Hi, Riann. I read your post more carefully and I see that I misunderstood you.
"Hide branch in to-do" is a property of a branch, not a context. You turn this property on by selecting an item (task, folder or project) and ticking a checkbox in the right hand panel in the "general" section. Once you turn this on, the item and all of its descendants be considered inactive and will not appear in any list of active items, such as the to-do list. But you are talking about setting a property of a context. I believe that you are referring to the property "hide this context in the to-do list filter." It sounds pretty similar but has a very different meaning. This property is turned on by selecting a context and then ticking a checkbox in the Properties tab of the Manage Contexts (f8) window. Then, if you go back to the task list and look at the right hand panel you should see the specifications for the filter of the current view. (If you see a list of views, click on the work "Views" at the top to switch to the filter specifications.) In the specifications you should see a section called Contexts. In that section among other things is a list of contexts and you can use it to restrict your view to show only tasks with the contexts you select.However, any context with "hide this context in the to-do list filter" turned on will be hidden from this list. So if you turned on this checkbox for context "someday", and you go into the view "Active Actions" you will be able to pick a context like @work and see only the active actions in the @work context, but you will not be able to create a list of active someday actions because the someday context has been hidden from this filter. Which sounds like it is not at all what you want. Try this: go to the Manage Contexts window (f8), select the someday context, and click the "Hours" tab, then the "always closed" button and then close. Any task whose only context is someday will now vanish from the to-do lists because that context is (always) closed. Remember that if you give a task two contexts (for example someday and work) the task will be displayed in to-do lists so long as at least one context is open. On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 5:59:24 AM UTC-5, Riaan Eloff wrote: > > Hi Dwight, thanks for the reply. Ok, so when I say "TODO", I mean the > "TODO" icon in the left pane of MLO for windows. It has several sub-icons: > Active by context, active by project, etc. Mostly I use Active by > Context. Sometimes simply Active Tasks. So, yes, that's the TODO I'm > referring to. So, the views I currently use are the default views with > which MLO starts. Please advise troubleshooting process? > > On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:02:30 UTC+2, Dwight Arthur wrote: >> >> Hi, Riaan. Could you please be a little more specific about what you are >> doing when you "go to todo list"? Do you mean that you load a particular >> view? What view is it? >> >> Hidden tasks are excluded from the Active Actions view. If you are seeing >> them in an unmodified Active Actions view, then we have some >> troubleshooting to do. >> >> If you are using some other view then we need to see whether that view >> has a (HideInToDo is False) rule in the advanced filter - this is what >> makes the hidden tasks not appear. >> >> On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 3:49:55 AM UTC-5, Riaan Eloff wrote: >>> >>> Hi Dwight, >>> >>> I have a someday context. I have gone into the context (F8) and >>> selected "HIDE IN TODO LIST", yet, when going to todo list it shows >>> up...what am I doing wrong? >>> >>> -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/0a8b5811-e76c-4583-bbee-64c1ab7ff2e6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
