How to setup advanced view with completed items in project

[Baddr el Din]

Hello,

I have configured a view which shows me all my completed tasks in the outline to easily move them to my DONE-archive (I know there is an autoarchive function, but that is not my point here).

Let me explain my need for a more detailed filtering in this view. I am defining projects with multiple steps which have to be completed in order. I want these items to stay together till all subtasks of the project parent are completed. This is to know what I have done and achieved in the project progress.

So here is my request for assistance: How can I exclude completed items that are child of a project item and has uncompleted siblings from my view that is showing completed items?

By the way I am using MLO Desktop Professional 4.3.2.

Regards
B

[Dwight]

Hi, I am going to look into how to do what you are asking,  but it will take a while because there are a lot of tasks ahead of this one. I just wanted to check one thing.  I know that you are aware of auto - archive.  But are you also aware that there's a user setting "do not archive subtasks of open projects or recurring tasks" to address the specific issue that you are facing?
-Dwight
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[Baddr el Din]

Hi Dwight,

thanks for your hint. I was aware of the option "do not archive subtasks of open projects or recurring tasks" before, and this option does exclude the completed items from archiving that I want to exclude from my view.

Therefore I still ask the MLO community for support to realize such a view I described in my initial post.
-B

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, B. Sorry to have taken a month to get back to you and I hope that you are still interested in this.

I took your request as "show completed task excluding any  task that is a part of a project which has uncompleted subtasks"

I converted that  request to 

"show completed tasks that are not part of a project, also show any project that has no uncompleted subtasks together with all the subtasks of each project."

I built this as a hierarchical view, with parents hidden and children displayed. 

The advanced filter says "include every project that has no uncompleted subtasks and include every task that.s not in a project and that's complete"" or "(((IsProject)AND(not(HasIncompleteSubtasks))OR((Projectname is empty)AND(Complete)))"

The hierarchical view config's child filter says "only show the child hierarchy if the parent is a project" or "(projectname is not empty)"

so what's happening is that projects with uncompleted subtasks are hidden, then projects that don't have any uncompleted subtasks are shown together with all of their subtasks. In addition, any task that is completed and that's not part of a project gets shown.

concerns:

the way that I test whether or not a task is a part of a project is "project name is empty" so if you ever create a project whose name is empty the view will not work.

the projects are shown as a hierarchy. If you wanted a flat view, I don't know how to do it, sorry.

I tried to attach my exported spec for the view as custom.mfv - try importing it. Tell me what happens.

-Dwight