HI Lisa Thanks so much for responding to this and successfully distracting yourself from more important work :) I'm fairly new with this level of using MLO so am still a bit unsure.
My main objective is to see one task per client appear at a time in my to do list and have a certain amount of time to get it done. And for some tasks ( like receiving client input) the clock for the next task only starts when the current task is complete. Seeing the task of receiving the input as incomplete in my to do list is good. Right now there are no subfolders just a parent with a list of tasks that have to be done in order, with the time to complete some tasks only starting when the previous one is complete. Does this set up match what you have outlined? I can't quite tell./ It looks like the first option makes the most sense but I don't understand how the recurance works. Will the parent "photos for client" appear multiple times? Or will just the subtask appear? And how often? Here are more details of what I am trying to accomplish if you want to distract yourself some more :) I'm a wedding photographer, by the way. And picking out photos are for the album that will have multiple revisions with the client, so multiple ties that I am waiting on the client before the clock starts again to complete the new revision. I'm creating my client workflow. And this is the design so far: The client's name is the parent and under that are all the steps in one folder. Starting date is the shoot date The tasks have a certain amount of time to be completed. it works well to set the parent that all subtasks are done in order I want to see only one task per client to be done at a time It is fine to have in my to do's that there is a task to receive the client's photo choices The next step is to design and deliver the wedding album proof and there is a week to do that from the time that previous task is completed Then I have to wait for them to go over the design and give me changes that they would like I have a week from the time that the "task" of receiving the changes to revise the album Thanks so much Lisa! Jon On Mar 11, 1:35 pm, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote: > See if this does what you want. Put the recurrence on the parent, ie, > > Photos for <client> > received client album choices > generate photos > > Set recurrence for "Photos for <client>" as follows: > - Starts at photo shoot date, due one week later, recurs one week after > this task is completed. *Advanced*: Automatically recur when ANY subtask is > completed, DISABLE automatic reset. > > - If you want " received client album choices" to be an active task until > the client gets back to you, you can use "complete subtasks in order" on > the parent. (or combine with option below) > > - If you don't, try this. Uncheck "complete subtasks in order". Put a > dependency from "generate" to "received". Then on "received", click "Hide > in Todo". It won't show up in your normal task lists until you get the > clients feedback. > > - Alternatively, you can set the start/due date for the parent to be when > you want to remind the client, ex. 3 weeks out (combine with option 1 > above). So you would have: > Photos for <client> > received client choices > remind client to make album choices > generate photos > > Since you are using "recur 1 week later..." the brilliant thing is that you > can set the date for reminding the client out a few weeks, and still, once > you complete "received client choices", "generate" will be one week out. > > The only catch is that lead time is inherited from the parent. I think you > can play with the dates of the subtasks though and it will track. > > A fun challenge :) Much more interesting than the work I'm supposed to be > doing. > > Lisa > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:32 AM, FischerPhoto > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > This may be a simple question but can't figure it out. Thanks. Tasks > > are set to be completed in order. > > I'm a photographer. Previous task is "received client album choices" > > I want there to be a week lead to complete this which will only begin > > once that task is "completed". I have set a week lead time. When I > > enter this info in, a date is generated as a week from the shooting > > date. And I want there to be no date generated yet. I want the date > > only to be generated once I complete the previous task. > > > Thanks very much! > > > -Jon > > > -- > > 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. > > -- > Lisa > > ------------------------------ > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[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.
