RE: [MLO] Feature request: when marking a recurring task completed, keep completed sub-tasks with completed copy of task

2011-02-05 Thread dwight 
Hi Richard.

Regarding your "one-off" scenario, I do not entirely follow what you are
saying but I do have a similar situation - Is this anything to do with your
request?

 

I have a recurring weekly task having to do with closing my office for the
week. There are a dozen or so subtasks. The recurring task is defined as a
project, with "reset all subtasks to uncompleted" and "Automatically recur
when all subtasks are complete" - I love the way that this works. Sometimes
I think of a new thing that needs to be added to the routine, like "fill
birdfeeder" and I stick in a new subtask, which will recur from now on. And
sometimes there's something I just want to remember to do once, like
"discard dead plant". Maybe this is like your one-off. So I will add it to
the project, and when I've finished the project I have to remember to go in
and delete it from next week's project. It would be great to have a way to
add in this subtask in a way that says, "when everything else recurs, do not
recur this task. If THAT's what you mean, and you put this up on uservoice,
I'll vote for it.

 

Regarding the missed daily task, if there is something I am supposed to do
daily and I miss a couple of days, there's a good chance that I have to do
it a few times to catch up, and it's helpful to have multiple occurrences.
If it does not really matter if I missed it or not, so long as it's in my
task list every day, I would do as Lisa suggested and have it recur one day
after each time it's completed. Or, if I really want to do it daily but I
miss a few days, I would right-click the task and select "skip occurrence"
then pick "skip all occurrences up to today" then perform today's task, mark
it complete, and the task will reoccur for tomorrow. 

-Dwight

 

From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
[mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 10:44 PM
To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MLO] Feature request: when marking a recurring task completed,
keep completed sub-tasks with completed copy of task

 

At 11:40 AM 2/5/2011, you wrote:



If you have a recurring task and then add (one-off) sub-tasks to it and then
mark these done followed by marking the recurring task done,  the completed
sub-tasks are left attached to the 'new' uncompleted task (assuming you
don't have the automatic resetting of sub-tasks enabled).   Logically, they
should be left attached to the completed copy (assuming you have this
enabled) as they were effectively completed as specific sub-tasks of that
particular instance of the recurring task.


How do you create one-off subtasks under a recurring task?  I thought the
recurrence applied to the tree...I suppose if you don't "inherit dates" it
could be seen either wayI'm confused but it's been a long day so it's
probably me :)




And whilst I am on the subject of recurring tasks, another minor annoyance
is that if you have a recurring task with a short recurring interval (eg
every day) and several days (say) have passed,  when you mark that task
completed,  the new occurrence should be set to the next occurrence after
the current date/time.


Are you looking for the already existing feature, "recur 1 day" (or X days)
after this task is completed?  I think this feature already exists and you
just have to choose it.

I have lots of recurrent tasks and I use both of these, in different ways.




Lisa

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Re: [MLO] Feature request: when marking a recurring task completed, keep completed sub-tasks with completed copy of task

2011-02-05 Thread Lisa Stroyan 

At 11:40 AM 2/5/2011, you wrote:
If you have a recurring task and then add (one-off) sub-tasks to it 
and then mark these done followed by marking the recurring task 
done,  the completed sub-tasks are left attached to the 'new' 
uncompleted task (assuming you don't have the automatic resetting of 
sub-tasks enabled).   Logically, they should be left attached to the 
completed copy (assuming you have this enabled) as they were 
effectively completed as specific sub-tasks of that particular 
instance of the recurring task.


How do you create one-off subtasks under a recurring task?  I thought 
the recurrence applied to the tree...I suppose if you don't "inherit 
dates" it could be seen either wayI'm confused but it's been a 
long day so it's probably me :)


And whilst I am on the subject of recurring tasks, another minor 
annoyance is that if you have a recurring task with a short 
recurring interval (eg every day) and several days (say) have 
passed,  when you mark that task completed,  the new occurrence 
should be set to the next occurrence after the current date/time.


Are you looking for the already existing feature, "recur 1 day" (or X 
days) after this task is completed?  I think this feature already 
exists and you just have to choose it.


I have lots of recurrent tasks and I use both of these, in different ways.


Lisa


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[MLO] Tabbed interface and new windows

2011-02-05 Thread Richard Collings 
Can I say how pleased I am to see this as one of the main features for the
next release.  I am assuming here that 'new window' will allow me to open
more than one window on the same MLO file and to drag and drop files from
one window to the other.

 

If it helps, I would happily wait for the calendar/gantt chart/forward
planning tool feature if this would facilitate the early release of a
version with the above capability.

 

Richard (just about to sit down to go through an inbox with a very large
number of tasks - it would be great to be able drag these into my work
planning hierarchy in a different window)

 



Richard Collings

Information Systems Consultant

 

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[MLO] Feature request: when marking a recurring task completed, keep completed sub-tasks with completed copy of task

2011-02-05 Thread Richard Collings 
If you have a recurring task and then add (one-off) sub-tasks to it and then
mark these done followed by marking the recurring task done,  the completed
sub-tasks are left attached to the 'new' uncompleted task (assuming you
don't have the automatic resetting of sub-tasks enabled).   Logically, they
should be left attached to the completed copy (assuming you have this
enabled) as they were effectively completed as specific sub-tasks of that
particular instance of the recurring task.

 

I can't see a reason for leaving them attached to new uncompleted task (but
no doubt somebody will pop up with a reason).   

 

Either way, could this behaviour be changed - either in all cases when the
above situation applies, or by providing an option 'Leave completed
sub-tasks attached to completed task' (in which case it could apply to all
instances so that you can see which specific tasks where completed as part
of that particular instance of the recurring task)

 

And whilst I am on the subject of recurring tasks, another minor annoyance
is that if you have a recurring task with a short recurring interval (eg
every day) and several days (say) have passed,  when you mark that task
completed,  the new occurrence should be set to the next occurrence after
the current date/time.

 

I cannot see why you want those additional intermediate occurrences .   But
if anybody does want to keep this behaviour can it be made an option -
another tick box:   'When marking completed, skip any occurrences in the
past' (or something similar)

 



Richard Collings

Information Systems Consultant

 

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