@littleggghost one thing you might want to try is updating the celerity map. You may be missing the custom css rules to style the deadline appropriately. I’m not familiar enough with the phorge docker image to be able to tell you exactly how that is accomplished. With non-containerized phorge instances you would just run bin/celerity map from within the phorge root directory.

I run this cmd in this docker container, with output:

root@f0d9837493f0:/var/www/phorge/phorge# ./bin/celerity map
Rebuilding 1 resource source(s).
Rebuilding resource source "phabricator" (CelerityPhabricatorResources)...
Found 113 binary resources.
Found 399 text resources.
Found 11 packages.
Writing map "resources/celerity/map.php".
Done.

After I restart the docker service, and create new task with due date and subtypes deadline, still only shows "DEADLINE".

I use a docker image from https://hub.docker.com/r/buddyspencer/phorge/tags
Though this image is not official, but It updated last month.

When I search in

resources/celerity/map.php

It shows

Pattern not found: deadline

@littleggghost So it turns out that in order to enable this feature, there was a patch to Phabricator core. That patch isn't part of the wikimedia extension, and hasn't been merged into phorge.

The original commit is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPHABae334e4589a0413c1eb8a9e8d993e553bfeff478

I will propose upstreaming that patch into Phorge but in the meantime you can apply the patch to your version if you would like to have the functionality sooner:

And here is a plain patch file that should apply cleanly to phorge master currently:

I tried with only merge this commit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPHABae334e4589a0413c1eb8a9e8d993e553bfeff478
but still not work.

One of the file is different from this old commit version:
{F1443940}

now in the newest commit is:

public function newSubtypeObject() {
  $subtype_key = $this->getEditEngineSubtype();
  $subtype_map = $this->newEditEngineSubtypeMap();
  return $subtype_map->getSubtype($subtype_key);
}

What I running is:

public function newSubtypeObject() {
  $subtype_key = $this->getEditEngineSubtype();
  $subtype_map = $this->newEditEngineSubtypeMap();
  // return $subtype_map->getSubtype($subtype_key);
  $subtype_obj = idx($subtype_map, $subtype_key);
  return $subtype_obj->setObject($this);
}

Also, file

This looks correct to me:

public function newSubtypeObject() {
  $subtype_key = $this->getEditEngineSubtype();
  $subtype_map = $this->newEditEngineSubtypeMap();
  // return $subtype_map->getSubtype($subtype_key);
  $subtype_obj = idx($subtype_map, $subtype_key);
  return $subtype_obj->setObject($this);
}

And it's what my patch file should have given you. Not sure why the patch upload isn't working, maybe a bug in Ponder.

When you apply this patch on clean phorge master branch, did the calendar icon shows? Because mine not shows.
Maybe there needs some other patches?
Or I should wait your official repository upstream?
For sooner implementation, I want to know if I could try some more methods before wait.

@littleggghost: Yes after applying the patch to phorge master branch I can see the icon.

For it to appear, the task has to be set to deadline subtype:

And it has to have a value in the due date field, then you should see the icon in list view, on workboards, and in task detail view:

Maybe the Ponder has some issue about file uploads, I can't see the file but only {F.......}, I guess is some screenshots.

I will try it without docker, and I wish the Ponder could be fixed, or maybe some other way or outside links to show those invisible files.

By the way, if only have the patch can work, or should also install the Wikimedia extension?

You still need the wikimedia extension at least for now. The screenshots just show how to change the subtype of a task and then shows the due date icon. I just changed the permissions on the attachments, maybe they work now?

Sure, that's a permission issue, I can see the pics now.

Did you manage to get the extension working?

I'm glad to tell you I succeed in docker!
Maybe I changed some codes wrong before, so I delete the phorge folder in docker and copy a clean verion inside.

The key is:

1. Clean phorge codes from github (or official)
2. Do the patch you supply
3. Install the wikimedia extension
4. new task with due date checked and the subtype is deadline

Awesome! I'm glad it finally worked. If you want all of your tasks to have the 'deadline' subtype you can edit your task form to set the subtype (or create a separate form that sets the subtype) that way you don't have to manually change the type of each task after it's created.

Very thanks for your timely reply! Yes I tried change the form and it works.
And I just thought it would be great if I could change the calendar icon to a pie chart or progress bar.

I am glad that the Phabricator/Phorge project can continue, and I hope to have more features that will be helpful for productivity in the future!