Actually, an undergraduate course in symbolic logic would suffice :-) -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On Oct 12, 2015, "Smith, John" <[email protected]> wrote: >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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