SG Ground Truth

null dates unpin

A Task with no upstream never pins, on a null or a real date write; nulling its dates leaves its downstream unmoved, and pinned:false refills nothing.

API

Q For a Task with no upstream edge, does clearing start_date/due_date pin it the way 093 found for a dependent, does PUT {"pinned": false} afterwards fill the nulls back in, what wins when the nulls and pinned: false are sent in one PUT, and do its downstream Tasks move? Controls: a real date write on the same Tasks, reading pinned and the downstream back.

Endpoint PUT /entity/tasks/<id> ; POST /entity/tasks/_search

Docs claim Silent, as for 087 and 093. pinned is untyped beyond checkbox.

Actual

iso: no edges at all, created 03-02..03-03. Every PUT below answered 200.
PUT iso start=null due=null -> iso None..None dur=960 pinned=False violation=False
PUT iso pinned=false        -> iso None..None dur=960 pinned=False   <- no change, nothing to recompute
PUT iso {start=null,due=null,pinned=false} in ONE put
                            -> iso None..None dur=960 pinned=False   <- same as the null alone
PUT iso start=03-09 due=03-10 (control)
                            -> iso 03-09..03-10 dur=960 pinned=False <- a real date does not pin it either

root -FS-> down, both written 03-02..03-03, down scheduled to 03-04..03-05
PUT root start=null due=null
                     -> root None..None  down 03-04..03-05 (unmoved) pinned=False both
PUT root pinned=false
                     -> root None..None  down 03-04..03-05 (unmoved) pinned=False   <- root never refills
PUT root {start=null,due=null,pinned=false} in ONE put
                     -> root None..None  down 03-04..03-05 (unmoved) pinned=False
PUT root start=03-09 due=03-10 (control)
                     -> root 03-09..03-10 pinned=False  down 03-11..03-12 (moved) pinned=False

left clean: 0 zzprobe_097 Tasks, the TaskDependency row gone

Teaches

the Task after a date write
no edges, dates set null pinned stays false; a null write only pins a Task that has an upstream (093, entity_types/Task)
no edges, real dates pinned stays false
upstream-only (has downstream, no upstream), null or real dates pinned stays false
its finish-to-start downstream unmoved by the null write; moved by the real one (03-11..03-12), as in 087
  • Only a Task with an upstream pins on a date write. Here neither a null nor a real date write set pinned on a Task with no upstream, with or without a downstream. 087 and 093 measured the pin on dependents.
  • PUT {"pinned": false} on a Task that was already false is a no-op: the nulls survive it. No fallback anchor filled them: not duration, not a project date, not today.
  • Sending the nulls and pinned: false in one PUT read back the same as the nulls alone.
  • A null upstream leaves the downstream's stored dates where they were; the next real date write on the same upstream moves it again. The edge still schedules; a null gives it nothing to schedule from.
  • A client that wants a Task to go back to "server picks the date" has no move here: clearing a root Task's dates is a dead end, not a pending state. It stays null/null until something writes a real date onto it.

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