Include Parent Item Only If it's a Project

[Amir Rachum]

What I want is to have a view with a certain filter (doesn't matter) and include the parent item only if it's a project.

When creating a filter for a custom view, there is a "Show Hierarchy" option. In the "Config" dialog, I can choose "Include Parent Item" and configure a filter for the parent items. 

However, if I set the filter to "IsProject = true", then I only get items that are in a project. That is, items that are included in my main filter are not shown if they are not children of a project.

What I want is to get all items in my filter, but show the parent only if it's a project. Is that possible?

[Dwight]

I can come close but not perfect. Try this: set the main filter to whatever you have in mind <or> (is project with subtasks). Configure hierarchy to show children but not parents, and configure the child filter to your original filter criterion.

Result, just what I think you want, with one exception: if a project that has subtasks all of which fail the original filter then the project should be excluded but it is in fact included.
Example, I have a profile with two contexts, @set and @clear. I want to see all of the @set tasks and any parent that is a project.

Full profile


Main Filter


Hierarchy filter


Children Filter


Result

Result looks good to me except that "project with clear child" and "project with clear grandchild" should not be displayed.

[funjul...@gmail.com]

It seems that none of this should be necessary if parent and child filtering worked correctly.

In another thread, you wrote a clear explanation of how they should work:

> Hierarchical views are created in two steps (well, more really but only two that matter to this discussion) First, the main and advanced filters are applied to create a flat list of items that pass the filter at that level. The second step makes it hierarchical: the children and/or parents (per your request) are attached to each of the items that passed step one. The children and/or parents are filtered based *not* on the main and advanced filters but on the child filter and/or parent filter (click the “config” button after the Show Hierarchy filter). Then the resulting trees are merged and your view is ready.

https://groups.google.com/g/mylifeorganized/c/daBDITQn-Ek/m/d47Dc_F7iAkJ

But as this user points out, parent and child filters sometimes exclude tasks that pass the main filters, which should never happen.