[REQUEST] CONTEXTS > SHOW IN > New setting - Show in props line

[Radek Pilich]

Consider adding new setting to the context items - Show in props line.

Right now, ALL assigned context appear in the props line, which makes the feature of showing contexts in the props line pretty much useless if using more than 2-3 contexts for a single task.

I use multiple context "sub-groups", but most of them are used to separate tasks into views, turning a particular view into particular context(s) configuration. 

However there are some contexts, that are not used for filtering and that I would like to see in the props line.

[Dwight Arthur]

If you used tags instead of contexts for the filtering would the problem go away?

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[Radek Pilich]

The following is besides the original point of the request.

I don't like how tags are implemented.

They are fine for putting a single tag on a task.

But the way it creates "combined" tag when putting more than one tag on a task renders it unusable for me.

I can't even imagine what your suggestion would mean in my system.

[Dwight Arthur]

I'm not clear on what the issue is, so let me be a little more specific about what I am proposing.

You have some contexts that are not used for filtering and that you would like to see in the task list. Let's suppose that some examples are @call, @email, @spreadsheet, @camera

You have some other contexts that are used for filtering. Some tasks have multiples of these contexts.

Lets suppose that these filterable contexts include colour names like #red #purple #blue
size like *small, *medium, *large
direction like ^North, ^Northeast, ^East

Suppose that you have a large blue Northern spreadsheet. You would define the context as @Spreadsheet and the text tag as the text string "*large, #blue, ^North".

Now, if you want to see all the blue items and no items that are not blue you would add the following filter to your view:
AND (TEXTTAG Contains 'blue')
and you should get the blue items. The fact that there are other things in the text tag do not seem troubling to me, why do you consider this to be unusable?

I can think of two issues

1. You have mentioned elsewhere that you are talking about ad-hoc and not saved views. I am guessing that you mean that you do not want to use advanced settings. (I often use advanced settings creating an ad hoc view, I just do not save the filter.) Anyhow, you can type the word blue into the "text" quickfilter box in the left sidebar and select "texttag" in the following dropdown to get the same effect. You may need to uncheck other items in the dropdown.

2. You cannot group or sort tasks according to a substring from the texttag, only by the entire texttag string. If you must have  sorting or grouping by an attribute that cannot appear on the props line then I have no solution for you.

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[Radek Pilich]

The problem is simple:

- lets say I have 30 contexts

- lets say typical task has more than 5 contexts

In this scenario, showing contexts in the props line is pretty useless, because it's too much information.

However If I could define, what contexts show up in the props line, only 1 or 2 out of 5+ contexts of a given task would show up in the props line.

That would make the props line useful.

Right now, as too many contexts are shown in the props line, I have to turn off the display of contexts in the props line.

I hope it's clearer now.