Hi Dwight Most of my tasks are single context, but yes, I do see the problem of multiple contexts.
Hmm, tricky. I guess what I would want is for the view to be broken out into a list of "contains <whatever> context"... but you're going to tell me that this would be completely beyond the way MLO currently does things, right? Thanks J On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:00:34 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > 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] <javascript:>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> 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/3274c30f-c6d0-4f3f-950f-320924d3f104%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/3274c30f-c6d0-4f3f-950f-320924d3f104%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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