Hi Ron, You are completely right and I apologize. For some stupid reason I treated you as "technical support" instead of a fellow user. Yes, I did not understand how (and why) the product behaves as it does. Therefore I do thank you for your insight. Now that I do understand, I will treat this as a minor bug and open a separate thread for it. Regards, Ely Hofner
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ron Stockfleth <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Ely, > > I disagree. I do think I answered your original question. Your > original question was, "Week and None get same boost in computed > score. Shouldn't "week" be the only one boosted ?" Nowhere in your > original posting and subsequent next three postings did it show that > you understood that subtasks of Week Goals get the same boost in > Computed Score. In fact, it was your 4th posting on this topic that > made me realize that you did not understand this fact. Based on your > response to my comment, it is clear that you now understand this, so I > believe I have accomplished something in my response to you. > > While I did not expect a "Thank You" for my response, I certainly > didn't think I would get a "You didn't explain my original question" > response. > > Since you now understand how MLO handles this, but still have a > problem with it, I suggest you close this thread and start a new one, > titled "Goal buttons of subtasks of parent Tasks with Goals should be > gray", or something like that. In that way, readers who don't feel as > passionate about this new topic as you do won't waste your time or > their time by responding to it. > > Ron > > On Feb 7, 3:48 am, Ely Hofner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ron, > > > > Very logical and does not explain my original question. > > > > If a subtask of a weekly task must inherit the parent Goal, Goal buttons > > should be gray. > > > > If a subtask of a weekly task can overide the parent Goal, Goal buttons > > should behave in a deferent way. > > > > Regards, > > Ely > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Ron Stockfleth <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Hi Ely, > > > > > This is neither a bug nor a "problem"; this is a design feature of > > > MLO. The fact that every subtask of a parent task that is a Week Goal > > > gets the same Red Exclamation Point Week Goal icon might have been > > > your first clue! :) > > > > > The idea behind this is if you designate a parent task as a weekly > > > goal, then most certainly all of the subtasks that must be completed > > > for the parent task to be completed, must be weekly goals as well. In > > > this way, the subtasks of weekly goals show up as weekly goals in the > > > goal view of the outline view as well as customized views in the To-Do > > > view with Week Goals as filtering criteria. > > > > > You could argue that the subtasks should also have the Week Goal radio > > > button selected, but I would most strenuously disagree with that > > > position. I think it is very efficient and logical to designate the > > > parent task as a weekly goal and have all of its subtasks get the Red > > > Exclamation Point icon indicating it's a weekly goal as well and > > > getting its computed-score boost to the top of the list. > > > > > Ron > > > > > On Feb 4, 2:23 am, Ely Hofner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, Focused on the relevant tasks: > > > > Problem occurs with subtasks of tasks thar have the week on. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ely > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ely Hofner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I found out that the "bug" is not consistent on all tasks. It is > > > consistent > > > > > on the same task. > > > > > Some task behave the way you describe (the right way) and some (old > > > ones as > > > > > well as tasks I added now for the test) do not ! > > > > > If the problem was only on old tasks (records) I would do a > "reset". No > > > > > idea how to handle present situation. > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Ely > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ely Hofner <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > >> Hi, > > > > >> In my case I see tha task change location as I described: week+ > none > > > > >> higher priority, year+month lower priority. > > > > >> What I do is very simple. I select a task by clicking on it, and > then > > > go > > > > >> to the right side (General properties and play with the Goal > setting). > > > > >> I then see the computer score (right side, properties TAB) showing > the > > > > >> same number for week and none. > > > > >> Regards, > > > > >> Ely > > > > > > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Richard C <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > >>> Er - not here (as far as I can see). Week Goal items are still > > > being > > > > >>> boosted to the top of my list over items which are set to > Goal:None. > > > > > > >>> Can you explain a bit more what you are seeing. > > > > > > >>> On Feb 1, 2:26 pm, Ely Hofner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>> > Shouldnt "week" be the only one boosted ? > > > > >>> > Regards, > > > > >>> > Ely > > > > > > >>> -- > > > > >>> 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]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > <mylifeorganized%[email protected]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > > > > > <mylifeorganized%[email protected]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > <mylifeorganized%[email protected]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > > > > > > > > >>> . > > > > >>> For more options, visit this group at > > > > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > 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]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > <mylifeorganized%[email protected]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > > -- > 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]<mylifeorganized%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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