Inherited Date

[Tammy Metayer]

How is the inherited Date function used?

[Elizabeth Lindsay]

Hi Tammy,

When an item inherits the date of the item above, it sets the start and due dates to the same as the parent item.  As other discussions have shown, this can be helpful or irritating - it depends on what you are trying to achieve.  I personally appreciate the inheritance, as it helps me notice the date range and not set a start earlier than the parent or a due after the parent (unless that's what I really want to do).

Does that help?

[bird...@gmail.com]

Hi Tammy:

The other side of the coin is for users, like myself, who use the non-hierarchical view which allows you to sort automatically by importance, urgency, and effort.

The non-hierarchical view, let's say to filter out everything except for items with due date "today." We then run into situation in which sub items which inherit parent due dates of today show up in this view. In those cases sub items inheriting the parents is undesirable.

In these kinds of situations, I wind up having to manually clear the dates from those subitems.

There is a checkbox under properties which is intended to prevent inheritance from parents dates, but I find that it usually does not work.

A few months ago, when I brought this issue up, I thought I was in a very small subset of users who used MLO in this way. But others have chimed in on this issue, which was sort of a surprise.

Anyway, the developers had responded to me, saying that this issue will be dealt with incoming updates.

Eddie

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[Jim Peet]

Hi Eddie.  I have the same issue, I would lke for a new task by default to assume that there will not be inheritance of date, or so I can select which state I want as the default.  I see it has been 2 years since this chain, and 5.0 has come out without addressing it.  Any word from MLO on if and when they are planning to address this?