How To Duplicate Tasks

[Renman2735]

Dear guys,

I've been looking through some posts for this answer but it seems like most people have the opposite issue, wanting to not have duplicates!

For me, I'd like to create a task that falls into two categories.

For example, under category A (relationships), I want learn to play song XYZ for my mum's birthday.

However, under category B (Learn the Piano), I want to learn to play song XYZ too.

In other words by completing song XYZ, it serves two categories for me.

How can I create the same task under both these two categories, such that clicking the completed box under A does the same under category B? (or vice versa)

Thanks in advance!

RM

[Stéph]

Hello RM,

Each task you enter is a single, separate task. When you enter two tasks in two separate areas of the outline, as subtasks of two separate projects, they are separate tasks and you can't link them so that completing one automatically completes the other. Therefore, in your example, you'll need to find some way of entering "learn song XYZ" in one place and making it relevant to both projects (play song for mum's birthday and learn the piano) or both contexts (relationships and piano playing skill).

You could use a single task and tag it with the Contexts of "relationships" and "piano-skill".

It seems to me, though, that playing the piano for the birthday is dependent on learning the piano to a high enough level and learning the song. I'd set up a project (a branch in your outline) for learning the piano to that level and then a separate project for continued learning beyond that goal:

Project A - learn song XYZ

Step 1 - buy a piano

Step 2 - scales

Step 3 - learn song XYZ

Project B - play song XYZ at birthday (you could consider using dependencies and making the start of this project dependent on project A step 3 - More important to get the start and due dates right for each step, though)

Step 1 - Arrange birthday party

Step 2 - bring song book

Step 3 - Play song XYZ

Project C - continued piano to then next level

Step 1 - more scales and arpeggios

Step 2 - more songs

Step 3 - Play Bach at the Royal Albert Hall 

Those are my thoughts. Hope that helps.

Happy Christmas.

Stéphane 

[robisme (Olivier R)]

This is a "ghost copy" feature I-ve been requesting for years in the beta forum, and still no plan for it.

I think this could be a very powerfull feature, and I really hope dev will consider it.

Olivier

[Matthieu B]

Absolutely! This is a must. Real life is not so one-dimensional. A single task can sometimes serve two or more projects at the same time, with their relative importance scores. When is this going to be a feature in MLO?