Thank you Alyona, I liked what you were saying, I just could not understand why I had no button right there where your screenshot shows the "Discard changes". Obviously, I could not click it until it was there...
Now I found out I have to expand by clicking "^ Filter" and then the Views collapse to show that. Interesting you cannot save a view until you hide the views. Then as I was right you cannot save Outline (defaut view) so I saved as "Outline1". Now I have what I needed. I've mentioned that I had not been using filters and maybe I knew 10 years ago. Now I see the button, which answers my other question how to even save a filter. Obviously, those options weren't available until I learned to expand that. Also I am just suggesting that if you click on a heading that says "Task Name" you would know it will change sort order by that specifically, so maybe someone could think of better wording for users to know. I had thought maybe clicking it could change to not show All or something. At least you finally told me what it means, but I didn't know if that asterisk was there before so it all seemed so cryptic. Documenting is hard but I hope you have that explained someplace. Thanks again On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 6:13:43 AM UTC-6 Alyona (MLO Support) wrote: > The asterisk in "View: *All tasks > >" means that the view has unsaved > changes. It is no longer the same as it was by default or last saved. In > your case it changed when you clicked on the heading. > > You can "Discard changes" to revert the view to its original state. Or, it > may be enough to only disable that alphabetical sorting - this can be done > in the filter settings <https://prnt.sc/f6d-zaoer17E>: Filter -> > Group&Sort -> Sort -> set sorting to (None). > > We agree that this should be clearer, and we will consider improvements. > Thank you for the comments, we really appreciate them. > > On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 10:59:52 PM UTC+1 imajeff wrote: > >> Interesting; I've never seen a "save view" button let alone any "Discard >> changes". This is the "Outline" tab, a default; Is that what a view is, >> each tab? I struggle just to get something I can be productive with, so I >> don't have time to create special views. >> Is this documented, whatever you are referring to? >> >> The heading I clicked only says "View: *All tasks > >" so there was not >> even any indication it would try to sort top-level tasks in alphabetical >> order. There is lack of communication as well as the problem I didn't even >> know what had been done or if I needed to undo until later. >> >> The thing is, if a "saved" view is listing each task and in my custom >> order, do you mean when I clicked that heading which sorted by alphabetical >> order, there is no "alphabetical order" mode being saved? It just >> independently saves an order which happened to be alphabetical that time? >> Is that why there is no way to change the sort back to not alphabetical? >> This is perplexing, from a design point of view. >> >> On Friday, May 27, 2022 at 8:52:32 AM UTC-6 Alyona (MLO Support) wrote: >> >>> I am sorry that you faced this issue. By clicking "Discard changes" (here >>> <https://prnt.sc/3d4D1jCV7EYA>is the screenshot) you should be able to >>> get to the original outline if you previously saved your view. >>> >>> On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 10:56:01 PM UTC+1 imajeff wrote: >>> >>>> Now my order of the outline is all messed up because I thought, "no way >>>> it would mess up the order when I carefully created tasks in the logical >>>> order I need in my outline!" >>>> Why would anybody want to mess that up? And is there any way to get my >>>> original outline back after it changed top level to alphabetical order? >>>> Seriously it should not have changed any order when I clicked the heading >>>> of the main All Tasks view unless there was a way to restore the order I >>>> created and dragged tasks to. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 12:57:10 AM UTC-6 patricio... wrote: >>>> >>>>> hi All, I'm facing this same issue Radek describes here. is it a bug >>>>> or sorting only works at level zero by design? >>>>> >>>>> thanks! >>>>> >>>>> Patricio. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 8:05:44 AM UTC-3 radek... wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> When I enable Hierarchy in Custom View Settings, then the hierarchy >>>>>> items don't respond to sort by setting. Even when I set multiple levels >>>>>> of >>>>>> sort by (due date, due date, due date), the items displayed through the >>>>>> Show hierarchy option are not being sorted and are displayed as they are >>>>>> in >>>>>> the task list. I think this is either a bug a there should be a >>>>>> secondary >>>>>> sort by option added to the Hierarchy settings section. >>>>> >>>>> -- 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/1e02ca52-eb35-45f6-97a4-9d930e18adb8n%40googlegroups.com.
