Urgency doesn't take into account priority

[zaphodb2002]

Please check that this issue hasn't been reported before.

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Expected Behavior

Tasks with higher priority should be receiving more urgency according to the documentation.

Current behaviour

If I make 4 tasks, no dates, and set each to a different priority, they are all assigned the same urgency (1.95) as if they had no priority.

Steps to reproduce

Add the following content to a file titled "Test":

- [ ] 🔽 Totally unimportant thing
- [ ] ⏫ Thing
- [ ] 🔼 Less important thing
- [ ] Even Less Important Thing


```tasks
path includes Test
show urgency

All tasks will show 1.95 urgency.

Which Operating Systems are you using?

• Android
• iPhone/iPad
• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Obsidian Version

1.1.16

Tasks Plugin Version

2.0.0

Checks

• I have tried it with all other plugins disabled and the error still occurs

Possible solution

I'll pull the source and see if I can fix this. I see in Urgency.ts that it should be assigning the priority correctly but the switch statement has no default, so if the priority isn't reading correctly you'd never know. First step is to get an error catch in there for when it's not one of the expected values, then figure out why it's not.

[claremacrae]

Hi, you haven't shown a screenshot, but I can see what is going on.

Seeing the problem

If, in your Tasks results, you click the Edit /pencil icon, you will see that none of your tasks has a priority value, and that the icons appear at the start of the description.

Please see this section in the docs for the reason why:

https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/getting-started/auto-suggest/#what-do-i-need-to-know-about-the-order-of-items-in-a-task

Fixing your tasks

If you move the Priority icons to after the descriptive text, the priorities will be loaded and the scores will differ, as documented in the table in:

https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/advanced/urgency/#how-urgency-is-calculated

[claremacrae]

No action is needed, Tasks is behaving as currently intended - and as documented.

[zaphodb2002]

@claremacrae For future reference, this is the same as issue #1505 , yes? I'll go take a look at that one.

[claremacrae]

@claremacrae For future reference, this is the same as issue #1505 , yes? I'll go take a look at that one.

Thank you... Yes, that's the one. I'm not sure if you're thinking of working on that, but I'll reply over in that issue, anyway...

[zaphodb2002]

@claremacrae thanks, just wanted to make sure there was a link here to that in case someone else found this ticket looking for my issue. I will indeed see what I can do about that other issue.

[claremacrae]

So I will close this one, as it adds no actions above what you have already identified in #1505.