Oh, sorry, I thought you were Andrey! And the hierarchy bugs were something that frustrated me a while back when I started to use MLO.
Yes I'd love to join the beta testing team, thank you! On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 1:50:21 AM UTC-8 Andrei Bacean wrote: > hi > > i'm a user like you, and i can be wrong sometimes ;) > Please do not confuse me with Andrey, the developer. > > Regarding how MLO treats hierarchy filtering, I'm used to this behavior of > the program for long time, and I considered it to be normal. > By the way, would you like to join the MLO beta testing team? Sorry, maybe > you have been already asked to apply. > > Have a nice day > > best regards > Andrew > > > > среда, 27 января 2021 г. в 10:44:22 UTC+2, [email protected]: > >> 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/95ce9e71-8d2b-4c32-b6f5-6fb24ca587b6n%40googlegroups.com.
