Postpone today/tomorrow button becomes inactive after selecting the option for the current date value

[chrabia]

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

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

Expected Behavior

When I click (by accident) for today's task to postpone it to today (or tomorrow's task to postpone it to tomorrow) nothing should happen

Current behaviour

When I click for today's task to postpone it to today (by accident, a misclick, when I actually wanted to postpone it to tomorrow let's say) then the postpone button freezes and you cannot click it in any way.

Steps to reproduce

1. Have a list of tasks with postpone button visible
2. Rightclick on the postpone button
3. If the task is due today click "due today", if the task is due tomorrow click "due tomorrow"
4. Postpone button will be unclickable now

Note from maintainer: See #2816 (comment) below for a full reproduction.

Which Operating Systems are you using?

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

Obsidian Version

1.5.12

Tasks Plugin Version

7.1.0

Checks

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

Possible solution

No response

[claremacrae]

Hi, I would like to be able to help with this, but I've read it several times and still don't understand.

Can you make it happen in the Sandbox vault?

[claremacrae]

As you have kindly contributed to this vault previously, I've created the reproduction here, rather than asking for it to be added....

Steps to reproduce

In a vault with Tasks installed and enabled....

1. Created a note, with any name
2. Paste in the following text to this note, using Shift + Ctrl + V/Shift + Command + V

# Issue #2816 Reproduction

## Task

- [ ] #task asdfsadfa 📅 2024-05-10

## Query

```tasks
path includes {{query.file.path}}
```

3. Edit the task's due date, changing it:
   • from: 2024-05-10
   • to: the current date
4. View the note in Reading mode
5. Right-click on the Postpone button - ⏩
6. Click on the menu item called 'Due today, on ... [today's date]`

Expected result:

• It should be still possible to click or right-click on the Postpone button on that task

Actual result

• The postpone button on that task is now inactive.

Workarounds

Anything that causes the Query to be redrawn

• Close and re-open the note containing the query
• Click on the task's Pencil icon and edit the task
• Edit any other task in the vault

[claremacrae]

Hi, I would like to be able to help with this, but I've read it several times and still don't understand.

Can you make it happen in the Sandbox vault?

Yes I can...

[claremacrae]

@chrabia, many thanks for finding and reporting this...
It's amazing that the Postpone feature has been out for nearly 5 months, and this is the first report... 😄

[chrabia]

Well, it's not really a major bug, there are workarounds as you mentioned (what might have dettered some people from reporting this) and to reproduce it you actually must be clumsy enough to make a misclick, as normally it doesn't make sense to postpone to the same date 🙃. But it happened to me a few times, when doing some kind of backlog refinement it's easier to do a misclick if you're moving a lot of tasks to other dates.

[claremacrae]

I’ve renamed this to clarify the problem.