Thank you for your time in responding to my query. So if I understand correctly (and apparently I don't), under the Filter menu the "General" tab (Actions / Hierarchy / Completed) should take precedence over the Advanced Filter near the bottom. That would make sense given its location in the window, however when I started with a new view and used the Hierarchy Config button to Include Parent and Child items, with the Filters both set to "DueDateTime exists" only a hand full of incomplete tasks showed up, none of which were for the Project I'm trying to focus on and none of the Project Folders are visible to see what project the tasks are in (I've got all Personal and Business Projects in one file, maybe that's the issue).
Starting again with the "By due date view" which seems to be a partial success (hey MLO, what's due on each of my Projects?): - Show Actions: "All" - Show Hierarchy "Yes" / Config Default on "Include Parent Items" and "Include Child Items" (I had not used this before because the "Config" text is not wrapped within the button and is illegible) - Show Completed on "Yes" - Advanced Filter default "DueDateTimeExists" for this view. With these settings on one of my Projects I've been reviewing the view shows Nine (9) incomplete tasks which matches the Outline View, of course all completed tasks are also shown which I have to scroll through to see the incomplete tasks. So why not just look at the Outline View? If I want to just focus on just incomplete tasks within a certain Project I go back up and select Show Completed: "No" and the same Project now only shows One incomplete task out of the Nine in the Outline and previous Show Completed: Yes view. So where are the other Eight incomplete tasks? They're in the Outline View, and show up when all complete tasks are shown, but they still are not complete and I need to see them whether I see the incomplete tasks or not. What's the secret to a usable To-Do view? I've tried General Filter options and Advanced Filter Options with Rules and Sub-rules either in combination with General Filters or separate, that by their descriptions should work but nothing has. I've also tried Sorting the View, either separately or combined with Filters. These views were further off the mark. If I get time I'll either post my profile or create a test profile to post, but for now I'm still scrolling through completed tasks. Hardly seems like the To-Do view is worth it, just scroll though the Outline which is the only view I really trust that doesn't hide incomplete tasks. On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:47:01 AM UTC-7, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Hi, John. I don’t understand your situation well enough to be able to help > you with a solution but I can talk through MLO’s concept of filtered > hierarchies and maybe it will help. > > > > It appears to me that you want to apply a filter to your hierarchy and > have it applied across all the levels of your hierarchy. Unfortunately it’s > not that simple. > > > > Hierarchical views are created in two steps (well, more really but only > two that matter to this discussion) First, the main and advanced filters > are applied to create a flat list of items that pass the filter at that > level. The second step makes it hierarchical: the children and/or parents > (per your request) are attached to each of the items that passed step one. > The children and/or parents are filtered based **not** on the main and > advanced filters but on the child filter and/or parent filter (click the > “config” button after the Show Hierarchy filter). Then the resulting trees > are merged and your view is ready. > > > > I’m not sure if this is what you are after, but you could try turning Show > Completed to Yes in the main filter and adding a child filter, Complete is > False > > > > None of this explains why you would get a nearly empty view when you set > the main filter for Show Completed to No. We would have to dig further – if > you don’t need to investigate this question that’s great, otherwise please > let us know whether the project or any level parent of the missing tasks > were completed. If not, to investigate this further I would ask you to post > your profile file to the forum – if you do not want to publish the actual > contents of your profile (I wouldn’t) maybe you could create a new blank > profile, set up some dummy projects and tasks and reproduce the situation > there, and then post it. > > -Dwight > > > > *On* Monday, March 16, 2015 11:22 AM, John Lewis Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Advanced Filter settings are default for "By due date" view (DueDateTime / > Exists). > > -- 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/8c4b10e0-b1e3-485f-8b1d-34c19e03b510%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
