Hi,Richard If l understand you correctly, the issue is not whether text and flag filters play well together. It's the need for the convenient and efficient ''text search" tool to access not only a task's own text but also the task's parent's text.
Would you agree that you can easily build a search that would find a task with "monitor" in its own text and a certain flag set? But to find a task with "linked" in it's parents text takes more complexity. As you mentioned, you could use the hierarchy filter. Or, you could make an advanced filter for "flag = YELLOW and ParentName contains Linked". But either of these approaches would lack the simplicity of the text Search. So, l think what you need is an option on the text search to look at parent text. -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Apr 30, 2014, Richard Collings <rich...@rcollings.co.uk> wrote: >I applied a filter to an outline view to restrict it to tasks with a >particular flag and I then typed something into the text filter box >that >matched text in the parent of one of the tasks that had the flag that I >was >filtering on. > > > >Result: blank list of tasks. > > > >This wasn't what I was expecting or hoping for - I wanted MLO to apply >the >text filter to all items in the outline view (including the parents), >not >just the items that matched the filter I had set. > > > >Reason: the parent was a project and this had the word that I was >searching for. I keep my task names short and generic (in this case: >'Monitor/Post' and the parent name was 'Linked In'. I was searching >for >Linked In') > > > >If I type a text filter that matches the text of the task that has the >flag, >that works as expected. > > > >Not sure whether this is working as expected. The Help for the Text >Filter >Control implies that it works on all items in the view, not just those >that >match the other filter criteria. > > > >I find the Text filtering very useful (despite being an early skeptic) >for >quickly finding a particular row (using the Ctrl+ L and Ctrl+Shift+L >combinations for applying/removing the filter) in a particular view so >this >is not desirable behaviour from my point view as often it is the parent >that >contains the differentiating information that I am searching for. > > > >PS: I realise that I could probably achieve the same result by applying >a >custom filter to parents only in the Show Hierarchy filter control but >this >is cumbersome for a one off quick search > > > >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/82851cdb-1a3a-47bb-a276-9b156f24da02%40katmail.1gravity.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
