Hi, Florian. You were pretty close. The first problem is that the folder "business" contains two tasks that are supposed to be completed in order. In many ways, a folder is just a special kind of task. What makes a folder different from other tasks is that is has no start or due date and it cannot be marked completed. Note that a task (including folders) that have all of their subtasks completed is a different condition from the task itself being completed. Since the first "task" in the business folder is never completed, the second one never becomes active.
There's another issue with recurrent tasks, which is that under normal circumstances they are never actually completed. You mark one completed and instantly it recurrs with a future date. By the time you check to see if some subsequent task is activated the recurrent task is incomplete again. A key step in fixing this is to change your folder full of recurrent tasks into a recurring project. The individual tasks now become non recurring subtasks of the recurring project. Every time the project completes, and gets recurred, the subtasks regenerate. It's important that the nonrecurring subtasks use "inherit parent dates" so their dates move forward each day. A recurring project full of nonrecurring subtasks is very similar to a folder full of recurring tasks all of which have the same start and due dates, except that the project form gives you some more control. Due to the issue described above, the project will never be complete. So you need to remove "complete tasks in order" for the top level folder "business" and replace it with an explicit dependency from the "various tasks" folder to the last task in the daily project. Here is what I ended up with: Top level folder Business (complete tasks in order NOT set) Business contains two items: a project named "Daily" followed by a folder named "Various" The Daily project is a recurring project with start and due dates set to today and recurrence set for daily, every 1 day. Task recurrence advanced options are set to (reset all subtasks to uncompleted; disable automatic recurrence; do not create a completed copy). The daily project has "complete subtasks in order" set. Two subtasks Daily1 and Daily2 have "inherit parent dates" set and no other options. The Various folder had "complete subtasks in order" set and has a dependency on the Daily2 task. The subtasks Various1 through Various5 of the "various" folder have no particular options set. At this point, the to-do list should show Daily1. When you complete Daily1, Daily2 will appear. When you complete Daily2, you get two items in your to-do list, the daily project and Various1. The daily project is there because it is waiting for you to tell it that the day is over. By hanging open in your to-do list it is holding the day open and allowing your "various" tasks to be active. Lets suppose that you are able to complete Various1 and Various2 today, and you end the day with the daily project and Various3 showing in the to-do list.End the day by clicking the Daily project to end it. (if you forget to do this, don't worry, you can do it first thing tomorrow morning.) After you complete your daily project, none of the tasks from Business will be in your to-do list. After midnight, the Daily1 task will appear. When you complete Daily2, the daily project will appear in your to-do list, the same as it did yesterday. But appearing with it will be Various3, the next task to be done in the Various folder. How close is this to what you wanted? -Dwight On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 6:10:24 PM UTC-5, Florian wrote: > > ...I want the first task in [Various Tasks] to turn active the instant the > second task in [Daily routines] is completed...What am I doing wrong? > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/80491a5c-070e-41d2-929c-4bc5f17a73cc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
