Or, maybe not - Andrei now says this is a bug! On Monday, January 25, 2021 at 11:38:31 PM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:
> > 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. > > Dwight, did you see Andrei's latest video: > https://groups.google.com/g/mylifeorganized/c/0Df7e26Gk5I > > Apparently this is *not* how it works - the parent filter actually > controls whether items pass the main filter based on their parents. > > On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:47:01 AM UTC-7 Dwight Arthur wrote: > >> Hi, John. I don’t understand your situation well enough to be able to >> help you with a solution but I can talk through MLO’s concept of filtered >> hierarchies and maybe it will help. >> >> >> >> It appears to me that you want to apply a filter to your hierarchy and >> have it applied across all the levels of your hierarchy. Unfortunately it’s >> not that simple. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> I’m not sure if this is what you are after, but you could try turning >> Show Completed to Yes in the main filter and adding a child filter, >> Complete is False >> >> >> >> None of this explains why you would get a nearly empty view when you set >> the main filter for Show Completed to No. We would have to dig further – if >> you don’t need to investigate this question that’s great, otherwise please >> let us know whether the project or any level parent of the missing tasks >> were completed. If not, to investigate this further I would ask you to post >> your profile file to the forum – if you do not want to publish the actual >> contents of your profile (I wouldn’t) maybe you could create a new blank >> profile, set up some dummy projects and tasks and reproduce the situation >> there, and then post it. >> >> -Dwight >> >> >> >> *On* Monday, March 16, 2015 11:22 AM, John Lewis Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >> Advanced Filter settings are default for "By due date" view (DueDateTime >> / Exists). >> >> -- 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/08eb7462-6552-417b-bc73-5d5649945dfdn%40googlegroups.com.
