Yes, this works. The key missing step was the "Save" button at the bottom
of the filter pane.
The need to explicitly save a named view seems counterintuitive from a UI
standpoint. Possibly it will make more sense to me as I get more
experience in MLO.
>From Andrey's response, it sounds like it is related to having conflicts
with the same named view across tabs, where each tab could have a different
setting for the view. However, I would simply expect the current state of
the view+filter to be saved to the export file, based on the tab I am
right-clicking on the view from.
Having it instead save an "empty" version of the view wasn't what I was
expecting. I've got it now...
No immediate need to change this behavior, it is somewhere way, way below
"IMAP email" functionality and "Calendar functionality" on my MLO wish
list. :-)
James
On Thursday, November 28, 2013 2:03:23 AM UTC-8, Andrey Tkachuk (MLO) wrote:
>
> >If someone here knows how to export a view and save its filter
> >settings so they get imported with the view, please share this info.
> Yes I know :)
>
> Please make sure before the export that your current view is saved (not
> modified). As you know you can modify a view in each Workspace (tab) and as
> a result each tab could have own modified copy of the view. If a view is
> modified the asterisk singe is placed before the view name in the outline
> (i.e. "*All Tasks". If you want this modified view to be available for all
> tabs you should Save it (a button in the bottom of filter pane) or you can
> reset modified view to the initial state ("Reset view").
>
> When you export a view, only common saved copy of the view is exported. If
> view is saved all the settings you see for the view are exported to the XML
> and can be imported to other file. In this case the view will be exactly
> the same in the other file.
>
> Import/Export views is the only way to share your views across different
> files. The views are not synced via wifi or cloud.
>
> Please confirm if Import/Export of the views works for you now.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrey.
>
> On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:10:08 AM UTC+2, James D wrote:
>>
>> I'm speaking for the *Windows* version of MLO....
>>
>> The answer to your question is NO, that custom views are NOT propagated
>> to other files, in my experience. Then I found the Import/Export
>> functionality for Views...
>>
>> In MLO there is a feature to save and export Views. I thought I could
>> use this to save views I created If you right-click on a view, and select
>> "Export View(s)..." MLO lets you "save" a view, e.g., from my "Work" MLO
>> file.
>> However, when I then used the corresponding "Import View(s)..." feature
>> in my "Personal" MLO file, the views did indeed import, BUT with the issue
>> that the *filter* settings for the views did NOT come across into the new
>> file.
>> This makes the Import/Export of views essentially useless. So, I wind up
>> having to recreate my custom Views in each separate MLO file.
>>
>> If someone here knows how to export a view and save its filter settings
>> so they get imported with the view, please share this info. (Or can confirm
>> this is a known bug/issue)
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:59:27 AM UTC-8, kitus wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello J Daniels,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your response. Very interesting conclusions. What about
>>> custom views? are they kept across devices (aka, synced with CloudSync)?
>>> What about the rest of user customizations.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On 14 Nov 2013, at 00:14, J Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just came back to MLO after a couple years away.
>>> I use DropBox for my files (home and work) and then use MLO Cloud to
>>> sync.
>>> So far this setup seems to be working out fine.
>>> I use the "C: drive" file location of Dropbox, so MLO-Windows is writing
>>> to that.
>>> Offhand, it looks like the things I "lose" with this setup are the UI
>>> elements:
>>>
>>> - Custom Views
>>> - Workspaces
>>>
>>> I can understand these design choices from the standpoint of each file
>>> is on a different device that may have different capabilities (# of
>>> monitors, screen resolution) and each device may also have a different
>>> "context", e.g., one at home, and one at work, where you want to see
>>> different things.
>>> So the "Work" MLO file would be set up with the custom views &
>>> workspaces for work, and the "Home/Personal" MLO file would be set up with
>>> custom views for things you want to see and work on when at home.
>>>
>>>
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