Thank you Dwight. I'm not sure what the reason was, but it seems to have self-rectified. However, knowing that I can work out what's going on if it happens again is a big help.
Thank you. On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 17:13:31 UTC+1, Dwight wrote: > > Hi, Stephen > If the tasks are black rather than green in your task list this means that > they are currently inactive. There are at least seven different things that > can make a task inactive. I could go through a whole tutorial here on > criteria for designating a task "active" but that would probably just > confuse you. So instead, why don't you just ask your tasks to tell you why > they are not active? > 1. Pick a task that is black but that you think should definitely be active > 2. Click on the task so that it gets a light blue background, meaning that > it is the currently selected task > 3. Find the Task Properties sidebar on the right side of the screen. The > title bar at the top should show the name of your selected task > 4. within the sidebar, find the section headings, which have a gray > background. Scroll down until you find a section header saying "Task > Statistics" > 5. In the task statistics section look for "Action". This will tell you > whether the task is active or not and if it is inactive it will tell you > why. > > Assuming that your tasks actually are inactive, when you see the reason > you may know right away what to do. If not, check several other tasks and > see what reasons are given for their inactive status. If you don't > understand the reason or you don't know how to fix it, write back. Be sure > to copy the reason for inactive status carefully, no typos! > -Dwight > > On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 7:01:30 AM UTC-4, Stephen Gadd wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This is my first day with MLO. I appear to have switched off MLO's >> flagging of the Next Actions. Whereas before, active tasks would turn green >> and be viewable under the To Do/Active Actions view, they are all now >> either black (tasks) or blue (projects) with my To Do/Active Actions view >> completely empty. Not sure what I have done! >> >> Any help greatly appreciated. >> > -- 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/2e99abb3-0c73-4f47-92cb-42975eb3a33a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
