Wow, thanks for the detailed response Dwight. I could have sworn that it happened in an outline view - i have a bunch of views that i save to the cloud and then duplicate in my other MLO instances. It's possible that I had 'manual sort' enabled in one of these views. I am going to do some research when I get a chance and see if I can't replicate the problem. Maybe it's like you say and the sort order was manually set :)
Thanks again for the info. On Sunday, December 25, 2016 at 10:42:56 AM UTC-5, Dwight wrote: > > Hi, d00g. Let's start by reviewing the difference between outline order > and display order. > > Your tasks are saved in your profile in an outline. If you do "collapse > all" (f6 on Windows) you will see the root items (tasks, projects and > folders) in their outline order. If you click on the triangle-shaped > "twisty" in front of one of the root items it will reveal that item's next > layer of subtasks, and so on to the bottom, or you can just hit f7 to fully > expand the outline. The order that the tasks are in, in the outline, is the > outline order. > > When you do a full synch (as opposed to branch synch) to another device > the procedure preserves the outline order (as opposed to the display order, > discussed below) across devices. I have never experienced a failure to > preserve outline order, I don't recall anyone else reporting such a thing, > and if it were to happen it would mark quite a serious bug. I doubt that > this is what's happening to you. > > Whenever you are looking at a display of your tasks, the formatting and > content of the display are defined by a *vie*w. You may not have > explicitly chosen a view but it's there, controlling your display. In the > left sidebar in windows (different methods in Mobile) you can bring up the > specifications controlling your current view. One of the sections is called > *sort > *and it controls the display order. > > The sort section can call for three types of sort order. My names for them > are outline order, manual sort, or programmed sort. In outline order the > items are displayed in exactly the same order as they are stored in the > outline. In manual sort, you drag the tasks into the order you want and > they stay in that order until you move them. In a programmed sort, you > select some fields within the item, like importance, or context, or due > date and the view shows the tasks sorted as you specify. > > If you look at the sort section of your current view definition you will > see an on/off selector for manual sort. If this is on, you are seeing your > tasks in manual sort order. If it is off, you are seeing either outline > order or programmed sort. There is a list of several sort criteria in the > sort section. If manual sort is off and the criteria all say something like > (none) then you are seeing outline order. If any of the criteria show > anything other than none, then you are seeing a programmed sort. > > These sort selections do not get propagated by synch. If you change a sort > selection on one device and you want to see it on another device, you have > to make the same change on the other device. Or you could export the > changed view, copy the export file to the other device and import it. > > Also, manual sort is specific to a view. That is, you could have two > manually sorted views on the same device, and the tasks could be in an > entirely different order in each view. Reordering tasks in one view will > have no effect on the task order in the other view. > > Manual task order is synched for only one view, the starred view. There is > no way to enamel manual order synching for any other view. > > One last wrinkle: it is unfortunately very easy to turn on manual ordering > without meaning to do so or knowing that you did. > > Ok, the diagnosis: I suspect that your tasks are actually in the same > outline order on your two devices but that the sort selection is different, > causing a different display order. Second guess: you are displaying your > tasks in manual sort order and the manual order is not propagating. > > Please look at the sort order on your two devices. If it is different, > please change it to be the same. If you are using manual order, did you are > doing so intentionally, please consider using the Starred view, which is > the only one which synch the manual order. Otherwise please consider > giving up on manual sort. Using the All Tasks view, turn off manual sort > and set all of the sort criteria to "none" and you will see the tasks in > outline order. Do this on both devices and changes to task ordet made on > one device will be synched to the other. When using drag and drop to > reorder tasks, if you get a popup asking if you are trying to enable manual > sort, say "no". > > Hope this helps, > > On December 21, 2016 3:38:24 AM d00g <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> So - here's a use case I encounter all the time: if I am in the Outline >> view, and I have a folder with, let's say, 3 tasks (Task 1, Task 2, Task >> 3)... and I check off "Complete Subtasks in order" for the folder - "Task >> 1" shows up in my action list as intended. >> >> However, after I sync to another computer, it gets the order mixed up >> (Task 2, Task 3, Task 1) - Now I cannot rely on my action list, because it >> will display "Task 2" as my next action. >> >> Is there a solution to this or am I stuck? >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 6:22:40 AM UTC-4, Andrey Tkachuk (MLO) >> wrote: >>> >>> MLO Sync does not support any View settings including manual sorting. >>> So if you create new views or change default views (including manual >>> sorting) they are not synced. >>> Manual sorting supported in Starred view only. So the order entered on >>> on PC will by synced to other PC or iPhone or BlackBerry or Android or >>> Windows Mobile. >>> >>> A. >>> >>> On Mar 10, 7:45 pm, uh Clem <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > It it possible to preserve manual sort order between two PCs when >>> > using the cloud sync? >>> > >>> > I know it can't be done when using the iPhone. But I just installed >>> > MLO on my laptop, and the sync worked fine EXCEPT that my manual sort >>> > order was overriden by automatic. (The items in the To-Do tab are the >>> > same, jsut not in the same order.) >>> > >>> > Now I'm afraid to sync back to the desktop, for fear of losing my >>> > carefully worked out sort order there. >>> > >>> > Does anyone know how this works? (I tried finding it in the forum and >>> > documentation, with no luck) >>> > >>> > Ideally, of course, I'd like to be able to drag things around in the >>> > manual sort order on either PC and have them reflected on the other >>> > one after syncing. 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