Subtasks Being Removed After Recurring Project Marked Complete

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AbeG

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Jan 4, 2014, 2:15:41 AM1/4/14
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I'm not sure if I have the following scenario implemented properly:
25 times a month, I need to perform a task.  I can perform the task on any days and however many times on a given day as long as I complete it 25 times each month.

Here is how I have it implemented:
I have a project set up to recur on the 1st of each month.  The project has 25 identical tasks.

Problem:
Each time I mark the project as complete, all of its subtasks are deleted.  There are some months when I do not complete this task a total of 25 times and I would like to be able to reference this information.

Dwight Arthur

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Jan 8, 2014, 1:08:18 PM1/8/14
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Hi, Abe. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that you want to be able to look at the completed project from xx months ago and see how many of the subtasks were completed. Is that right?

When a project recurrs, its completed subtasks are either left in completed status or reset to uncompleted, depending on the selections made in the advanced options in the task recurrence window. You can force the repeating parent to leave behind a trail of completed copies by clearing the checkmark for "do not create a completed copy of this task on recurring" but that's only for the parent, not the subtasks.

If I wanted to do what you are doing, instead of a repeating project I would have a folder with 25 repeating subtasks, each of which would have the "do not create . . ." checkbox cleared. At any time the folder will contain all remaining subtasks for the current month and all completed subtasks for this and all previous months. The folder could quickly get pretty full so I would also recommend an aggressive aschedule of archiving.
-Dwight

AbeG

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Jan 24, 2014, 5:47:47 PM1/24/14
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I'm not sure if this would be ideal for my situation because I would like to be able to see how I did on a given month.  It looks like I will have to do this manually, at least for the time being.
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