Sorting changes on Zoom

[Laurence Glazier]

I have come back to MLO after a gap of some weeks. I'm using it for checklists, where I have found it to shine. However, on my Windows desktop, on zooming into one of my checklists (they are in an outline, each list having its own branch), I find that the order of steps changes. Cancelling the zoom reverts the sequence to what it was. Has anyone an idea of what is going on here? As I listed items in the sequence I planned to do them, I cannot use MLO for this purpose on Windows (It works perfectly on my Android phone).

Thanks

Laurence

[imajeff]

Off the top of my head, each parent task or folder has an option to "Complete subtasks in order"

Maybe that's what you need in every place that you are going to add more tasks inside of?

[Laurence Glazier]

Thanks, that's right, in the Active Actions view, but I was just using the Outline view, to keep things simple!

However I like that feature, and also dependent tasks,

[Laurence Glazier]

To clarify the issue

In outline view

Before zooming:

After zooming on Reset branch:

After zooming out again it returns to the sequence I want.

[Jeff Smith]

I don't zoom often but when I do... I didn't see the same problem

Maybe it's a problem I had where I clicked a heading wondering what it would do, but it sorted all tasks in the outline in alphabetical order. It probably was only clicked in your zoomed view, and if you will notice it has those sorted alphabetically but then also reversed order (a typical action if you click the same header once to sort it, and again to reverse that).

I don't remember the thread but it was here that someone finally helped me undo and get back to my manually sorted order. It seems overly complicated so I can't remember anything except it had to do with views but since outline is a special view you can't just save it and undo changes, so there was something else........

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[Daniel Sekera]

I cannot replicate this issue.  All my lists stay the same order when I zoom, whether or not I am using the complete subtasks in order feature.  Interesting..........  This is also a windows desktop currently running win10pro version 21h2 19044.2006 build

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[imajeff]

I replicated the issue, as I mentioned the zoom view is apparently being sorted, and saves it's sort setting. Notice to leave the zoom you have that yellow bar "Click to zoom-out"... but if you barely miss that and hit right below it, "*All tasks > >" then it will instantly sort the task names in alphabetical order. His image shows it is reverse-alphabetical order, which happens if I make that same mistake a second time.

To restore it I was either able to click "Discard changes" which would be a button at bottom of the filter stuff on the left, or I can click the "Sort" button above there and change where it says "Caption" to "(none)"

[Laurence Glazier]

Thanks imajeff for solving it, I have no idea how the zoom view came to be sorted but now I understand how to fix it, much appreciated!! I can happily use MLO again on all platforms.