Hi, Chuck--

This is an area where the app's many bells and whistles start to trip
over one another. However, you can get a project (or a sequence) to
recur fairly simply.

Create a task, DON'T make it a folder. Give it subtasks.
Set the recurrence on the parent task. DO NOT set recurrence on the
subtasks.
Complete all the subtasks, then complete the parent task.
A fresh-uncompleted copy of all of the subtasks then appears.

Recurrence always works with a date, but all the subtasks will inherit
the parent task's date.

There are a LOT of things about this that don't work as expected.

For example, there is an option in the Advanced button of the
Recurrence tab for the Parent task to automatically recur when all the
subtasks are complete-- but it doesn't work. This is why the parent
should NOT be a folder (since it's annoying to complete a folder
task).

If the key feature of what you're looking for is for the recurred copy
to reflect relative start times, I think you'll be out of luck.

What MLO supports are simple predecessor/successor relationships (in
most project management apps, these are Finish-Start relationships).
In a more robust application, you could set that relationship with a
delay.

MLO is a little bit more of a very robust, automated whiteboard than
it is a project management application-- and it's an outstanding
application when looked at from that perspective.

If anyone else is aware of something I've missed or gotten wrong,
PLEASE chime in!


On Mar 2, 6:53 am, chuckdevee <[email protected]> wrote:
> solved this.. much simpler than I expected.. actually works very
> well..
> make a folder, attach a series of subtasks to complete in order and
> duplicate the task set .. works better than an auto recurrence would
> because you can stick a start date in for the active task if you want
> to delay the sequence..    ideally though, it would be nice to have an
> auto recurrence that worked completely without dates so that even if
> you stuck a date into one of the tasks, it wouldn't replicate.. would
> this be possible Andrey?

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