Re: [MLO] Re: Skiping next task
Lisa Stroyan
Lisa
you shoul add a dependencie to the less important task.I mean : make the less important task waiting for the most important to be completed.
Le jeudi 12 juillet 2012 04:08:02 UTC+2, Michael G. a écrit :To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/VE81kZIUPRkJ.Hi,--I have templates set up for my projects and for the projects, I have "Complete subtasks in order" checked. This works fine but frequently I have "less important" tasks I have to skip and would like to show something that I want to work on next in the to-do list. I know I can move tasks up an down the list, but I like to keep them in order as I use folders to categorize tasks. Any suggestions on skipping a task or forcing another task to the the next action I work on?One other question, if I assign a due date to a task, is there any way to have this show in the to-do list even if it isn't the next task to be completed? Thanks.Regards-Michael G.
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When you say "Hide in todo", under the General section I see "Hide the branch in To-Do". I assume this is the same and it does exactly what I wanted.
I'm using the PC and Android version but on the PC I don't see anything about using Next Actions. ...What am I missing? I'm running the latest version 3.6.1. This isn't a big deal as it sounds like it isn't supported in Android.
A nice feature would be to have the task lisk change the to-do color from green to something else if a task in the folder was skipped so you're reminded to go back and check.
Michael G.
On Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:51:04 AM UTC-4, Lisa S wrote:
One way to skip a task, is to use "Hide-in-todo". Then the next task will become active. However, the "hide-in-todo" task never will, so you really are completely skipping it, not putting it off for later.If you are working only on the PC, you might consider another strategy, which is, don't use "complete in order" but then, in your views, use "Next Actions" in your actions filters. Next-Actions are the first in their folder that are active. That way, you can easily go back and forth between Next Actions and Active Actions views.Of course, this may present problems if you want most of your tasks to show everything but only certain projects to show next actions. You would need to use advanced filtering for this.(I thought there was an advanced criteria "NextAction is true/false" -- is my nonstandard version correct that this doesn't exist?)
Lisa
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:04 AM, robisme <robillar...@gmail.com> wrote:
you shoul add a dependencie to the less important task.I mean : make the less important task waiting for the most important to be completed.
Le jeudi 12 juillet 2012 04:08:02 UTC+2, Michael G. a écrit :To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/VE81kZIUPRkJ.Hi,--I have templates set up for my projects and for the projects, I have "Complete subtasks in order" checked. This works fine but frequently I have "less important" tasks I have to skip and would like to show something that I want to work on next in the to-do list. I know I can move tasks up an down the list, but I like to keep them in order as I use folders to categorize tasks. Any suggestions on skipping a task or forcing another task to the the next action I work on?One other question, if I assign a due date to a task, is there any way to have this show in the to-do list even if it isn't the next task to be completed? Thanks.Regards-Michael G.
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Hi, Michael G.
I’m going to try to answer your question about how you can show your next actions and also actions that have a due date, together in the to-do list.
I’m assuming that you are continuing to use “complete subtasks in order” to single out your next task in each project. This thread has suggested several other ways to do that, and my suggestion below would have to be revised to match whatever method you pick. This is not as hard as it looks, I am just giving a lot of detail in case newbie wants to try this but does not know his or her way around MLO yet.
1. Go to the to-do tab
2. Click “manage views” near the bottom left. If you don’t see that, click “Filter >>” near the top left.
3. In the “manage to-do views” popup, click “new” to create a new to-do view.
4. Type in a name for your new view.
5. If the “manage” popup is still showing, click “close”
6. You are back to the to-do tab. In the upper left, just below and to the right of “Filter <<” it says “view:” followed by a view name. It should be your new view. If not, click the view name and select your view from the dropdown.
7. Just below “Filter <<” is a word with a down-arrow after it. If you hover the mouse pointer over this word, the tooltip says “Action Filter”. Click it, and select “Available” which will prevent completed tasks from displaying but allow future tasks to display.
8. Further down, under “Advanced” check the box before “Add Advanced”
9. Click the next button, called “Setup,” to get the Advanced Filtering popup.
10. Click “Add Rule”
11. Click the first box and select “Active Action”
12. Click the second box and select “is true” – this will include any task that is ready for execution, which in your projects is the next incomplete task.
13. Click the third box and select “OR”
14. Click the big blue plus right after the “OR” – tooltip says Add Rule.
15. On the next line, click the first box and select “DueDateTime”
16. Click the second box and select “exists” (near the bottom) – this includes, in addition to the active tasks, any uncompleted task that has a due date.
17. Click “OK”
18. You should be seeing your to-do list with active and dated tasks now. The parameters for displaying this list have not been saved yet, click “save settings” in the lower left. Assuming that the report name is still acceptable, click “ok” to go back to the report
Now that you have seen the inner workings of the filter setup, you can explore the other settings and values to create reports that show you exactly what you want to see.
It may be that one of the setups you dream up is a close match for one of the predefined views on the Android. If not, you will only be able to use these views on Windows. You cannot define a view on Windows and copy it to the phone, at this point.
-Dwight
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Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: Skiping next task
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Michael G. <mger...@gerbasio.com> wrote:
When you say "Hide in todo", under the General section I see "Hide the branch in To-Do". I assume this is the same and it does exactly what I wanted.
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