Ok. The broader context to this is that I have a number of 'Tasks' which are really folders (but can't be, because folders don't appear in the ToDo view) where I put lower priority tasks to consider doing at particular points in the day/week.
What I want is for this top level folder/task (eg 'Review early evening tasks') to appear in my general view which is a vanilla Active Tasks view (with the 'Include closed contexts' box not ticked. Therefore the key requirement for me (which I didn't mention previously) is that the solution needs to work with the Active filter because I don't want to fiddle about with the filter on this view To put it another way, I want a mechanism that allows me to mark a task with 'Do not make the children of this task active' There are two reasons for wanting the parent to appear and not the children: a) so as not to clutter my main view with the smaller, lower priority tasks which tend to end up in these folders b) so that I can tick the 'Review early evening tasks' (which is a recurring task) done without needing to navigate to the Outline view (and then back again) And I then want another view, which I can navigate to, to review these tasks. It feels to me that this might not be an unusual requirement - effectively to say to MLO: don't go any lower than this task when considering what to make active in this branch of the tree (the tasks below here are just memoranda) And I still can't get tasks marked with 'Hide the branch in the ToDo' to appear in the 'All' view Richard On Jan 17, 5:02 pm, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 11:06 AM 1/16/2010, you wrote: > > >I have a number of MLO tasks which I use as place holders and under > >which I add various tasks to do at that particular time. > > I'm sure there is a way to get this to do what you want, but if you > tell us the goal, there might be a much cleaner implementation if you > are willing to experiment. Are you trying to have different > "contexts" (not MLO contexts, but different categories of work that > you switch between?) Or is it time-based? Can you clarify your work model? > > > > >I would like to just see the top level task in my normal working > >view but then be able to switch to another view where I can see the > >sub-tasks but I can't find a way of doing this. > > Have you tried your various ideas below but with the top-level task > as a project? It seems then you could do a project view, and a > context view. If you make the project into a Context as well, then > you can have those items pick up the parent context, and have the > views based on context instead of TopLevelParent. > > > If I use a closed context to hide the sub-tasks in the working > > view (which doesn't show tasks where the context is closed), then > > the parent task does not appear in the Working View (even thought > > it doesn't have the closed context assigned) > > Have you tried doing this with the Action Filter set to All? Because > a task that has incomplete subtasks is not Active, I don't think. > > >If I set the Hide the Branch in To Do flag on the child tasks, then > >there does not appear to be anyway of getting these to appear in the > >ToDo view - even setting the Action Filter to All does not work (as > >it seems to still filter out tasks with the Hide in Branch flag set) > > Not for me. I can create a view that shows everything I've got - > they are grayed but present. But I don't think HideInTodo is really > want you want, because they really are tasks for you. > > If you are committed to doing this with your current structure, what > I would suggest is a wide-open view that shows everything, and then > slowly add rules that filter out what you want. Go to "Manage > Views"; create a new view; change Action Filter to All. > > Lisa > > ---------- > Lisa Stroyan, mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
