Context inheritance

[Chad McFall]

I see references to changing contexts when dragging tasks between parents but I don't see any tasks actually inheriting context from their parents.  Do you need to enable it somewhere?

Android Galaxy Z Fold 3, Pro license

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Check if the option "Append missing contexts" is enabled at Settings> General Settings > If task moved to a new parent.

[Chad McFall]

I believe context inheritance is intended to work one way but there are a few vectors that were missed:

Adding tasks to a folder through a widget does not cause a task to inherit contexts attached to the destination folder.

Changing contexts attached to a folder does not update child tasks to that folder unless they are moved out of the folder and back in.

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

> Changing contexts attached to a folder does not update child tasks to that folder unless they are moved out of the folder and back in.

Yes, only new subtasks can inherit contexts of a parent task.

If you want to change contexts for all or some tasks in the branch, try Multiselect. But in that case all old context(s) will be overwritten by the new one.

> Adding tasks to a folder through a widget does not cause a task to inherit contexts attached to the destination folder.

I couldn't reproduce it. If you click "+" and select a destination folder in "New Task In", the task will inherit the folder's context.

[Richard Collings]

I haven’t read the whole thread so I am not sure whether this solves your  problem but if you right click on the folder and select Advanced,  you get two options

 

Add contexts to all subtasks

Replace contexts for all subtasks.

 

Does this solve your problem?

 

Richard

 

 

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[Chad McFall]

Alyona, this is on Android.  I can reproduce the new task in problem.  I can record a video if necessary.

Richard, on Android there doesn't appear to be a "replace contexts for all subtasks" when holding down on an item - equivalent to a right-click.   

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Yes, please record a video so that I can reproduce it by your steps. 

[Chad McFall]

Attached is a video showing that when a task is created in a folder from a widget on Android it does not inherit the context of the folder.

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Thank you for the video, but it does not show that the parent task has a context assigned.  If there is a bug, please re-record the video where we can see the context of the parent folder. 

I've attached a video showing how it should behave: