Hi, Chuck. I could write several pages, which may or may not tell you what you want to know. Instead, try this experiment:
Pick out some view that you understand and like. Ideally it should have a smallish number of tasks shown, maybe five to fifteen. More if you have to. At least some of the tasks should have subtasks and at least some should be somewhere below the top level (in other words, they should have parents and children. It would also be nice if they were scattered across different parts of your overall outline. My "@calls" report works well for me. 1. Bring up the view definition in the left hand pane. 2. In the second box under "General" set "Show Hierarchy" to "yes" 3. Click "config" to the right of the "show hierarchy" box 4. Turn on "include parents" and turn off "include children" 5. Have a look at your view. See how the list of tasks has turned into a filtered outline, but showing only the outline bits necessary to show the full context of the items in your original view? 6. Back to config. Turn off "include children" and turn on "include parents". 7. Have another look. See how you have an entirely different filtered outline, treating each item from your original view as the root of branch and showing you the full branch. 8. Back to config. This time include both the parents and the children and see what you've got. 9. Try out the filters - you can select some parents and/or children to include or exclude by writing filters. 10. If you can figure out a use for "continue searching in branch after main filter match" do us all a favor and come back here to explain it. I think you will find this enlightening. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of chuckdevee Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Functionally, how much has really changed in version 4? Ah yes, of course, it is indeed a big new feature being able to drag and drop tasks between different views..so that's a major functional improvement.. .. Filtered Outline sounds great.. I missed that one.. can you tell me how I filter the Outline pls Dwight? i' being a bit dumb but can't quite figure out how to do that. thanks Big plusses for me are: -drag and drop from one view to another -ability to switch between views without losing my place -filtered outline views -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/-/VoJLyVcIp-wJ. 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. -- 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.
