Hi, Wol. You seem to know your way around the “filter” section of the view 
definition panel, right? Are you familiar with a control that says “Show 
Hierarchy” with values “yes” or “no”? If you select “yes” the word “config” 
appears after the control. Be sure you have made the left panel wide enough for 
the word “config” to be visible. If you click on “config” you raise the 
hierarchy configuration menu.

 

You can use the view as is without configuring the hierarchy and it will 
probably be useful. I thought you would like some tweaks because (1) showing 
all the parents can get to be a lot of parents. If your profile is long and 
your hierarchies are deep, you can end up with a lot of paging to find 
anything. Eliminating the parents clears all that out, just showing you the 
stuff you really need to see.

 

Remember that if you discover a task you need to access but don’t know where in 
the hierarchy to find it, you can try doubleclicking on it in a filtered view. 
The result should be that a tab opens on the outline view with your task 
highlighted, showing it in the full context of its neighbors in the hierarchy. 
So for that reason I’d advise turning off “parent items.

 

And tweak (2) is that the unmodified report will include completed children of 
completed parents so long as the parent has at least one uncompleted child. 
These completed children may have some reason to be shown but I’d assume they 
were better hidden. By clicking “include children” and “set child filter” and 
setting the child filter to (Completed is False) you would hide these extra 
children.

-Dwight

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wallace Gilbraith
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2015 6:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: Locating Active tasks nested under Completed Tasks

 

Thanks Dwight - I followed your first part, about Advanced Filter - based on a 
a test sample of one item, deliberately created just now,  that shows me any 
completed tasks that have active subtasks, and their place in the Outline - 
brilliant. That seems to give me what I want.  

 

Forgive me but I didn't follow the last bits, about Hierarchy configuration - I 
can't see where to influence that. (I'm using MLO 4.3.1 Pro for Windows). 

 

Regards

 

Wol

 



On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 8:18:32 PM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote:

Here's a different approach

Start with the All Tasks view

Advanced filter is
((Complete) AND (HasIncompleteSubtasks is true))

In hierarchy confign turn off parents and turn on children

In child hierarchy filter, enter
(Complete is False)
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2

On May 29, 2015, Wallace Gilbraith <[email protected] <javascript:> > wrote:

Yes, thank you, Oliver - that is helpful. That gives me a view (which I've 
called 'Hidden Tasks') of my Outline that, when expanded, shows all active 
items and also any completed items that still have active items under them. 
There are a few such instances showing up, so that's very useful.

 

My Outline is large enough that it takes about 80 'page-down's to look through 
it all. 

 

I wonder if there's a way or reducing this Hidden Tasks view to show only the 
completed items together with the active items under them. 

 

If one item meets the criteria, the affected parts of the outline might then 
all fit on a single screen

 

Of course, ideally, the Hidden Tasks view should be blank, meaning there are no 
completed items with active items under them. 

 

 Regards

 

Wol 



On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 9:00:04 AM UTC+1, robisme (Olivier R) wrote:

Hello,

Try this:

 

- advanced filter : add ("complete" is false)

- general filter : set ("show hierarchy= yes") and set parent filter" = 
"complete"

 

It should works (at least it does for me)

 

 

 



Le jeudi 28 mai 2015 23:51:56 UTC+2, Wallace Gilbraith a écrit :

I’ve found that, occasionally, items I know I still need to do aren’t visible 
in my basic active task views. It turns out, when I search for them by 
text-string, that MLO has somehow magicked an Active item to a completely 
different place in my Outline, and nested it *under* some long-completed item, 
where it’s never going to appear in a list of Active items. I’ve asked MLO, a 
while ago, and they said ‘what do we need to do to replicate the issue’, and of 
course I don’t know! I’ve got a feeling it happens during wi-fi sync (I don’t 
use cloud sync), but I can’t be sure.

After 18 months of use, my Outline has several thousand Active and Completed 
items, and I can’t check through the whole lot every day to make sure 
everything is where I put it. Until now, I’ve not had time and energy to 
explore filtering and setting up new Views, so I’ve lived with it, but it 
occurs to me someone might be able to help.

What I’d like is a View that will reveal all active items nested under 
completed items.

Or, conversely, that reveals all completed items with active items under them.

Any suggestions?

A simple list would work just fine. I can then Search for the affected tasks in 
the Outline, and move them back to their intended locations.

Thanks in advance

Wol

 

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