(minor) issue filtering daily recurring tasks

[Ian F]

I have a view that has a filter with a rule Recurrence=Daily. If a task is set to recur daily and has the "Every Weekday" radio button selected, the filter incorrectly excludes that task.

There are several workarounds such as using contexts or flags, of course, but I'd rather not have to do an additional step of setting another task field when the existing data should be enough. It's fine for a few tasks, but it would get increasingly annoying.

There's no option that would allow me to specify (Recurrence=Daily OR Recurrence=EveryWeekday). Additionally, many of the operators available for filter rules don't make sense (I tried Recurrence<Weekly but it didn't work), however, I guess it would be a big job to customise the operators for all fields and all their possible values.

I would call this an omission resulting in unexpected behaviour rather than a bug, however, it would be nice for these kinds of low priority things to be addressed eventually.

If it's ok, I'll continue to post bugs / issues here as I find them. I've posted several feature requests at the UserVoice site too and hopefully the activity there will pick up eventually (nothing in the last few months).

http://mlo.uservoice.com/users/67156478-ian

I really appreciate all the work done so far.

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Ian. Thanks for this stimulating question. I wasn’t even aware that Every Weekday was an available recurrence option, but I looked and there it is.

 

I have no suggestions for how you can create a report that includes tasks with daily or  weekday recurrence while excluding weekly recurrence, but I can explain what’s happening. I did some testing and it turns out that MLO treats Weekday recurrence as a type of weekly recurrence. This makes sense in a way – weekday recurrence is actually identical to weekly occurrence which happens every Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr. If you imagine the weekday occurrence, which is currently listed under daily, being moved so that it’s listed under weekly, all of the filters would make sense.

-          A task with weekday recurrence passes a filter for Recurrence = Weekly and fails a filter for recurrence = daily

-          A task with recurrence every  7 days passes a filter for daily and fails a filter for weekly

-          A filter for recurrence < weekly will pass tasks with hourly and daily recurrence and fail tasks with weekly and monthly recurrence, noting that weekday recurrence is considered weekly and therefore fails

I cannot see any way to make a filter that would pass daily and weekday tasks and fail weekly tasks. If you don’t care about weekly tasks you could easily make a filter that passes daily or weekly and it would probably provide what you need. But if it’s important to exclude weekly tasks then I don’t know how to do it.

-Dwight

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[Ian F]

Hi Dwight.

I confirm that the filter rule Recurrence <= Weekly includes my every day and every weekday tasks. It hadn't occurred to me to consider every weekday as a weekly recurrence. Including daily tasks with every weekday tasks in the same view isn't a problem for me.

I wasn't expecting a reply so soon, if at all, so thanks! I'm also going to try promoting my feature requests on this forum, so please feel free to check them out (or ignore them). Some of those listed are ideas of others that I've just commented on.

http://mlo.uservoice.com/users/67156478-ian

Ian