Dwight Just one small point:
> 2. Fill in the fields, [starred] [is false] [and] should surely read: > 2. Fill in the fields, [starred] [is *true*] [and] Otherwise... Brilliant! (as ever) Re the usability of the interface I caught myself saying out loud "You have got to be joking. Un bl**dy believable." and "You practically need to do a PhD on it to work it out." Many thanks J On 11 October 2015 at 22:49, Dwight Arthur <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> wrote: >> >> I just rediscovered the "Show Hierarchy" (Y/N) option which is great. 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