Glad to help, Joel. First let me try to be clear on what you are trying to achieve.
You are making a filtered hierarchy. These can be especially tricky because items you are trying to filter our can sometimes become included because they are parent, or child, or some kind of cousin to an included item. It's important to keep clear that you are making a flat, filtered list and then adding the included items' parents and children. A good debugging step would be to run the view with hierarchy off, verify that the tasks (folders) you see are the ones you wanted, and then add the hierarchy back. I would encourage you to avoid any filters that would select a task and also that task's parent or grandparent in a filtered hierarchy as it's likely to get messy. I'm guessing that the reason you have hierarchy on is that some of what you are selecting would be folders and you want to see the tasks under those folders. If that's the case, I would turn off parent hierarchy and show only the children. This avoids messiness if srveral selected items have the same parent - MLO then has to merge trees and that's when the cousins start showing up. Next question, it's clear that if a folder has one od the three captions you specified, you want the folder and its subtasks. Is this true regardless of the context of the subtask? And if a task has the @jobsite context and has subtasks, do you want to see them or not, and does it depend on the context of the subtasks? -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Sep 10, 2015, Joel Azaria <[email protected]> wrote: On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 6:38:07 PM UTC-4, Dwight Arthur wrote: Hi, Jennifer. [SNIP...] Subrules have a comples counterintuitive structure - when you are ready to learn about them come back and ask again. Anyhow, when you are through click OK and check to see if the view is showing what you want. If so, then save it and name it and consider setting up a workspace for it. Advanced filters can get to be incredibly complex, but that's because your life is incredibly complex. My life is incredibly complex. Can I call in that offer for a subrules primer? I've tried 500 ways and can't get what I want. Maybe I can articulate it here and you can suggest smth rather than try to go over what I've tried so far. Here's what I need to end up with: 2 distinct 'sets' of data, 1st is simple: Task is *not* HideInToDo and Contexts contains @Job-site 2nd is a bit more: Caption is any of 'Change Orders, Billables', 'Bring to Jobsite', 'Need for Jobsite' is not HideInTodo has subtasks. Both rules will produce 'hits' on two distinct branches and I want to see them in this one view. If it matters - Show Actions: All, Show Heir: Yes, Show Completed: Recent The closest rule set I got so far was: (not(HideInToDo)) AND > OR(Caption is 'Change Orders, Billables') OR(Caption is 'Bring to Jobsite') > OR(Caption is 'Need for Jobsite')>(not(HideInToDo)) AND(Contexts contains > @Job-site) Which works great except that I can't figure out how to filter the folders (selected by Caption above) where there is no subtasks. Any help appreciated. Thx. -- 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/b1056492-e04f-4c8c-96f8-0364fd3efe1c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 -- 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/cf5d353a-ded5-4274-ba3a-341cd69c2fd0%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
