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Introduction

Software used to manage tasks/plannings/agenda (like Outlook, Lightning, Webcalendar, etc) can manage 3 different notions (normalized in norm RFC2445) that are:

• Event (event in the norm)
• Task (to-do in the norm)
• Journal (journal in the norm)

This 3 definitions are nearly similar but they are different terms and are used for different goals. This page describe the differences between each of them.

Event and rendez-vous (event)

An event (event in the norm), is something to define an action (a instant action or an action with a long duration that is in past or future).

Events has the folowwing properties:

• A label (In the norme ical: summary)
• A description (Dans la norme ical: description)
• A start date (Dans la norme ical: dtstart)
• Une date de fin (Dans la norme ical: dtend) ou une durée (Dans la norme ical: duration) mais c'est l'un ou l'autre et pas les deux.
• Un lieu, comme un nom de salle par exemple (Dans la norme ical: location)
• Une priorité (Dans la norme ical: priority)
• La transparence (dans la norme ical: transp) qui dit si les acteurs sont rendus indisponibles par cette tache.
• Un statut (tentative, confirmé ou annulé), rarement utilisé.
• D'autres informations moins structurantes.

Exemple d'utilisation: Cela correspond aux informations que l'on voit dans les calendrier Outlook (onglet Calendrier), Evolution ou Thunderbird/Lightning On utilise les "events" pour stocker les rendez-vous par exemple, mais peut aussi être utilisé pour stocker un travail à faire dans une plage de date donnée.

Into Dolibarr: This concept is managed by Module Agenda. Dolibarr has just added a percentage.

The tasks (to-do)

A task has the following properties:

• A label (In the ical norm: summary)
• A description (In the ical norm: description)
• A start date (In the ical norm: dtstart)
• An end date (In the ical norm: due) or a duration (In the ical norm: duration) but one or other not both.
• A percentage of accomplishment (In the ical norm: percent-complete).
• A priority (In the ical norm: priority).
• A status (running, confirmed or canceled)
• Other informations less important.

Example of use case: This is same thing that you can found into Outlook Tasks feature (tab Tasks), Evolution or Thunderbird/Lightning. We use then in most cases to manage projects.

Into Dolibarr: This concept is managed by Module Projects.

The journals (journal)

A journal entry is an information. It has following properties:

• A label
• A description
• An information date
• A location
• A status (draft, confirmed, deleted).
• Other information less important.

Example of use case: Manage a personal diary.

Into Dolibarr: This concept does not exists in any standard module provided with Dolibarr.