In MLO Android (v2) is there any way to apply a context to multiple tasks at once?

[J Smith]

Hello

In MLO Android (v2.0.17 on Galaxy Note 3) is there any way to apply a context to multiple tasks at once?

J

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, you need Multiselect for what you are trying to do. At this point I have not seen any announcement of any upcoming release of Multiselect on Android.
-Dwight

[J Smith]

Personally I find this inability to multi-select to be extremely disappointing. 

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[John Cesta]

 

 

is it possible to multi select in windows?

 

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 6:15:02 PM UTC-5, J Smith wrote:

[J Smith]

Yes - absolutely there is!

It work exactly how you'd expect it to and it's one of the most powerful features of MLO on Windows.
i.e.
A) Click on a task (==> the line goes pale blue)

B) Then shift-click or control-click ==> to select whatever tasks choose
C) You can then apply whatever fields you change to all the Tasks that were selected at the time.

Brilliant!   :)

J

[Nathan G]

Yes, you can do this in the Windows version. 

HOWEVER, THERE IS THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM:

If you multi-select tasks and use the Properties pane to assign contexts, any differences between the two tasks' existing contexts will be lost.

EXPLANATION:

Suppose I have two tasks, Task_A and Task_B.

I want to add context @Urgent to both of them.

Task_A already has a context assigned, @Home. 

Task_B has no contexts assigned yet.

If I multi-select Task_A and Task_B, and try to assign them the @Urgent context in the Properties pane, both Task_A and Task_B will get both the @Urgent context, BUT...  Task_B is forced to pick up the @Home context.  Or, if you un-select @Home, it will disappear from Task_A, too. 

This is decidedly un-elegant.  Most professional-grade programs would have a grey check-mark (or something) to indicate that *some* of the tasks have the context, but not all of them do. 

A work-around is to assign a hotkey to the context @Urgent, but this is cumbersome and can be impractical.

There are many cases where one might want to select 10 tasks and assign them all a certain context, but to maintain other existing differences in the contexts.

To be honest, this has annoyed me for years.  How do I submit a modification request to the programmers?

I also really wish that there was an option to not have children inherit their parent's contexts!!