Hi Dwight,
Apologies for the extremely late reply. The length of time it took me to
get around to fixing this shows you how ineffective I am at getting through
my MLO task list. (Or, well, the relative priority I assigned to this
task..)
Your answer makes perfect sense and your suggestion worked. Thanks!
On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 4:20:26 AM UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote:
>
> Hi, Nishant. You have focused in on what is probably the most confusing
> aspect of Advanced Rules and you have done a surprisingly accurate analysis
> of it.
>
> The ActiveAction advanced filter is different from the Actions:Active
> general filter. One of the seven conditions tested by Actions:Active is
> start date/time, if any, must not be in the future. ActiveActions does not
> include this test, it tests only six of the seven conditions that can make
> an item inactive. Put another way, the Actions:Active general filter tests
> for tasks that are active now, while the ActiveActions advanced filter
> tests for tasks that will become active in the future.
>
> If you want to filter for items that are active right now, using advanced
> filters, the spec is ((ActiveAction) AND ((StartDateTime onOrBefore Now) OR
> (StartDateTime doesNotExist)))
>
> A work on constants: NOW is the exactly current time and date. TODAY is
> today's date but the time is midnight as of the beginning of today. TODAY+1
> is tomorrow's date but the time is midnight as of the beginning of
> tomorrow. TODAY+1 is essentially the same thing as the end of today.
>
> So,
>
> To include tasks that will start between now and the end of today, the
> spec is
>
> ((StartDateTime onOrAfter Now) AND (StartDateTime onOrBefore Today+1))
>
> -Dwight
>
> On 6/22/2016 2:31 PM, Nishant Tharani wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble using the advanced rules system to filter out a
> specific type of task - one that starts today, but at a time in the future
> (eg at 11pm today, when it's 6pm right now).
>
> If I use the 'general' panel of the Filter window, I notice that this
> action disappears when I select 'Actions: Active', and reappears when I
> select 'Actions: All'. It also appears in black text instead of the green
> text for other actions with a start time in the past. This leads me to
> believe that the action is not an active action, so I can filter it that
> way.
>
> But, when I used the advanced rules panel to add a rule specifying that
> only Active Actions be shown ('ActiveAction is true'), the task remains
> visible. So does the advanced rules section have a different definition of
> 'Active Action' than the general section of the Filter panel?
>
> (Due to other filters I have set up, I can't simply use the General
> 'Actions: Active' setting to filter this action out, but I assume the same
> functionality should be possible using the more powerful Advanced rules
> window).
>
> Hopefully that made sense - any help appreciated!
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