It seems that none of this should be necessary if parent and child filtering worked correctly.
In another thread, you wrote a clear explanation of how they should work: > Hierarchical views are created in two steps (well, more really but only two that matter to this discussion) First, the main and advanced filters are applied to create a flat list of items that pass the filter at that level. The second step makes it hierarchical: the children and/or parents (per your request) are attached to each of the items that passed step one. The children and/or parents are filtered based **not** on the main and advanced filters but on the child filter and/or parent filter (click the “config” button after the Show Hierarchy filter). Then the resulting trees are merged and your view is ready. https://groups.google.com/g/mylifeorganized/c/daBDITQn-Ek/m/d47Dc_F7iAkJ But as this user points out, parent and child filters sometimes exclude tasks that pass the main filters, which should never happen. On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 3:46:54 PM UTC-7 Dwight wrote: > I can come close but not perfect. Try this: set the main filter to > whatever you have in mind <or> (is project with subtasks). Configure > hierarchy to show children but not parents, and configure the child filter > to your original filter criterion. > > Result, just what I think you want, with one exception: if a project that > has subtasks all of which fail the original filter then the project should > be excluded but it is in fact included. > Example, I have a profile with two contexts, @set and @clear. I want to > see all of the @set tasks and any parent that is a project. > > Full profile > > > Main Filter > > > Hierarchy filter > > > Children Filter > > > Result > > Result looks good to me except that "project with clear child" and > "project with clear grandchild" should not be displayed. > > > On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 4:14:10 AM UTC-4, Amir Rachum wrote: >> >> What I want is to have a view with a certain filter (doesn't matter) and >> include the parent item only if it's a project. >> When creating a filter for a custom view, there is a "Show Hierarchy" >> option. In the "Config" dialog, I can choose "Include Parent Item" and >> configure a filter for the parent items. >> However, if I set the filter to "IsProject = true", then I only get items >> that are in a project. That is, items that are included in my main filter >> are not shown if they are not children of a project. >> What I want is to get *all* items in my filter, but show the parent only >> if it's a project. Is that possible? >> > -- 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/d35bd9f4-d85b-4e11-a9ce-53f458a15a13n%40googlegroups.com.
