Dwight - my saviour. I was very much hoping you might show up. :^) 1. How do I build a view for tasks that are not in a project? I tried adding the Advanced filter of IsProject is false, but it only seems to remove the actual project name rows.
2. Please remind me how do I request a feature to be added? i.e. IsNextAction to be added to the advanced filter. It seems as strange omission. Many thanks J On Friday, 1 April 2016 16:50:20 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > OK, we discussed this a few months ago but I don't think you were ready > yet for that discussion. > > Short answer: no, you cannot make a single view with the contents you want > using MLO as currently implemented. > > Long answer: > There are a lot of "standard" filters including Actions, Hierarchy, > Completed, Text, Contexts, Flags, Start date and References. For the most > part these are on or off, or involve a simple, one-dimensional set of > choices. If you cannot accomplish what you want using these filters you can > use the Advanced filters where you get to build complex tests with logical > operations like OR AND & NOT, parentheses, and so on. > > The filters you called Standard are probably the Action filters, with > values All, Available, NextActions and Completed. These filters are very > useful, covering the most commonly used subsets of task status. From time > to time you need something that does not quite match up with the standard > values, and then you need to go to the Advanced Filters to build exactly > what you want. And here is the problem: There should be an advanced filter > IsNextAction, but there isn't. You can only get next actions using the > Actions filter, which does not allow for logical operations like OR. So you > cannot build a view for Next Actions OR tasks not in a project. On the > other hand, if it would help you, you can certainly build a view for next > actions and a view for tasks not in a project, and display the two views > side by side, or top over bottom. > > So, your choices are > 1. Request the implementation of an IsNextAction advanced filter and wait > for it to be implemented > 2. on a mobile device, create a half-screen widget for a Next Actions view > and a half-screen widget for tasks not in a project and display them > together on a single screen. > 3. on Windows, create two workspaces, one locked to a Next Actions view > and the other locked to a tasks-not-in-a-project view. In > tools>options>Behaviour turn on Allow Multiple Instances. Open two copies > of MLO. In one, open the Next Actions workspace and in the other open the > task-not-project workspace. Arrange the two windows on a single screen. > > On 4/1/2016 7:25 AM, J Smith wrote: > > UPDATE > > Okay after spending time on experimentation, I think I have now worked out > what each of the standard filters does. > > But I can't work out how to create a view that just show Next Actions and > tasks that are not part of a Project. > > i.e. I am trying to compress the full complexity of complex project but at > the same time not hide individual tasks that are not part of any formal > project. > > Any suggestions? > > J > > > On Friday, 1 April 2016 11:14:42 UTC+1, J Smith wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> I am just revisiting how MLO task filtering works at core. >> >> To be honest I am finding it extremely hard to get my head around the >> exact distinctions between: >> - Active >> - Available >> - Complete Tasks in Order >> - Next Action >> >> When I first joined MLO 18 months ago I found the help files to be too >> hard to understand and I eventually only got there only by experiment! >> And now 18 months later I've rather forgotten the distinctions. >> >> To save me (and anyone new) the time, has anyone done any good explainer >> videos yet? >> >> Many thanks >> >> J >> >> >> PS. Fwiw, I want to create a view that shows all my Next Actions of >> formal MLO Projects *and* any Tasks that are not part of any Project. >> i.e. It needs show tasks that are not part of a Project but hide any >> tasks that are part of MLO Projects which are not the NEXT Action. >> Also I want to hide tasks by putting them into the future (e.g. using >> Start Date). >> >> But I am now trying work out if there is a standard view that already >> does this... ! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- > 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 mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to mylifeo...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/811a7b6b-b982-4faf-95a8-80086a0463b5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/811a7b6b-b982-4faf-95a8-80086a0463b5%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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