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Add new ON_HOLD status type

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Fixes #3636

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Automated tests and exploratory testing the test vault

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@claremacrae claremacrae changed the title Adding ON_HOLD status type feat: Add new ON_HOLD status type Oct 13, 2025
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- It is `TODO`, `IN_PROGRESS` or `ON_HOLD`.
- And any of the tasks that **directly depend on it** are also `TODO`, `IN_PROGRESS` or `ON_HOLD`.
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We must make sure that there are tests of all the statements below about how ON_HOLD interacts with blocking/blocked.

I am presuming it behaves the same as for TODO and IN_PROGRESS but have not yet tested it.

@claremacrae claremacrae changed the base branch from feat-on-hold to main October 13, 2025 22:12
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Searching for the following regex throughout the whole repo shows a number of areas not yet considered:

(TODO|IN_PROGRESS|ON_HOLD|DONE|CANCELLED|NON_TASK)
  • There references in the docs to things like
    • If that next status is neither TODOnorIN_PROGRESS``
    • `When DONE is not followed by TODO or IN_PROGRESS
  • There are translation strings that need checking and maybe updating:
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I've edited this PR so that it seeks to merge in to obsidian-tasks-group:main instead of obsidian-tasks-group:feat-on-hold.

That would have happened because this PR was created from a branch off of the work we did last week on my machine....

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Add ON_HOLD as a Task Status Type

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