View Your tasks in Voo2do with Ubiquity

Posted by Steve Oxley on February 2, 2009 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

OK, Tom officially got me hooked. After his little blog post about Ubiquity and writing a command, I had to check it out for myself. It wasn’t too hard to get an idea – I use a handy little web-site called voo2do and I’ve been thinking about messing with their API for a while. Well, now I got my chance. I wrote a simple little Ubiquity script to show you your pending tasks and learned a LOT in the process! Currently, you have to be logged in for it to work (otherwise it will just tell you you’ve got “0″ tasks pending). Here’s the code:


CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
  name: "view-tasks",
  homepage: "http://stevenoxley.blogspot.com/",
  author: { name: "Steven Oxley", email: "steven.aj.oxley at gmail.com"},
  contributors: ["Steven Oxley"],
  license: "GPL",
  description: "Looks up your pending tasks on the website at http://voo2do.com.",
  help: "You can wait to see a list of your tasks in the preview area or hit enter to go to the voo2do website.",

  preview: function( pblock ) {
  	var template =  "<i>You have <b>${tasks.length}</b> tasks pending.</i>" +
		"<ul>" +
        	    "{for task in tasks}" +
			"{if typeof task == \"object\"}" +
				"<li>${task.getAttribute(\"taskdesc\")}</li>" +
			"{/if}" +
		    "{forelse}" +
			"<li>You don't have any pending tasks</li>" +
		    "{/for}" +
		"</ul>";
    pblock.innerHTML = "Views your pending Voo2do tasks";
  	  this._getTasks( pblock, template );
  },

  _getTasks: function( previewBlock, template ) {
  	var baseUrl = "http://voo2do.com/api/getIncompleteTasks";
    CmdUtils.previewGet( previewBlock, baseUrl, function( returnedTasks ) {
      var tasklist = returnedTasks.getElementsByTagName("task");
      previewBlock.innerHTML =
            CmdUtils.renderTemplate( template, {tasks: tasklist} );
    })
  },

  execute: function() {
  	var url = "http://voo2do.com/tasks";
  	Utils.openUrlInBrowser(url);
  }
});

And here is my subscriptions page if you have any desire to subscribe to this particular Ubiquity command: http://www.andrews.edu/~sajo/ubiquity-scripts/. Try it for yourself, it’s fun!

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