Hi, John. Not a b-u-g imho. sorry. the thing you saved is a "view" which is a set of filters and such as defined in the left panel. The xolumn selection is not accessible though the left panel and is therefore not saved when you save a view. I am oversimplifying but this is about 95% true.
The thing that saves a view together with other information such as zoom and selected columns is a workspace, also known as a tab. Try this: -Hit the [+] tab marker at the right of your tab list. A new tab appears. -Type in some nice name for the workspace. -you can click or clear the two "sync" checkboxes, does not matter to me - hit <enter> to save the workspace name - make sure that you have the view you want - make sure the column selection and zoom is what you want - right click the tab and select "set as default" - right click the tab and select "lock to default" - maybe you want to assign some nice icon and pin the tab. or not. now whenever you click this tab you will get the tasklist you just defined. btw this is probably a good time to tell you about persistent unsaved view changes. when you edit a view the changes are not saved back to the view definition but they remain in effect in the current workspace. If you open the same view in a different workspace the changes will be absent but if you go back to the workspace where you made the changes they are still there. You can close MLO, reboot your computer and reopen MLO, the workspace will still be there and your unsaved changes will still be present. You can edit system views but you cannot save them. When you save a view the changes now appear in all workspaces using the view. On Saturday, December 6, 2014 8:32:47 AM UTC-5, John Smith wrote: > > > Hi > > I have a problem with view columns that keep reverting. > > Seeming all of my Views (and one of them in particular) - are extremely > frustrating because the columns are not in the sequence and position that I > want. But every time I change them back to how I want them (and yes, then > hit "Save" at the bottom of the Filter panel on the left - either saving to > the same or a new name), then all it takes is for me to look an any other > View and then BANG the columns have reverted to where they were. [grrr] > > Fwiw, the two columns in question are "Importance" and "Urgency". The View > in question is mainly a rather complicated one that I constructed from > scratch, but the problem also affects other Views including the original > "Outline > All tasks" view that won't let me Save at all. (==> "You are not > allowed to change predefined views...") > > [Aside: Strangely although you aren't allowed to change the predefined > view you ARE allowed to change the columns aspect of the view whatever the > software says.] > > But the problem is not remotely consistent. It does seem to help somewhat > if you have two copies of the exactly same View next to each other on the > left hand column. But not for very long... And it may revert at any point. > Certainly as soon as you delete the spare one, the other one's columns > always seem to go wrong again! > > This definitely feels like a bug to me. (Ouch! Ironically as soon as I > wrote the word bug - if confirmed by act of God - I get a message to my > screen that MLO has actually crashed!) > > Any suggestions or best practices as to how to avoid the columns going > wrong? > > e.g. Should I delete all copies of my Views and rebuild them from scratch? > e.g. Should I export all my data and import into a new blank MLO file? (V > painful obviously as I would lose a lot of settings presumably..) > > -- 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/5c7d21f8-7a31-46c6-8f2d-f212511a21f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
