Thanks both! I can use both approaches - Dewight’s for something else On Friday, October 23, 2020 at 2:41:40 AM UTC+2 Dwight wrote:
> Susannah's answer is better than what I'm going to propose because it's > very flexible and easy to understand. I'm still going to share my > suggestion because it's a different approach. > > *Make a view that shows active tasks and tasks that are starred. *(This > assume that you are not already using the star for something - otherwise > use something else, for example a text-tag of "hot" or a special context or > something else. > > Then, when there's a task that's not "next" that you want shown, just turn > on the star (or text-tag or context, whatever you used) and the task will > join all of your active tasks. > > OK, how do you make a view that shows active and starred tasks? It's a > little tricky: Make a copy of your active actions view. Change the Show > Actions filter from Active to All (because some of the starred items are > not considered active. > > Then use Add Advanced to add the following filter: > ((Starred) OR ((ActiveAction) AND ((StartDateTime does not exist) OR > (StartDateTime on or before Now))) > > The reason for this complexity is that "ShowActions: Active" and advanced > filter "ActiveActions" are not quite the same. "ShowActions:Active" > excludes any task with a future start time. In order to build views like > ActiveNext7Days you need to be able to include tasks that meet all the > criteria for being active except that their start date is in the future, > and that's what advanced filter "ActiveActions" does. In order to get the > same results as "ShowActions:Active"we need to exclude tasks with future > start dates. But remember that MLO filters dont say what to exclude, they > say what to INclude. To exclude tasks with future start dates, you have to > include tasks with no start date, as well as tasks with a start date that's > not in the future, in other words on or before now. Mahe sense? > > -Dwight > On 10/22/2020 10:34, Susannah wrote: > > Yes leave "Complete subtasks in order" UNCHECKED. Then use the > Dependencies farther down that pane. Add the task that has to be completed > before this one becomes active. It gives a lot more flexibility. For > Example Task A and B are both active so have no dependencies. Task C will > be active when both A and B are done so it has the Dependencies of Task A > and B OR Task C is active when Task A is complete thus only has Task A as a > dependency. > Susannah > > On Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 4:41:22 AM UTC-4 Grant wrote: > >> I have a few projects where I have set the 'complete tasks in order' >> enabled. This works for the core plan, but often I run into something >> small I need to do in addition to the Next Task on a particular day for the >> project. Thus I want both to show on my active tasks view. Is there a way >> to do this with a setting, etc (rather than a work around like two sub >> project folders, etc)? >> >> Thanks >> Grant >> > -- > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/2d50014e-b03e-4dd0-8213-251119587f9fn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/2d50014e-b03e-4dd0-8213-251119587f9fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/769b9a98-e1b9-416a-acc2-90be0ca4e3a3n%40googlegroups.com.
