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
>>
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