Hello Dwight, Thanks again for devoting your time and ideas to my little problem... Perhaps the issue is that MLOi doesn’t work the same as MLO<something else>. What you described as a potential solution should work perfectly for me, but doesn’t. I just retested this - my new “Dwight” view (named in your honor, of course) is very unlike you, in that it is completely unresponsive. In MLOi terms, the settings are View Name - Dwight, Action Filter - Available, Advanced Filter - None, Group by - None, Sort by - Computed-score (Descending), Show Hierarchy - Yes, Include Parent items - On, Parent Filter - None, Include Child items - No. The order of the items displayed seems to be, to the best of my ability to discern any difference, completely unaffected by changing the Sort by order parameter between Descending and Ascending, or even omitting Computed-Score from the sort at all (i.e. Sort By - None). I also tried turning the “Continue searching in branch option” On and Off, to no effect.
If your testing is on a different platform and produces different results, then that must be the issue, and I’ve found a bug, it would seem. (As you accurately pointed out, whether it does what I want it to do or not is a completely different matter...) Thanks again for your assistance in narrowing this down - my first concern, as I’ve attempted to articulate, is that the sort mechanism in MLOi seems to do nothing when “Include Parent Items” is On. In my world (having been involved in software development since 1980), either it needs to do something or it needs to not be there... Your assistance may have brought to light a situation in which it works on one platform and not on another, which should make it much easier to track down, at least to the degree that I know whether my idea of how it should work is the same as the developers. On that topic, I see it as rather simple: within whatever other Group and Filter criteria are selected, sort everything by Computed Score and display them in that order, also displaying whatever Parent/Project/Folder hierarchy applies with them. I realize that this could create a rather convoluted-looking list, but it’s only in the display of it, and doesn’t really complicate the process in any way. That having been said, I do know that sort routines are rather fiddly, so I probably wouldn’t ever have brought this up if I couldn’t select the options I want, but since (it appears) I can select what (I think) I want, but just changing the order from Ascending to Descending, the simplest of all sorting changes, has absolutely no effect, my feeble brain starts to become agitated... Thanks again (very much!), Mark -- 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/c40a9e0a-42e0-4178-a2af-cd4557312a21%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
