How to Display All Projects in One Tab, without duplicates

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bird...@gmail.com

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Oct 4, 2016, 11:47:29 AM10/4/16
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Hi:

I have created view for Projects items only, using the Advanced Filtering. I am using the non-hierarchical view.

But...I get all the projects displaying several times...all duplicates. I have confirmed that there are no actual duplicates. This is the way that MLO is displaying them. 

Does anyone now of a way top prevent this from happening?

Thanks,
Eddie

Dwight Arthur

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Oct 4, 2016, 12:20:46 PM10/4/16
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1. Have you tried making it a hierarchical view? I would expect that to work better for projects than a non-hierarchical view would.

2. Could you post what your advanced filter specifies?

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Hi Dwight, 

the hierarchical view is even more of a a mess.

Advance filter is just "isProject"

I think the problem is that I have the Projects in different location, as opposed to all being in one place, i.e. all under the same top item. But, usually, one of the things that MLO is great at is allowing me to have items scattered all over the place, while still being able to put through all in one place using views and filtering. It works for everything I do, except projects. 

Eddie

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1. Have you tried making it a hierarchical view? I would expect that to work better for projects than a non-hierarchical view would.

2. Could you post what your advanced filter specifies?

On October 4, 2016 11:47:56 AM "bird...@gmail.com" <bird...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi:

I have created view for Projects items only, using the Advanced Filtering. I am using the non-hierarchical view.

But...I get all the projects displaying several times...all duplicates. I have confirmed that there are no actual duplicates. This is the way that MLO is displaying them. 

Does anyone now of a way top prevent this from happening?

Thanks,
Eddie

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Oct 4, 2016, 5:37:09 PM10/4/16
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Hello Eddie,

I have a view, with the single advanced filter "IsProject". I have set up a two levels of grouping on my view: 1) group by Top Level Folder (as I have my tasks under four folders to represent four separate quadrants of my life - personal, home, work, community) and 2) group by Project Status.  In this view, I get no duplication of my projects. Each project is displayed under one quadrant of my life and grouped depending on whether it's In Progress, Completed, etc.

If you're getting duplicates, the only thing I can think is that you'll have grouped under some non-unique criteria - eg if you've grouped by context, but you've assigned more than one context to a project.

Does that help at all?

Stéphane

On Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:01:39 UTC+1, Majorbillion wrote:
Hi Dwight, 

the hierarchical view is even more of a a mess.

Advance filter is just "isProject"

I think the problem is that I have the Projects in different location, as opposed to all being in one place, i.e. all under the same top item. But, usually, one of the things that MLO is great at is allowing me to have items scattered all over the place, while still being able to put through all in one place using views and filtering. It works for everything I do, except projects. 

Eddie
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Dwight Arthur <m...@dwightarthur.us> wrote:

1. Have you tried making it a hierarchical view? I would expect that to work better for projects than a non-hierarchical view would.

2. Could you post what your advanced filter specifies?

On October 4, 2016 11:47:56 AM "bird...@gmail.com" <bird...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi:

I have created view for Projects items only, using the Advanced Filtering. I am using the non-hierarchical view.

But...I get all the projects displaying several times...all duplicates. I have confirmed that there are no actual duplicates. This is the way that MLO is displaying them. 

Does anyone now of a way top prevent this from happening?

Thanks,
Eddie

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Could you send a picture of the hierarchical view being a mess, and describe what you don't like about it? I still suspect that hierarchical is the cure, but perhaps you will have to use the hierarchy configuration button to make it look right.

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Oct 4, 2016, 6:08:45 PM10/4/16
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Hi Steph and Dwight:

Both of your emails inspired me to take a closer look. And, of course...my bad. 

I turned out that I done two things that caused duplicates to be spawned:
  1. I kept a template of what I think a great daily routine for me to follow. The template was there in case, I needed to recreate a format in case I mistakenly deleted it. Of course, that's why MLO generates backup files. So I deleted that. 
  2. Actually, I had backups.
Since deleting all of the above, everything makes sense again. 

Thanks for being the catalysts for me finding what should have been obvious. 

Eddie



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Oct 4, 2016, 6:43:02 PM10/4/16
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Hey, glad it worked out for you. Just one thing,  keeping a template for a clever or finely tuned routine is a great thing. You shouldn't have to delete them. Make a top level folder called "templates" and drag them all into the folder. Mark the folder "hidden" or "hide in to-do" and the will never show up in your to-do lists.

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Oct 4, 2016, 7:47:47 PM10/4/16
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​Thanks...I just took a lot at the "hidden" setting and, yes, that would worked for sure! 

Have a nice evening!​

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