Is there any way to keep an empty folder visible in an All Active Tasks view?

[John Smith]

I have discovered something rather irritating. In my All Active Tasks outline view, if I have a folder that has no uncompleted tasks in it, the folder disappears from view 

Nowadays I more or less live in this "All Active Tasks outline view" and I tend to add stuff directly into it. And if I want to add stuff into a particular folder that is impossible if the folder has disappeared.

One option is to go to my All Tasks view, however that is riddled with my Lists of stuff that I dont want to see on a day-to-day basis and that stuff rather gets in the way.

A work around is to create a Task which I never tick as complete, and to use it much like a folder. It's visually annoying to see something that looks like a Task but which I can not complete.

So is there any way to get a Folder to appear on the "All Active Tasks outline view" even when it does not contain any uncompleted tasks?

Thanks

J

[Dwight]

Do I correctly understand that you want some folders (the ones that customarily get to hold your active tasks) to be retained in the view while others (that hold lists and whatnot) to be excluded? How would MLO discriminate between the two, would there ba a flag? A trick prefix to the task name? Maybe a branch in your outline for tasky folders and a different branch for the non-tasky ones? Or maybe some other rule?
-Dwight
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[John Smith]

OK good questions.

One option would be to set some sort of flag (literally a MLO Flag?) and have that make the folder appear. That way only the folders that I actually want to appear would be visible in my Active Tasks view.

However folders are not something I use in multiple places and I think I could live with ALL folders staying visible.

[John Smith]

P.S. I was forgetting - there is also the "Hide the branch in To-Do" field.

So that's it then - I want to show folders essentially everywhere. Everywhere except where a folder is in the Active Tasks views and that folder has the "Hide the branch in To-Do" field ticked.

J

[Dwight]

So, I would suggest that you create a view that filters for folders that are not hidden.  The view should be hierarchical with children shown but not parents, and the children filtered to be active tasks with start date time missing or start date time less that or equal to now.

If you need me to make a picture of this, let me know.

The basic idea is that you do not want tasks and their folders, you want  folders and their tasks.  This prevents the folder from dissapearing when all of its tasks as completed. The business with the start date is to adjist for the difference between the Active setting for action filters versus the Active setting for Advanced filter. Again, if you need further explanation let me know.

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