Thanks Neal & Lisa. With your help I've got this figured out. Assume I have seven maintenance tasks, and I need to perform one each week, so each one gets done once every seven weeks:
This solution - Never shows more than one of the tasks in "active tasks" - If I complete a task on time, none of these tasks will be active until next week when the next one will activate - If I miss getting a task done it will show as overdue till I do it, then the next one will activate. - If I get two weeks behind schedule and then finish a task, last week's task will activate already overdue - If I get behind and don't want to make the effort to catch up, I click completion on the parent project enough times to bring it to today (or on Windows I can right-click the parent project and select "skip occurences", then select "skip all occurences up to today" and I end up with the task that's next to do, but its due this week. - If I add another task,it just slips in wherever I pit it, and now each task reoccurs in eight weeks instead of seven - If I need to reorder the tasks I can just do so by drag & drop and all of the scheduling and due dates fall into place Best of all, all of this works on a phone version of MLO so I don't have to keep running back to Windows. Here's the setup 1. create a task, named "Maintenance" or whatever. 2. Make it a project, with subtasks executed in order. 3. Set start date = this Monday and due date = this Friday, recurring every week. 4. advanced recurrence options: subtasks recurr when all completed, automatic recurring when any subtask completed 5. then add the subtasks, in the correct order That's it. My database contains a lot of tasks with recurrence every seven weeks (or every 42 days) or every 27 weeks. I could not get rid of almost all of them and use this task cycle instead. I would then be able to do almost all of my scheduling right on the phone (android) - the only remaining issue needing scheduling on Windows would be quarterly scheduling, and I can probably overcome that by creating a template for a task that reocurrs every 91 days. -Dwight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/d5mLycp3JxIJ. 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.
