Just to add that I have just found a partial workaround - which is to open a new window on the Day by Day view. This does remember which groups are open/closed independently of the main window - so I can drag and drop items from there to the same view in the main window. Its OK but one is constrained by the fact that there is only so much that one can do in a 'new window'.
On Friday, 30 August 2013 12:50:05 UTC+1, Richard C wrote: > At the moment, if you set up a Grouped view, you have for each a Group a > ‘The group is expanded’ tickbox. > > > > If this is selected, then when you switch to this view by double clicking > on a task, all the groups are expanded. > > > > If this is not selected, when you switch to the view by double clicking > on a task, all the groups except the one that the task in are collapsed. > > > > What I need is an option which doesn’t change the current expands when you > switch to the view, other than expanding the group that the task is in. > > > > Here’s why: > > > > I am increasingly using a Day by Day view as a quasi calendar view. This > groups tasks by Start Date and it works quite well (but I would love a view > which shows weeks, months, current day, etc and allows you to navigate by > these). > > > > Quite often as I am planning my work, I will working on a particular > day. This day will be the only day expanded in the outline. > > > > I will choose a task in that day and double click on it to see it in > context in the outline. I wlll then decide to move it to a different day > and change the date. > > > > When I switch back to my Day by Day view (by double clicking on the task > or by clicking on the workspace tab), the day I was working on has > collapsed and the day that I moved the task to has expanded. I don’t > have a problem with MLO expanding the day where the task has moved to but I > do have a problem with it collapsing the Day that I was working on because > a) I have to remember which day it was and b) find it and expand it. > > > > For me, I would like MLO to remember the expansion pattern in the view so > that when I return things are as I left them. If I tick the ‘This group > expanded’ tickbox, then all the groups are displayed expanded and I have no > idea where I am in the grouping list. > > > > Unless there is some hidden mechanism for achieving this, could we change > the tick box to a drop down with options: > > · Display expanded > > · Display collapsed > > · Don’t change > > > > Hmmm – in writing that it strikes me that the problem may be that MLO > probably doesn’t store the expand/contraction pattern when you switch away > from the view. Hopefully now that we have workspaces, this is something > that could be stored for each workspace (rather than each view). > > > > What do people think. > > > > Richard > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/d5ac01af-dbe6-45e2-a75e-afd80081f2a9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
