Hi all,
I realized and it works as expected. Dependencies is the solution for displaying/not displaying tasks the filtering “Next Actions by Projects”. This, in my opinion, is the solution for Project status NotStarted, since that projects category will remain halted until I decide to start it (or them). As is mentioned in my last post, MLO has all ingredients for this approach. In the filter “Next Actions by Projects”, if a task pertains to a project and cannot start before another one it is dependent, it will not be displayed in this view. If, additionally, we group such tasks by project and the project (Parent Task) depends on another task to start (or restart) it will not be displayed until that is completed. This is great for two reasons: First we can manage NotStarted projects in relation to dependent tasks, to start a project, and this way we avoid NotStarted projects tasks to be ticked off, even accidentally, since it will not display in the filter. But, this will not happen if there will not have non-dependent tasks in the process: the NotStarted projects tasks will display and ticked off accidentally (undesirable). This raises the same issues for Suspended and Completed project statuses (for me, all suspended and completed project statuses tasks should be disabled until one change to NotStarted, InProgress statuses) So, I let this into consideration of MLO Team to solve this. BR. M. De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Em nome de MG Enviada: sábado, 8 de junho de 2019 14:50 Para: MyLifeOrganized <[email protected]> Assunto: [MLO] Re: Project Statuses and Autoformat Rules Hi Dwight, Thank you for your reply. Regarding Project Management procedures, I can understand the NotStarted project status. But, let me disagree with you, at a certain point, about Suspended status. I agree with you when you approach Suspended status like NotStarted in some cases, but I disagree if I see the other side of Suspended status. I mean, there are projects, in life that will be suspended at all and will “never” re-start, which means their child tasks should never be ticked off until we change the status to InProgress or NotStarted. You question “Perhaps I would want to record these tasks within the project?” I would reply: yes, since they are part of the project. If I would not record such tasks within the project, but need them to be solved before it to start, that would lead me to the concept of Tasks Dependencies, before the change of project status to “re-start” (manually). I hope it makes sense and think MLO Team should manage it, so that all tasks would not be enabled for being ticked off when in a Suspended status. P.S. - I will try to manage these tasks relationship so that MLO Win autoformat reach my needs about project managemet statuses (NotStarted and Suspended) and dependecies, because I thing all ingredients are there. BR M. On Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 6:50:28 AM UTC+2, Dwight wrote: HI, MG. I understand that you are confused by the lack of a more automated connection between project status and the status of tasks within the project. Also, I understand that you do not think it makes sense to work on a task that's part of a project that's suspended or not started. If you have different issues than this then I misunderstood, please clarify. I cannot do anything about providing you a more automated connection, only the developers can do that. I can explain why I would work on tasks in a project that's not started or is suspended. I use MLO to manage projects which I do for clients. Billing is generally an hourly rate plus expenses. The tasks involved in planning, execution, and delivery are billable, I track the hours and bill at the agreed-upon rate per hour. There are also non-billable tasks, like preparing a proposal, pre-sales negotiation, billing and collection. Different people manage projects like this different ways; I open the project when the billable hours commence, and close it when the billable hours are complete. So, when I am working on pre-sales, for example, the project is not yet open but the task is active. -Dwight On Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 6:28:19 PM UTC-4, MG wrote: Hi all, Any ideas? Can anyone help me, please? Thanks MG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/29ETonYVd0Y/unsubscribe> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mylifeorganized/29ETonYVd0Y/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]. 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