Before we start this new subject let's be totally clear that MLO's
approach to Boolean grouping is insufferably arcane and tedious. There's
no excuse for such a difficult interface, except perhaps that no one
except the hopeless geeks will even try to use it. The whole thing feels
as though it was designed in 1963. So John, please don't feel as though
you need to convince me that it could be improved.
I'm going to describe this in small steps. I know that you know much of
this already but I'm also writing this for future readers who stumbl
onto this post.
In the Setup Advanced Filtering window
1. hit the Add Rule button
2. Fill in the fields, [starred] [is false] [and]
3. hit the Add Rule button again. The first rule collapses to "(starred)
AND"
4. Do Not Enter Any Fields In The New (second) Rule!!!
5. Hit the Add Subrule button. The second rule collapses to ">"
6. Fill in the fields in the first subrule, [StartDateTime] [OnOrBefore]
[Now] [Or
7. Hit the Add Rule button. Maybe you would like to hit Add Subrule but
that would be incorrect. Thefirst subrule collapses without much change.
8. Fill in the fields in the second subrule [startDateTime] [does not
exist]. Ignore the trailing conjunction, it's nugatory.
9. Hit the [-] button before the second (empty) rule. The two subrules
collapse to "((StartDateTime on or beforeNow) OR (StartDateTime does not
exist))"
Voila, there are your brackets.
BTW Now is an undocumented but supported variable. You can make it even
more valuable by doing math with it. For example, to see all the tasks
that you have postponed for two hours, try
((StartDateTime on or after Now) AND (StartDateTime on or before Now + 2H))
-Dwight
MLO Betazoid on Windows, Cloud and Android SGN2
On 10/11/2015 9:54 AM, John . Smith wrote:
Thanks.
Ok new problem. I put things into the future quite a lot e.g. using
hotkey "Alt/S" followed by "2H" so that it disappears for 2 hours.
That aspect of what it means to be "Active" was helpful for me. But
now with "All" actions showing these tasks are not disappearing.
In Advanced rules I already have "Starred is true" so I added AND
"StartDateTime" - "on or before" - "now",
however the result is that items that do now have a Start Date set are
removed!
(Fwiw, "now" appears to be undocumented... but seems to work )
What I need is
"Starred is true" AND
( "StartDateTime" - "on or before" - "now", OR
"StartDateTime" - "does not exist" )
However I can't work out how to put the brackets in !
On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 2:17:14 PM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote:
Don't overlook the [Config] button to the right of Show Hierarchy.
You might find it useful, for example, to set a parent filter
that includes parents only if they are starred.
Caution: filtered hierarchies can be confusing. For example, if
you show starred tasks and their starred parents, and a starred
task has an unstarred parent and a starred grandparent, the
parent will be shown to protect the integrity of the hierarchy
even though that seems to violate the parent filter. Also, if
your filter produces overlapping subtrees they will be merged
which can produce confusing results until you figure out what's
happening.
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On Oct 11, 2015, "John . Smith" <[email protected] <javascript:>>
wrote:
I just rediscovered the "Show Hierarchy" (Y/N) option which is
great. I shall now experiment with using both!
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