madhusudancs
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12 years ago @primalpop , I think there is some confusion with how the Pynt system is used with the task based approach. There is no real need to drop Textbook model. And Pynts and Textbooks together are not something that is causing the problem here I feel. There is a lock that holds people from not being able to claim the entire textbooks. This is the problem here, if at all there is one. PyTask was designed to be a robust task based system and then there was the textbook project which we thought could use PyTask with minimal modifications and it has been quite successful with that. The only thin you need to do at this point is to get rid of the lock that holds the Tasks and the textbooks together and let people to claim textbooks as a whole. If you really don't want to use the Pynts, you can decide to give some fixed uniform number of Pynts say 1 or 10 or 100 or whatever it is to all the textbooks and then bring up a page which has all the 1 Pynt (or 10 or 100) Pynts completed.
I can help you with removing the lock. Let me know what state the things are currently in, so that I can jump in.
With the present system of Pynts it has been difficult the track the progress of a participant and make payments. The idea is to assign an entire textbook to the participant and payment is made only on the completion of the book. Also the overhead of breaking down textbook into Pynts can be avoided.
Task model can be restructured into Textbook and the obsolete Textbook model can be dropped.