AHA, now I replicated the bug. But I think we are talking about two things here:
1. What should MLO do when you drop onto sorted/grouped views? From what I can see, MLO already does what it can, and I haven't come across situations where it should guess any better. If you drop on a Context group, it puts the task into that context. If you try to drop into a sorted view it says you can't unless you change to manual sort and offers to change to that for you. I did try dropping my test task into my manually sorted Active Starred View. It did not add the star, which makes sense because it's not a grouping so MLO doesn't know what to add. It put it in the proper order, though - when I added the star, the task was then right where I had put it. 2. There is a bug (I think) where sometimes, MLO changes the wrong data. I was able to replicate this by changing my Active Starred to be also be Grouped by Starred, and dropping a task from a separate All Tasks window onto it, and indeed, it changed the tree location, which I think is a bug, because it doesn't do that if you drop from elsewhere in the view. It also immediately moves it to the end of the manually sorted list, instead putting it where I dropped it, which I think is a minor bug. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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