Thank you, again, Ron for all your help! I'll hunker down and get my head around what you've provided. In retrospect, I see that I've been on automatic pilot on my understanding of the old version of MLO. As I said, I've just upgraded after letting it languish, clearly there have been some major improvements.
On Apr 26, 9:06 am, [email protected] wrote: > Your welcome, and your understanding of the "Active" Action Filter is > not correct. To borrow from MLO's Help, Filtering the To-Do List, > > "To be placed on the list of Active actions a task should meet all > criteria listed below: > > 1) task must not have subtasks or these subtasks should be completed > > 2) task must not have completed parent tasks > > 3) Start Date parameter for the task is not set or Start Date is today > or in the past > > 4) task must not have the option Hide only this task in To-Do List > checked > > 5) task must not have the option Hide branch in To-Do List checked for > this task as well as for any of its parents > > 6) If one of the task's parents has the option Complete subtasks in > order checked, this task must have all above siblings completed to be > placed to the list. Or these siblings might have Hide in To-Do option > set." > > You can also find the definitions of the other 4 Action Filters > (Available, Next Actions, Completed, All) there as well. > > The idea of the Active Action Filter is to only present in the To-Do > view those actions that can be acted upon right now. If a task has a > Start Date of tomorrow or later, the user has decided that he/she > doesn't want to be reminded of that particular task until that > designated start date. Thus, it is not an "active" task yet. Or, if a > task has a predecessor task that must be completed before it can be > begun, then that task will not be an "active" task until its > predecessor task has been completed. > > The Active Action Filter is very useful for presenting only those > items that are currently actionable. If you need a different view of > your tasks, you should investigate the other Action Filters to see if > they might meet your needs. > > Ron > > On Apr 26, 9:41 am, lywillows <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Ron, for your help...but I think I must be missing something > > else here. From a noobe perspective, one would assume that the Active > > items are those not completed and the All items would be completed and > > non completed. But alas, when I have my filter set to Active there > > are no items showing under this context, however, when I switch to All > > there are both completed and "Active" (if that is the right > > understanding of Active) albeit the active items are very old. This > > seems backwards to me... > > > I hope this makes sense... > > > On Apr 25, 7:14 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > No, you cannot view those particular tasks from this dialog box. To > > > view all of the tasks assigned to a particular context, go to the To- > > > Do view, select the desired context, and change the Action Filter from > > > Active to All. That should give you what you are looking for. > > > > Ron > > > > On Apr 25, 8:42 pm, Willi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > When I view Managed Contexts (F8) there are various contexts that have > > > > numbers of tasks assigned. Let's say one has 32 Tasks Assigned. Can I > > > > view those particular tasks from this dialog box? I don't seem to be > > > > able to bring it up. I have a feeling I have screwed something up and > > > > these are 'old' tasks....maybe completed? I just don't know. > > > > > I've had MLO for a while, but have just updated to new version to re- > > > > start my engines using MLO as I let it slide a bit. If I need to > > > > provide more information, please just let me know. > > > > > Thanks for any help you can offer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
