libRTMTasker

Library to allow Tasker to access and manipulate tasks in Remember the Milk

This library allows Tasker to interact with the RTM online todo list manager.
Using this library you can create and complete tasks, as well as interact with them in various ways.

Prerequisites

The following steps are required in order to use libRTMTasker.

1. You must get an api key from RTM see here RTM API
2. In Tasker, set the global variable RTM_API_KEY to the key value you recieved.
3. In Tasker, set the global variable RTM_SECRET to the secret value you recieved with your key.

First Use

RTM requires that you provide a token with each request. libRTMTasker handles that for you, however, you do need to authenticate your API KEY and generate a token first. This is a two step process that only needs to be done once (per device):

1. Create a task with a javascript action that looks like this:
   • Replace <path_to> with whatever folder you've downloaded the library to
   • Notice that in the "Path" field the value provided is just a local path whereas in the "Libraries" field the values provided are full URIs.
   • I would strongly recommend that you download the jQuery library to your device. Every function in libRTMTasker requires it, and downloading it will save you considerable time.
2. When you run the above task, it will open a browser window, and ask you to log into RTM. This will authenticate your API KEY.
   • If you don't log in succesfully on the first try, RTM does not preserve the validation request. You will need to go back and run the above task again rather then simply attempting to log in a second time.
3. Create and run a task with a javascript action that looks like this:
   • This will get a token from RTM and store it in Tasker.
4. That's it! You are now ready to use the library.

Usage

Each action provided by the library has an acompanying javascript file. In general, to use an action, you set some variables (described in "Required" and "Optional" in the docs below), and then execute a javascript action similar to this: .
Once that action has completed, it will set a variable (described in "Provides" below) that is then available to the rest of your tasker Task.

In the event of an error, the %rtm_error variable is set with information.

Available Functions

rtmGetTasks

Provides a list of tasks that conform to the filter provided. If no filter is provided the default is:

list:inbox AND status:incompleted AND dueBefore:tomorrow

Optional:
%filter - The filter to use when requesting tasks from RTM
Requires:
none
Provides:
%tasks - An array containing the tasks found. Tasker doesn't support multi-demensional arrays, so each task is encoded as a pipe (|) delimited string in the following order:

      id | name* | tags | # of notes | completed | priority | url* | 
      postponed | estimate | location_id | due | created | modified 

* these items are returned in url-encoded format. Use taskers "convert" functionality to decode them.

rtmGetLists

Provides a list of Lists available in RTM. This only returns active, non-smart, non-deleted lists.

Optional:
none
Required:
none
Provides:
%lists - An array of lists names. Tasker doesn't support multi-dimensional arrays, so each list is a pipe (|) delimited string in the following order:

       id | name

Note that the value returned is an array and the %ists1, %lists2, etc variables are populated.
However, due to the way Tasker converts array variables created in javascript, the base %lists variables is left undefined.

rtmAddTask

Adds a task to RTM using SmartAdd format. See here: RTM SmartAdd

Optional:
none
Required:
%newtask - A string, in SmartAdd format, containing a task to add to RTM
Provides:
%newtask_id - the ID of the task that was added

rtmCompleteTask

Marks a task "Complete"

Optional:
none
Required:
%task_id - the ID of the task to mark completed
Provides:
%completed_id - the ID of the task RTM marked completed (should usually match %task_id)

rtmUncompleteTask

Marks a task "incomplete"

Optional:
none
Required:
%task_id - the ID of the task to mark completed
Provides:
%uncompleted_id - the ID of the task RTM marked incompleted (should usually match %task_id)

Advanced

If you are comfortable with javascript, and prefer to use libRTMTasker in a scriptlet action, take a look at the rtmTasker.js file. It contains documentation on the functions that are available to you in that environment. Note, however, that unless you are very familiar with exactly how Tasker manages javascript variables, you may have trouble retrieving variables set in your javascriptlet for use in the rest of your task. This is especially true since this library already strains Taskers javascript compatibility in several ways.

Todo

This library is not yet complete the following is a partial list of features to come:

• Allow interaction with notes associated with tasks
• Create functions for editing various task properties after creation
• Shrink images in documentation :-)