Reminder: filtering a view in the Android app affects the widget, too

[Charles Blaquière]

Android users: you may be puzzled if you forget that if you apply a filter to a view (e.g. "Active Actions") in the app, that same filter will affect that view in the widget.

This happened to me as I was playing with the new MLO2 for Android. I had recreated the widget and set it to display the Active Actions view. A few days later, I was puzzled to find the widget displaying "No items in view" instead. (There were tons of active actions in my MLO profile.) I discovered that earlier in the week, in the app, I had filtered Active Actions using a string that didn't exist in my profile. That filter had also affected the Active actions view displayed in the widget. Once I removed the filter in the app, both the app and the widget resumed displaying all Active actions.

So keep that in mind: the widget displays the app's current result set from the selected view.

[Lisa Stroyan]

Good to know! I wouldn't have expected that otherwise.

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[Thomas K]

Ahh!! That's how to get context-filtered views in the widget!!

I was just about to post a question on how to do that.

I like to have multiple widgets with views of actions for each context.

A little bit clunky, but better than not at all...

Great catch Charles!

T