Just a quick reply, Steve - I think I would primarily use the list approach but with some nesting. So for example, if I have understood your dependencies, I would create a task in the list 'Get parents permission' which would have 'Call home', 'Send permission form' and 'Receive permission form' as children
Richard On Thursday, 22 January 2015 22:21:06 UTC, Steve Kunkel wrote: > > Hi All, > I have a question about how best to "feed" the subtasks of a project into > my Next Actions list... > The scenario is that I'm a school psychologist and this is my setup for > completing educational reevaluations for special needs kids. > I can "almost" use the "Complete subtasks in order" option that is in > Properties > General. But the problem is that not ALL of the subtasks need > to be competed in order. > see image: > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ONcds7lSG-w/VMF0lhAEdHI/AAAAAAAAAYM/ovLWcYSGpds/s1600/Screenshot%2B-%2B1_22_2015%2B%2C%2B2_06_57%2BPM.png> > The first "Sample Student" uses a hierarchy to feed the sequential parts. > As you can see, "email teachers" and "record review" can be done at any > time but testing and report-writing can't happen until parent is contacted, > etc. > > The annoying part about the nesting example is that the nested items are > sortof in reverse order.... That is, "call parent" is the very first thing > to do, but it is at the bottom... Also, maybe there will be other > unforeseen disadvantages of having dozens of multi-level nests in my > outline(?). In that regard, the bottom Sample Student is better because > the tasks are all "children of" the Student project, and because the items > are shown in logical order in the outline view. The problem with the > dependency setup is that I'm affraid that if I need to add other tasks in > there (e.g. "observe student in class") or take some out, then it might > disrupt the "chain of dependencies," and there really no visual indication > of what item is dependent on what... > > Hence the dilemma.. Which technique to use ... Which would you guys use? > Are there any unforeseen factors that might throw me a curve ball later?? > Thanks in advance, for any tips. :) > > -- 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/bdbf9f17-1270-46a7-a4bf-b1fcd01c5fb1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
