Cancelled Projects

[Rebecca Walbecq]

Just a question regarding project status..... I would like to be able to mark a project as "Cancelled". I see cancelled and suspended as two different options. Cancelled means that there are no future plans to work on the project. However, I don't necessarily want to delete the project. Suspended means the project is on hold until a future decision can be made. Is there a way to add a project status?

Thank you in advance

Rebecca

[Michael Emerald, CFA]

Chiming in  I have suggested having customizable project group names because if you try to devise a complete list of preset names as was done with Pocket Informant software it becomes confusing. For example what is the difference between suspended canceled and on hold?  Worse the user may one day call a project on hold and the next day call another project waiting and another day call a project suspended then wonder what all these definitions mean. Much better I feel is to have customizable group names.

 

Michael Emerald, CFA

Performance Business Design

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[Luc Poitras]

For my part, I also have a workSpace titled <Calendared projects>. For me, these projects are not suspended or on hold, or Not Started, but are in the calendar for a futur date.

And what I did is put in advanced filter the following rules :

<Is Project>;

<Project status In Progress>;

<Start date after today>.

 

Also, in General Filter, I have put <Show Hierarchy :Yes>. This way, concerning a futur InProgress project, I am able to add information directly from that WorkSpace.

 

So, the main reason I did this is to differenciate the <Suspended> projects from the <already blocked in futur calendar date> projects.

 

Luc

 

 

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[Luc Poitras]

…..But I also agree that having customizable project group names would make it much easier.

The other thing I find confusing is that I seem to have too many projects in <Not Started> that should go instead in <Someday Maybe>.

 

And I realize that just the struggle I have right now of trying to put a name on the project status explains why I would also recommend <customizable project group names>.

 

Luc

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Chiming in  I have suggested having customizable project group names because if you try to devise a complete list of preset names as was done with Pocket Informant software it becomes confusing. For example what is the difference between suspended canceled and on hold?  Worse the user may one day call a project on hold and the next day call another project waiting and another day call a project suspended then wonder what all these definitions mean. Much better I feel is to have customizable group names.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/002a01cf12e4%24f490d690%24ddb283b0%24%40yahoo.com.

[Stéph]

Hello Rebecca,

I had the same problem. My work-around for marking projects as cancelled is to set up a context, which I call "superseded". I then set up an icon (a little x) in position 0, to show in the outline that a project or task has been cancelled,

Would that help?

Stéphane

[Elizabeth Lindsay]

I, too, use the context of "!Canceled" (this sorts to the top of my context list).  I use it for anything that I will not be completing, but do not wish to delete.  It can be a project or a single action.  Then, anything that is both completed and has this context I know it wasn't "finished" but rather "stopped".  I actually find it more helpful, since the act of checking off an action allows depended actions to proceed.