Marcel van der Boom <[email protected]> writes: > On ma 20-jun-2011 19:37 > Bernt Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Should the first task in a subproject of a project >>> having the ':ORDERED:' property set to true be blocked from marking >>> 'DONE'? If so, why? >> >> I think the answer is yes it should be blocked because the entire tree >> is blocked - the previous task needs to be DONE first. When the >> subtree is unblocked you can then complete the first task in the >> subtree. > > Ok, to get the behaviour I want, I could remove the 'TODO' keyword > from the subproject. > > That will allow me to work on the subitems in parallel. Obvious > disadvantage is that the subproject as such can only have a > 'count' or 'percentage' but not a 'state' and thus cannot be tracked > anymore. > > Any other suggestions for a way to work on subitems in parallel with the > 'main tasks'? I'll spent some time digging if the wanted > behaviour could be formulated as an option to set without disturbing > the default behaviour.
You can work on things in parallel - you just can't mark them as completed. I clock in time on tasks I work on which changes TODO to STARTED and there is no restriction (that I'm aware of) on doing this. You can also force the task state to DONE with a triple prefix (C-u C-u C-u C-c C-t d) which will ignore the blocking rules for this state change. HTH, -- Bernt
