When you drop a task into a hierarchical view it’s pretty easy to understand what should happen. With to-do view it’s less obvious.
Some views are manually sorted – you drag tasks up and down in the view and they stay where you put them. If you drop a task into one of these views you probably want it to stay where it already is in terms of position in the hierarchy, but also it should become a member of the view you dropped it into, at the position where you dropped it. (I don’t have any manually sorted tasks.) In most views the tasks are sorted according to some criterion. The result of a drop depends on the sort criteria. For example, if a view is grouped by context and you drop a task into a particular context group, it apparently means that the task should have the particular context added. A little more complex for the programmer but probably doable. How about if you have a report grouped by date modified and you drop a task into the group “modified last week” – should the task have its “date modified” changed to last week? Does not seem reasonable at all. Suppose the view is sorted alphabetically by Caption (task name) and you drop a task “Empty Trash” in between “Call Matthew” and “Call Mom” – it’s pretty hard to figure out what that should mean. So the whole business of dropping tasks into system-sorted to-do views has to be limited in some way. If brilliant programmers worked for free, you would define certain things as prohibited (like dropping tasks into a view sorted by caption) and set up context adds, date changes and whatever’s necessary to handle anything that’s not prohibited. In the real world you need to do less than that, so maybe you would just handle context adds and prohibit everything else. Or maybe just prohibit all drops into to-do lists. But then something has been lost. If there’s somebody who gets some value out of the current functionality, the value would be lost in return for a somewhat less confusing system. It’s a difficult trade-off and I’m glad I don’t have to make it. -Dwight From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of robisme (Olivier R) Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Re: Dragging and dropping task from outline view to a todo view should not move task in Outline? Outline view is the "solid actual" place where belong your tasks, and Todo view is kind of a virtual place. But in the Todo view, if you add a task, it must necessarily find a place to belong somewhere in the outline, and the most obvious is under the task below which it is in the Todo view. So if you drag a task from the Outline, it will be moved, that's normal. This is only my opinion, you can think or know differently. Olivier Le samedi 13 avril 2013 19:48:55 UTC+2, Richard C a écrit : In the desktop version, if one has a ‘new window’ showing a ‘ToDo’ view and in the main window, one has an Outline view open, if one drags a task from the Outline view to the ToDo view, the task is moved in the Outline view to appear beneath the task that you try to insert it below in the ToDo view. This was not what I wanted – I wanted the task to remain where it was in the Outline view and to simply move in the ToDo view (where it already appeared) to the new location that I dragged it to. This works as I would like if the view in the main window is a ToDo view of some sort (it doesn’t need to be the same ToDo view as in the ‘new window’). I can’t see a reason why (from a user point of view) why dragging a task from a Outline view to a ToDo view should move the task in the Outline view. What do people reckon? Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
