So, I would suggest that you create a view that filters for folders that are not hidden. The view should be hierarchical with children shown but not parents, and the children filtered to be active tasks with start date time missing or start date time less that or equal to now.
If you need me to make a picture of this, let me know. The basic idea is that you do not want tasks and their folders, you want folders and their tasks. This prevents the folder from dissapearing when all of its tasks as completed. The business with the start date is to adjist for the difference between the Active setting for action filters versus the Active setting for Advanced filter. Again, if you need further explanation let me know. -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Sep 24, 2015, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >P.S. I was forgetting - there is also the "Hide the branch in To-Do" >field. > >So that's it then - I want to show folders essentially everywhere. >Everywhere except where a folder is in the Active Tasks views and that >folder has the "Hide the branch in To-Do" field ticked. > >J > > > >On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 9:39:57 PM UTC+1, John Smith wrote: >> >> OK good questions. >> >> One option would be to set some sort of flag (literally a MLO Flag?) >and >> have that make the folder appear. That way only the folders that I >actually >> want to appear would be visible in my Active Tasks view. >> >> However folders are not something I use in multiple places and I >think I >> could live with ALL folders staying visible. >> >> >> >> On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 8:23:24 PM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur >wrote: >>> >>> Do I correctly understand that you want some folders (the ones that >>> customarily get to hold your active tasks) to be retained in the >view while >>> others (that hold lists and whatnot) to be excluded? How would MLO >>> discriminate between the two, would there ba a flag? A trick prefix >to the >>> task name? Maybe a branch in your outline for tasky folders and a >different >>> branch for the non-tasky ones? Or maybe some other rule? >>> -Dwight >>> Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 >>> >>> On Sep 24, 2015, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I have discovered something rather irritating. In my All Active >Tasks >>>> outline view, if I have a folder that has no uncompleted tasks in >it, the >>>> folder disappears from view >>>> Nowadays I more or less live in this "All Active Tasks outline >view" and >>>> I tend to add stuff directly into it. And if I want to add stuff >into a >>>> particular folder that is impossible if the folder has disappeared. >>>> >>>> One option is to go to my All Tasks view, however that is riddled >with >>>> my Lists of stuff that I dont want to see on a day-to-day basis and >that >>>> stuff rather gets in the way. >>>> >>>> A work around is to create a Task which I never tick as complete, >and to >>>> use it much like a folder. It's visually annoying to see something >that >>>> looks like a Task but which I can not complete. >>>> >>>> So is there any way to get a Folder to appear on the "All Active >Tasks >>>> outline view" even when it does not contain any uncompleted tasks? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> J >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/dd2cde61-ac93-43cf-a6cf-125a2d382933%40googlegroups.com > >>>> ><https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/dd2cde61-ac93-43cf-a6cf-125a2d382933%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- 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/835e7186-4641-40dc-aca8-28e08f481e32%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
