danniehansen / activity-timer

Activity timer powerup for Trello
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Exceeding card storage limit #98

Open danniehansen opened 1 year ago

danniehansen commented 1 year ago

Problem

Activity timer uses the built-in storage mechanism for powerups to store the time ranged on the card. Unfortunately, this can cause disruption at some point if you have too many unique trackings on the same card. At this point, tracking will stop working and then we're simply alerting the user of this.

The issue with this is that users may get a false sense of security with starting a tracking session, and then when wanting to finish it, it says that there isn't any more space available. Making it hard to backtrack what was tracked to then add this to a separate card or on the same card after cleaning up.

Proposal

Add in a tracker that will continue to measure the size of the Activity timer data on the card & actively alert the user when they're getting near the limit. This will allow them to monitor this & act upon it before it becomes a problem.

JM1581 commented 1 year ago

My team uses this to track their work. Our problem with the data storage limits are that we use the same cards that reopen on a yearly basis as they house each clients information that is also linked with some automation for our systems workflow. We are hitting this data limit threshold and what I have found would be useful is a clear function for more than just one card at a time. Currently, when the cards reach this threshold, I will have to go in and export the time for the board and then go in to the card and clear the data. Having the ability to clear the data from many cards at once as we use this to track utilization on a monthly basis would be grand.