SG Ground Truth

duration write pin

Writing duration on a dependent Task does not pin it; a start_date write in the same run does. It keeps following the upstream, and a duration write upstream moves it.

API

Q Does writing duration on a dependent Task pin it, the way a date write does? What happens to its start_date/due_date, and does it still follow the upstream afterwards? Does writing duration on the upstream Task move its downstream Tasks?

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

Docs claim Silent, as for every scheduling field. entity_types/Task and probe 087 cover date writes on both ends of a chain; probe 093 covers nulling a dependent's dates. Neither writes duration alone.

Actual

The probe provisions everything: one Shot, four Tasks, two TaskDependency rows, all deleted on exit (read back: 0 Tasks, 0 Shots, 0 live TaskDependency rows).

up -FS-> down -FS-> down2; solo has no edge; every Task written 2026-03-02..03-03 (dur=960)
linked                          up 03-02..03-03  down 03-04..03-05  down2 03-06..03-09  solo 03-02..03-03
PUT solo duration=1920 (no edges)       -> 200   solo 03-02..03-05 dur=1920 pinned=False; chain unchanged
PUT down duration=1920 (dates left alone) -> 200
                                up 03-02..03-03  down 03-04..03-09 dur=1920  down2 03-10..03-11  pinned=False
PUT up due_date=03-10 (later)           -> 200
                                up 03-02..03-10  down 03-11..03-16 dur=1920  down2 03-17..03-18  pinned=False
PUT down pinned=false (already false)   -> 200, nothing changed
PUT up duration=2880 (upstream)         -> 200
                                up 03-02..03-09  down 03-10..03-13 dur=1920  down2 03-16..03-17  pinned=False
PUT down start_date=03-20 (control)     -> 200
                                up 03-02..03-09  down 03-20..03-25 dur=1920 pinned=True  down2 03-26..03-27
violation=False on every Task at every step

Teaches

write effect on the dependent (down)
duration alone on an unlinked Task (solo) pinned stays false; start_date kept, due_date stretches to hold the new duration
duration alone on down the same: pinned stays false, start_date kept (already the day after the upstream ends), due_date stretches
upstream moves later, after that down moves with it, duration held at 1920
duration on the upstream (up) up's due_date moves; down and down2 follow it, same as a date write (087)
start_date on down (control) pinned turns true; duration held, due_date moves; down2 follows
  • duration does not pin. In the same run a start_date write on down did. due_date was not written on the dependent here; that it pins too rests on entity_types/Task, 087 and 093.
  • On the dependent, a duration write keeps start_date and moves due_date, the same as on the unlinked solo. The dependent then keeps following its upstream.
  • down2 moved on every write that moved down, the duration-only write included: a dependent's own duration write cascades downstream. It stayed put on the no-op pinned=false write, where nothing moved.
  • Writing duration on the upstream end reschedules every unpinned downstream Task, so probe 087's date-based finding holds for duration too.

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