Next actions by project sort order

[Laurence Glazier]

I find that this view is not sorted by computed score, though this is selected in the filters. The actions shown are the first active ones in the order of the hierarchy. If the filter is changed from Next actions to Active actions, sorting works correctly. Is there something I am not seeing here? Any advice would be welcome, as it would be nice to pick out an important task from several projects without having to go through each one manually and star them.

Laurence

[Christoph Zwerschke]

"Next action" is defined as "first active action" in MLO.

The order used to determine which is considered "first" seems to be just
the default order in the hiearchy and not dependent on the sort order of
the view.

You can create a custom "Active Actions by Project" view. This will show
all active actions per project. I don't think it's possible to show just
the first active action in that sort order.

-- Christoph

[Laurence Glazier]

Thanks for clarifying.

[Dwight]

I have not tried it but I am guessing that you could use a 'Next
Actions" action filter to look through all of the projects in your
profile and pick out, for each project, the next task that should be
worked on, and then you could sort that view by computed-score to show
which of those actions is most deserving of being worked on right now.
This assumes that you are looking at a non-hierarchical to-do list. Once
you introduce the concept of sorting to a hierarchical view I get lost.

-Dwight

[Laurence Glazier]

Thanks Dwight.

Re sorting of hierarchical lists, I can understand that one might want to look at projects in sequence with the more critical ones first (i.e sort on calculated-score of the project), and then look for a next action for each one (based on calculated-score of active items within the project). But that can't be done in MLO, it seems the secondary sorting works after the Next Items are picked out, so there is nothing left to be sorted at that level. So we need to use work-arounds.

Laurence

[Laurence Glazier]

Also the Time Required total seems to be shown with the project information only in the Windows version. I haven't found it yet in the Android version, to enable planning while away from base.