Linux-bug fixed. Easy install with this new and final version 1.2.2; click and play! The goal for this extension is to have an easy way during meetings to create tasks in a to-do list and manage them afterwards. It presumes that you make minutes and would like to generate a task list during meetings with ease and manage them.

When there is a task that has to be done by you, you activate the macro (through a keystroke or by using the menu). A window box than comes up, where you can fill in the subject of the task, the due dat and some other details. The macro also records in the background the filename if you were making minutes at the moment, the current date and a paragraph selected with text (hopefully related to that action). If no text is selected, no text is recorded.
Afterwards you can call a report, from a database called TakenDB.odb, from within Writer. It gives all the unfinished tasks, sorted on priority. That database also contains other useful reports, which you can use if you open the database with Open Office Base. The database also contains a form where you can browse through all the tasks and make changes.

Remarks:

• Linux and other -X users be sure to use version 1.2.2, Windows users can use 1.2.1 as well. In this version of the the extension the task database (TakenDB.odb) and the explanation (Readmefirst.odt) are included and handled by Minutes2Tasks
• The supplied Readmefirst.odt (click on the help sign!) tells you how to install and to use this extension
• I've used a lot of code of Writer's Tool and Toools. They are great. Thanks.

This extension should work for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86-64). I haven't tested it on OSX or other flavours of Unix, but these should be working as well. A nasty bug (at least on one of my Linux-boxes) is fixed. This was an error with the Readmefirst-file.

Support is provided at http://sourceforge.net/projects/minutes2tasks/forums/.
Updating from from the versions before 1.0.12 requires a new TakenDB.odb, which is supplied in the .oxt.
My experience is that earlier installed extensions can mess up the workings of this extension. The solution is to delete or rename your user profile:

• For Windows users:
  Before Vista: \Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\OpenOffice.org\3\user\
  From Vista: \Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user
• For GNU/Linux users:
  /home/user name/.openoffice.org/3/user
  /home/user name/.ooo3/ for OOo 3.x.x
• For Mac users:
  /Users/user name/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice.org/3/user

This is the final version; only bugs will be solved.

Version: 1.2.2

Provider: Joop Verdoorn

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