Hi, John.

I don't have any solution for you.

I might be able to guess why context is missing from sort. If a task with more 
than one context is viewed with contexts grouped,  the task will appear in more 
than one place. I often have this situation; a task might have a context for 
where I want to address it, for the customer involved, and for the tool I need. 
It would be difficult and confusing to make a single task appear in multiple 
locations in a sort. There is also a consideration when a context includes 
another context, I can't work it out right now as I don’t have access to 
Windows. 

The most likely implementation of context sort would be an alphabetical sort of 
the contents of the Context field,  which would mean that the task would 
essentially be sorted by the context listed first. In my example, if I looked 
for tasks for a certain customer I would miss this one as it would be sorted 
under its location. This seems the kind tool that could leave new users 
confused and frustrated, I would suggest not proceeding without a proposal to 
avoid this pitfall. 

The suggestion to hide group headers has more promise.  You could make a view 
that's confusing but it would be easy to understand what went wrong and put the 
headers back if needed. 

If no one else objects I would suggest bringing this to Jira.  As you have 
expressed concern about learning Jira, let me spell it out for you. 
1. Using a large-screen device (tablet or PC) point your browser to 
MyLifeOrganized.net/mloissues
2. Click on a bar at the top called something like "report mlo beta issue"
3. Fill out and submit the form.
That's all!
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2

On Oct 6, 2015, J Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>To summarize:
>
>How can I create a view of (Active) Starred tasks that is either 
>A) sorted by Context?
>B) grouped by Context but have the Context rows hidden?
>
>thanks
>
>J
>
>On Friday, 2 October 2015 20:56:56 UTC+1, J Smith wrote:
>>
>> PS  OK, I have a partial solution which is to change the formatting
>of the 
>> Groups within Tree Format. This helps visually however I would still
>prefer 
>> not to have the Group By names (i.e. the rows containing Context
>names) 
>> visible as I regard them as both slightly distracting and a waste of 
>> vertical space.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 2 October 2015 20:27:17 UTC+1, J Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello 
>>>
>>> I have found a weirdness / possible bug. 
>>>
>>> I am trying to create a View that shows: 
>>> - All my Active tasks that I have given Stars and then 
>>> - to have them grouped by Context. 
>>>
>>> This is easily achieved by having an Advanced Filtering with
>(Starred) 
>>> ticked and then going to the 
>>> "Group by" screen and setting "Group Items By" to "Context"
>>>
>>> So far so good. 
>>>
>>> However  I am finding the rows with Context names in them to be too 
>>> visually distracting. And although unticking "Show Items count in
>groups" 
>>> removes the count on the Context rows, I cannot remove the Group
>names by 
>>> unticking "Show Group Name".
>>> Ideally I would like to get rid of the entire row with the Context
>name 
>>> in it, (because I can already see the Context for each Task in the
>Context 
>>> column that I have set up).
>>>
>>> Furthermore, the tickbox under "Group Items By" that is called "This
>
>>> Group Expanded" does not appear to have any affect whatsoever as to
>whether 
>>> or not the group actually is expanded (a bug surely!). Given the
>choice I 
>>> would like the groups to be expanded by default although this is not
>
>>> crucial I guess.
>>>
>>> A simpler solution might have been simply to have sorted by Context,
>
>>> however perhaps strangley "Filter" ==> "Group & Sort" ==> "Sort
>Tasks by" 
>>> does not list the Context field as being an option.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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