On: Sunday, January 25 2015, Richard C wrote: […]Ok - I am confused. When you say 'you will see the effect of having sorted them' - how will this have been done[…]
This is very straightforward, don’t overthink it. In the All Tasks view, select a parent item that has multiple subtasks. Right click on the parent item, select Advanced and then Sort Subtasks. On the “Sorting” popup, select “caption” – Ascending for the first line. It does not matter much what if anything shows in the other three lines. Hit “OK”. The subtasks should immediately jump into alphabetical order. This is not caused by the view you are using. Rather, the subtasks have been actually moved in the outline to a new order that’s alphabetical. Incidentally, do you know what happens if you use the view Sort button in a hierarchical view. Does it sort the children of each parent into the specified order? The ‘Sort” in the main view definition sorts the top level of the items being displayed; in a hierarchical view no children are sorted. If I open up my All tasks view - which is a hierarchical view without any filters or sorting - the Sort Sub-tasks is ungreyed (what one would expect) but if I then apply a Show only those completed in the last 3 days filter, the Sort sub-tasks view is still ungreyed. Whereas, it is greyed in my All tasks (Recent completed) view which appears to have exactly the same set of filtering parameters. Very odd. I have several excellent explanations of this, following a little experimentation I find that none of them work. So I can conclusively say that I haven’t a clue of what’s going on. -Dwight -- 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/004201d039f7%2438d1e710%24aa75b530%24%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
