Hmmm - not sure that is going to work for me. To my mind the aim of any work management tool should be that one can enter activities into some sort of work breakdown structure and then use the tool to present those activities in an order that suits the work needs of that individual - ** without needing to restructure work breakdown structure***
My underlying requirement is to be able to manually reorder my task list to suit the particular requirements of the day. At the moment, I do this outside of MLO - at the beginning of the day I make a list of the top level tasks that I want to tackle and then put them into the order in which I want to tackle them during the day and then fiddle about in MLO in an unsatisfactory way to try and make it put those tasks into the same order. So I would like to be able to drag and drop in the To Do list view but without this moving things around in the Outline view. Two ways that this might be achieved that come to mind are: 1. To automatically add dependency links when one drops a task between two other tasks in the To Do list: ie the dropped task would be made a dependent of its new predecessor task in the list and the new successor task would be made dependent on the dropped task. It might be an idea to make this tasks 'auto links' and to provide a facility whereby they can all be stripped out (because the next day, you might want to do things in a different way) 2. To assign a fixed score to the dropped task which falls between the current scores for the predecessor and successor tasks. This score would remain fixed until: the urgency/importance value for the task or any of its parents is changed; or until a 'Clear all fixed scores' option is selected. These are just suggestions that I think would work for me. Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrey > Tkachuk (MLO) > Sent: 01 January 2009 8:54 a > To: MyLifeOrganized > Subject: [MLO] Re: Drag and Drop in To Do list - how does this work? > > > > yes this is how it works now. > > On Dec 31 2008, 11:24 pm, BOC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard - It will move the tasks in the outline view which > appears to > > be a problem if the task is nested under a parent/project (it will > > loose its association hence the warning). > > > > For example: I have a To-Do view where grouping is set to context. > > > > If I drag a regular task (NOT part of a project) up or down in the > > same context, nothing changes except where it is in the > list - higher > > or lower in both the to-do and outline views. This would > be the same > > as moving tasks up and down in the outline view. > > > > If I drag a task that is part of a project up or down in the same > > context, it will lose it's parent/project and be moved > up/down in the > > to-do and outline views. > > > > If I drag a regular task between grouped contexts, the context will > > change and it will be moved up/down in the outline > depending on where > > I drop the task. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/myLifeOrganized?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
