Hi Dwight. Agree that we need an option for the text search to match the parents of the selected items!
Richard On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:45:29 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Hi,Richard > If l understand you correctly, the issue is not whether text and flag > filters play well together. It's the need for the convenient and efficient > ''text search" tool to access not only a task's own text but also the > task's parent's text. > > Would you agree that you can easily build a search that would find a task > with "monitor" in its own text and a certain flag set? But to find a task > with "linked" in it's parents text takes more complexity. > > As you mentioned, you could use the hierarchy filter. Or, you could make > an advanced filter for "flag = YELLOW and ParentName contains Linked". But > either of these approaches would lack the simplicity of the text Search. > > So, l think what you need is an option on the text search to look at > parent text. > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > > On Apr 30, 2014, Richard Collings <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: >> >> I applied a filter to an outline view to restrict it to tasks with a >> particular flag and I then typed something into the text filter box that >> matched text *in the parent* of one of the tasks that had the flag that >> I was filtering on. >> >> >> >> Result: blank list of tasks. >> >> >> >> This wasn’t what I was expecting or hoping for – I wanted MLO to apply >> the text filter to *all* items in the outline view (including the >> parents), not just the items that matched the filter I had set. >> >> >> >> Reason: the parent was a project and this had the word that I was >> searching for. I keep my task names short and generic (in this case: >> ‘Monitor/Post’ and the parent name was ‘Linked In’. I was searching for >> Linked In’) >> >> >> >> If I type a text filter that matches the text of the task that has the >> flag, that works as expected. >> >> >> >> Not sure whether this is working as expected. The Help for the Text >> Filter Control implies that it works on all items in the view, not just >> those that match the other filter criteria. >> >> >> >> I find the Text filtering very useful (despite being an early skeptic) >> for quickly finding a particular row (using the Ctrl+ L and Ctrl+Shift+L >> combinations for applying/removing the filter) in a particular view so this >> is not desirable behaviour from my point view as often it is the parent >> that contains the differentiating information that I am searching for. >> >> >> >> PS: I realise that I could probably achieve the same result by applying a >> custom filter to parents only in the Show Hierarchy filter control but this >> is cumbersome for a one off quick search >> >> >> >> 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/874a6461-64d3-4ea1-b1b0-7c53ad73f66a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
