A card either sits in its owner's inbox (project_id AND status_id both NULL)
or belongs to exactly one project with a status in it (both set) -- enforced
by a CHECK constraint, never one without the other. The inbox is global to a
user now, not per-project: cards can move from a project into the inbox and
back into any status column of any project.
Backend
- migrations/009: rebuilds `cards` (SQLite can't relax NOT NULL / add a CHECK
in place) with a nullable project_id, a new owner_id (cards need direct
ownership once they can have no project), and the CHECK constraint. Cards
that had no status (the old per-project inbox) move to the new global inbox.
status_id's FK is now ON DELETE RESTRICT, not SET NULL -- nulling it alone
would violate the invariant, and there's no status-delete endpoint anyway.
- CardRepository: "column" is now (owner_id, project_id, status_id); every
method that dealt with a project's columns is generalised to also cover the
inbox and cross-project moves (orderColumn, idsInColumn, repack, ...).
- CardController/routes: single-card and ordering routes move to global,
since a card may have no project to nest them under --
GET/PATCH/DELETE /api/cards/{id}, PUT /api/cards/order (body now takes
project_id + status_id, both null for the inbox). New GET/POST
/api/inbox/cards. PATCH no longer accepts status_id -- moving a card, in or
out of a project, is exclusively PUT /api/cards/order now. A card created
directly in a project (POST /api/projects/{id}/cards) lands in its first
status, since a project card can't have no status.
- Tests: ProjectTest/CardStatusTest updated for the new routes; CardOrderTest
rewritten with full inbox/cross-project coverage. 57 tests pass.
Frontend
- New stores/inbox.ts (the global inbox) and lib/cardOrder.ts (the shared
PUT /api/cards/order call, used by both the sidebar and a project's board).
- AppSidebar: an Inbox section under the project list -- a vuedraggable list
in the same "kanban" drag group as every project's kanban columns, so a
card drags straight from the sidebar into whichever project is open, or
back out. (The empty-inbox state needed a real bugfix: it wasn't rendering
a <draggable> at all, so there was nowhere to drop a card back into an
empty inbox.) A drop reloads the inbox and, if a project is open, its cards.
- ProjectView's kanban board drops its synthetic Inbox column -- just the
real statuses now.
- DashboardView simplified to a plain grid of project tiles (name + card
count); its per-project "New" section is gone, since a project card can no
longer have no status.
- stores/cards.ts: patch/remove move to the global /api/cards/{id} routes.
Verified end-to-end against the rebuilt container (existing per-project-inbox
cards correctly migrated to the global inbox, 0 invariant violations) and the
dev server via headless Chrome: sidebar inbox -> project A "To do" -> back to
inbox -> project B "Done", full journey confirmed via the API at each step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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