still occurs

Possible solution

No response

[claremacrae]

Thanks, however there isn't enough information to reproduce the problem.

1. Please edit the description and include a screenshot of the problem result.
2. In the steps to complete, please edit them to say how exactly you are completing the task.

• In Tasks plugin search results?
• Clicking on the task in Live Preview?
• Clicking on the task in Reading Mode?

[claremacrae]

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Obsidian Sandbox Vault
2. Enable Community Plugins
3. Install Tasks
4. Change "minimum match length for auto-suggest" to "1"
5. Restart Obsidian
6. In a new note, create a task with any title, type "du" and press enter to insert due date emoji from auto-suggest. Notice that the autosuggest box remains active.

The above is nothing to do with the 🏁 delete option, and so will not be tracked here. Each issue needs to focus on one problem, please.

However, It looks similar to the following, which I have only been able to reproduce since updating to Obsidian 1.7.0.

• Auto-Suggest Remains open after Selection [with Obsidian Insider release 1.7.0] #3041

Obsidian Version

1.6.7

[claremacrae]

I suspect that the cause of this issue is the following in the Tasks plugin Live Preview code:

obsidian-tasks/src/Obsidian/LivePreviewExtension.ts

Lines 93 to 104 in 33efdee

	// Dirty workaround.
	// While the code in this method properly updates the `checked` state
	// of the target checkbox, some Obsidian internals revert the state.
	// This means that the checkbox would remain in its original `checked`
	// state (`true` or `false`), even though the underlying document
	// updates correctly.
	// As a "fix", we set the checkbox's `checked` state *again* after a
	// timeout to revert Obsidian's wrongful reversal.
	const desiredCheckedStatus = target.checked;
	setTimeout(() => {
	target.checked = desiredCheckedStatus;
	}, 1);

It probably needs to detect if the completed task has been discarded, and if so, not apply the workaround...

[GLISHANG]

Finally got the update, thank you very much. But I found some new problems.
In live preview mode, the task status can be reset normally in reading view, but it still does not work in editing view.

[claremacrae]

I am struggling to know how to explain to you what we need, but I will try one last time:

• “ it still does not work in editing view.”: “does not work” is useless information. We need to know exactly what happened.
• If you want someone to spend time helping you, we need a clear precise list steps to exactly and reliably reproduce what you did when the problem happened.
• One problem per Issue: create new issues for different topics

[materemias]

@claremacrae I think I can show a quick reproduction of the issue.
I am using Obsidian v1.7.3 with Tasks plugin v7.10.2

In edit mode/live preview if I complete a recurring task that was set to delete the original one on completion, the newly created task appears to be completed (actually it is still - [ ] in the background)

If I complete a similar tasks in reading mode, the newly created tasks is displayed to be in state todo properly.

I hope this helps

[claremacrae]

Thanks @materemias - I really appreciate your taking the time.

For future reference, we can't do anything with just screenshots...

So here is your video converted to a set of reproduction steps:

1. Paste the following line in to a Markdown note in Obsidian, with Tasks plugin v7.10.2 enabled:

   - [ ] #task Do stuff 🔁 every day 🏁 delete 📅 2024-10-04
   

2. Switch to Reading Mode

   Appearance:

   

3. Complete the task.

   New markdown is correct - there is only one task, and its date has been increased by 1:

   - [ ] #task Do stuff 🔁 every day 🏁 delete 📅 2024-10-05
   

   And the new rendered task is correct, as in, it is not checked:

   

4. Switch to Live Preview

   Appearance:

   

5. Complete the task:

   New markdown is correct - there is only one task, and its date has been increased by 1:

   - [ ] #task Do stuff 🔁 every day 🏁 delete 📅 2024-10-06
   

   New appearance is incorrect, in that the checkbox wrongly remains checked: