Synchronizing tasks between servers

A computing device, comprising:

• a processing unit;
• a system memory connected to the processing unit, the system memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to create:
• a publishing module that processes the publishing of one or more tasks associated with a project, each task having one or more attributes;
• a status module that processes updates to the one or more attributes for the one or more tasks;
• a mapping module that maps one or more attributes for the one or more tasks to corresponding task attributes used on an email program, the attributes used on the email program being a subset of the attributes for each of the one or more tasks;
• and
• a mailbox module that processes a notification from a server computer that a task that has been updated on the server computer and that initiates a process to obtain task attributes from the server computer for the task that is updated, the process using web services to obtain the task attributes,
• wherein, the mapping module maps one or more of the obtained task attributes to corresponding task attributes on the email program.

A computer-readable data storage medium, not being a signal, and having computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processing unit of a first server computer, cause the processing unit to:

• publish a project on the first server computer, the first server computer implementing a project management software program, the project comprising one or more tasks, each of the one or more tasks including one or more attributes;
• map attributes for at least one of the one or more project tasks to corresponding task attributes used on a mail server program on the second server computer, the task attributes used on the mail server program being a subset of the project task attributes;
• send task data for one or more project tasks from the first server computer to the second server computer, the mapped task attributes being sent to the second server computer using methods exposed by an application programming interface on the second server computer, the task data including the mapped task attributes for the one of the project tasks, the task data being sent to the second server computer using web services;
• receive a notification from the second server computer that a project task has been updated on the second server computer;
• after receiving a notification from the second server computer that a project task has been updated on the second server computer, send a request to the second server computer for the task attributes of the project task that has been updated on the second server computer;
• after sending a request to the second server computer for the task attributes of the project task that has been updated, receive the task attributes of the project task that has been updated from the second server computer;
• after receiving the task attributes of the project task that has been updated from the second server computer, determine whether the received task attributes of the project task are newer than task attributes for the project task stored on the first server computer, the determination of whether the received task attributes of the project task are newer than task attributes of the project task stored on the first server computer including comparing a timestamp for the received task attributes with a timestamp of the attributes of the project task stored on the first server computer;
• when it is determined that the received task attributes for the project task are newer than the task attributes for the project task stored on the first server computer, replace the task attributes of the project task stored on the first server computer with the received task attributes;
• update status for a task, the updating of task status comprising modifying one or more attributes for the task, the updating of task status being received via a project web access portal on the computing device;
• map one or more attributes for the task to corresponding task attributes used on a mail server program on a mailbox server;
• and
• using web services to send the one or more mapped attributes for the task to the mailbox server.