Dwight, thanks for your thorough reply. I have been playing around more with the 'complete tasks in order' option and folders and I think I have made things work. Your second scenario is the most useful for me. I seem to be getting all my current tasks listing well now.
I'm planning the kitchen repair job as a test to see if this is something I could use to plan an entire build in MLO. Any experience getting a Gantt chart from an MLO export? On Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 9:28:21 PM UTC-8, Dwight wrote: > > Hi, Rob. The way you are looking at it makes a lot of sense, unfortunately > That's Not How It Works. > > An explicitly coded dependency means that the branch with the dependent > task at its root is inactive until the trigger task has been completed. So > your two hole-drilling tasks are a part of the branch rooted at reinstall > kitchen plywood, therefore neither of them can become active until the > dependency is satisfied. There are several ways to code exactly what you > want without using dependencies, to avoid confusion I will just tell you > two of them. If you don't like either one please write back and say why and > I will send you another. > > FIRST SCENARIO > >Cut Out Hole for HW Heater (complete subtasks in order) > >Drill holes for HW Heater Power Line > >Drill holes for waterlines > >Reinstall Kitchen wall plywood (dependent on reseal vapor barrier) > >Paint Kitchen Walls > etc > > This scenario is not exactly what you wanted. It will allow the two > drilling tasks to become active before the vapor barrier is resealed, but > the plywood will not be reinstalled until the vapor barrier is done. But > the problem is that the waterline drilling will remain inactive until the > powerline drilling is marked complete. That is not quite what you wanted. > So here is a second scenario: > > SECOND SCENARIO > >Cut Out Hole for HW Heater (complete subtasks in order) > >[folder]Drilling > >Drill holes for HW Heater Power Line > >Drill holes for waterlines > >Reinstall Kitchen wall plywood (dependent on reseal vapor barrier) > >Paint Kitchen Walls > etc > > The option to complete subtasks in order will force sequential completion > on Drilling and on plywood reinstall. The Drilling item will not appear on > your task list because its a folder. The tro actual drilling tasks will be > free of the sequential requirement because the folder interrupts the > requirement. So, when the hot water heater branch becomes available, the > two drilling tasks will appear on your to-do list at the same time. > Reinstallation of the plywood is waiting for two things: the completion of > all (both) of the subtasks under the drilling folderm and satisfaction of > the dependency on the vapor barrier. When the two drilling tasks and the > vapor barrier are complete then the plywood task will become active. > > > On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 10:26:11 AM UTC-5, Rob Feeny wrote: >> >> I'm planning out a repair job to a kitchen in a tiny house and I'm >> running into what appears to be a bug to me. If it's not a bug, can someone >> explain what is happening to me? What happens is that when I set a >> dependency for a task, all its subtasks (children) seem to now depend on >> that as well. This doesn't seem right to me. I have run into it with >> several things but the example I have included in my screen shot is this: >> >> I need to re-install a sheet of plywood that goes behind the kitchen >> counter units. I can't install that until the wall vapor barrier is >> resealed because that will be behind the plywood, so I created a dependency >> on that task (because it is also part of the "re-install drywall" task). >> But also, before the plywood can be re-installed, I need to measure out and >> drill some holes in it. That can be done anytime as it doesn't depend on >> anything. Those tasks are children of the "Re-install plywood" task. But >> they are not showing as available (turning green) nor appearing in the >> to-do. >> >> I can understand the parent tasks of "Re-install plywood" not being >> available as both children (water line holes, power hole) need to be >> complete, as well as the vapor barrier dependency complete, but why would >> the water line hole and power line hole depend on the vapor barrier task? >> If I remove the "Reseal vapor barrier task" dependency from "Reinstall >> plywood" they show up immediately. >> >> Can someone explain? >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--Z-a2Y_8kew/WIIpx3tDzaI/AAAAAAAApsc/oZUx0Fg_VTM-GjEIF-9BHeg7BMJepsKjQCLcB/s1600/MLO.png> >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/f088cf2c-2d1c-4edd-bde2-69d6cbabff72%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
