turn off inherit parent dates

[MCA]

Hi there,

with the update to v4 MLO made a huge step forward towards an even better outliner. Great job!!

As outlining is now better than ever before I have to re-raise a question a proposed a few month ago.

How can I turn off the inherit parent dates option that is on per default?

I - and I assume some other people around here - use a GTD setup where inheriting parent dates is contra productive... child-tasks are not always the typical child-tasks but are more or less independent in their start date or their date to be scheduled. I have to check off the inherit parent dates section EVERY time I add a new task below a parent...and that sucks.

Is there some workaround? Option-setting? Ini-file to be changed? Registry entry? to get rid of that behaviour?

if not... could this be implemented somehow? I assume other functionalities of the software don't depend on that being on per default so it shouldn't be that harmful, would it?

As an alternative, checking whether a task has set it to on or off via Auto-Format rule would also be ok to ensure at least which entry is still to be corrected...

Thanks in advance...

[Lisa Stroyan]

 Can you give us a little more detail? I'd be interested in what GTD setup you are referring to. Also, can you give an example of a parent with a date that the child shouldn't inherit? Sometimes when there are feature requests, there may be other ways to accomplish the same thing.

I do think there is a basic assumption in MyLifeOrganized that subtask means part of the parent task. I think it would change behavior significantly to have undated tasks as subtasks of parents that start in the future, just as one example.  Would the child be active, even though the parent hasn't started yet? 

Lisa

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Although you have to edit the dates and override the default, MLO has no problem creating an undated child of a future parent. Such a task is in fact considered active.

[Lisa Stroyan]

Sure enough. Is this new? For some reason, I thought it forced a date.

[Stéph]

+1 to the request.

This fits in with a request I made in another thread (possibly in the beta forum). I need to be able to inherit the end date, but set start date of a new task to the date it was entered. At the moment, the MLO is set to inherit start and due dates for any new tasks, which means more clicks and slower task entry. I'd like to be able to customise the defaults for new task dates and contexts (to inherit from parent, inherit from sibling, set to today or leave unset), as I used to be able to do with Natara's Bonsai.

Stéphane