What A.W. is showing on the screenshot doesn't obviously work, that's why I
was asking :)
I understand that it's not clear why I use contexts in this seemingly odd
way, so let me briefly tell you.
The reasons for having time of day parent context with morning, noon,
afternoon, evening, night children contexts are follows:
- the contexts are set in a way, that all the children contexts have
restricted open hours and the parent is opened all day
- this allows to set all kinds of filters
- in advanced filtering, I can simply use the parent time of day
context with consider open hours option, so that the views only show
tasks
opened during the current part of the day
- or I don't have to restrict it in views setup and only add
filtering in ad-hoc workspace filters. either for current time (via
parent)
or for specific time of the day (i.e. a view that always shows morning
tasks)
- it also frees additional filtering and / or enables combination of
filtering with multiple contexts, that wouldn't otherwise be possible
- my context system is still developing and is still somehow overblown,
so I might procrastinate with settings contexts for new task. To work
around that, I have the parent time of day context set as a context to be
inherited to all subtasks from the top level folders, therefore the newly
created tasks show in the filtered lists as soon as possible..... and
restricting the task to a given children timeslot is an optional next
step...
- ...so as a part of my workflow, it's my responsibility to remove the
general technical time of day parent context and change it to some children
context such as evening
- however sometimes, I obviously mess up and leave the parent context
assigned as well, therefore making the child context open hours restriction
not work as intended (the tasks shows up during all day even though I want
it to show only during evening)
- therefore.... the filter I wanted to set up is a kind of a
"maintenance / administration" filter, that will list the tasks that have
unintentionally / accidentally assigned both the parent and child contexts,
so that I can remove the parent one from all of the tasks in the list
- the problem is, that no matter what I tried, the lists also shows the
tasks that are already processed correctly to the point of having only the
child context and having parent context already removed....
- ... which makes the maintenance of such context assignments impossible
On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 16:18:07 UTC+2 Stéph wrote:
> I should have thought of that. Nice one, A.W.!
>
> Like you say, I can't understand the point in this particular case,
> because you only need to assign the specific time of day contexts for an
> overall "time of day" filter to work. Maybe Radek's workflow involves
> assigning "time of day" to identify those items which will need to be
> assigned to a specific time of day, before he comes back and defines which
> time of day each one needs to be assigned to? If so, then maybe he needs to
> see which items he's flagged as needing a time of day, but which haven't
> yet been assigned to a specific time of day.
>
> Maybe I'm over-thinking this, though! :-D
>
> On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 07:44:45 UTC+1 A. W. wrote:
>
>> what sense that has content wise i am not sure.
>> however technically you can create an advanced filter - see picture.
>> This filter does what you want - if i understood your ask. Is basically
>> the translation of your sentence into a formula in MLO - advanced filter.
>> Of course this filter must not conflict with any other standard filter
>> which is active.
>> It becomes tricky if you want to use this logic to filter within the
>> hierachy, which is possible too.
>> MLO is quite powerfull in filtering...
>> [image: MLO-1.jpg]
>>
>> Radek Pilich schrieb am Sonntag, 11. Juni 2023 um 20:24:56 UTC+2:
>>
>>> Simple - let's say I have parent context "time of day" that includes
>>> morning, afternoon, evening contexts.
>>>
>>> I want to list tasks, that have both time of day + morning assigned
>>> while also excluding tasks that have morning assigned but don't have time
>>> of day assigned.
>>>
>>> How do I do that?
>>>
>>> On Monday, 5 June 2023 at 08:42:41 UTC+2 Stéph wrote:
>>>
>>>> Likewise, I'm struggling to understand that complex set of criteria.
>>>> Are you trying to find the tasks where their parent's context is missing?
>>>> If so, I can't find a way to do that precisely. However, you might want to
>>>> test from be parent's perspective by using "HasSubTasks" and "Contexts...
>>>> is empty" in your filter.
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, 3 June 2023 at 14:48:24 UTC+1 A. W. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hm. i think that making a step back and defining precisely what - not
>>>>> how - needs to be the outcome could be a reasonable next step.
>>>>> Currently i do not get - on the what level - what the plan to achieve
>>>>> is.
>>>>> If you want to discuss ;) - pick a time. sometimes explaining to
>>>>> somebody else solves the issue ;).
>>>>> https://calendly.com/deugister/one-on-one-with-me
>>>>>
>>>>> Radek Pilich schrieb am Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023 um 16:45:20 UTC+2:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I might be hungry or not thinking.....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot figure out how to set up filter conditions so that it
>>>>>> includes tasks that have both parent context and included child context
>>>>>> assigned AND at the same time doesn't include tasks, that have only the
>>>>>> included child context assigned, without having the parent context
>>>>>> assigned.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No matter what I try, I always get all the tasks, I cannot exclude
>>>>>> those that have only the included child context.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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