Should the Active (green) tasks consider start date time?

[Andrey Tkachuk (MLO)]

Hi,

In MLO v3.0.0 the task is green if it is active (i.e. no completed
parents, no open subtasks etc). However it is green even if it is
scheduled for future.

This is because the filed ActiveAction in the filter does not consider
the start date of the task. So you can use this filter to select all
Active Actions even scheduled for future and then add additional
filter to the view if needed. The color coding used this field to
define Active Action and painted all future active tasks with green.

In MLO v3.0.1 I decided not to paint an active task green if it is
scheduled for future. So all scheduled to future tasks will not be
considered active and will not be green. The ActiveAction field in
filter will still return even scheduled for future active tasks.

This will be implemented in next release.

Thoughts?

Andrey.

[pottster]

What you propose is logical.

I've found that the green colour code is valuable when reviewing the
Outline for progress. Not so much for which tasks are green but for
which are NOT green. If the task is not green it means it's inactive
and something is holding it up. That could be due to all sorts of
reasons which might need challenging/correction at e.g. dependencies
on other tasks, subtasks in order, parent task completed, wrongly
hidden in to do view etc

Having future dates not green would provide a visual cue to challenge
this as well - for instance, could the task be done sooner?

Regards,
Ken

On Jun 25, 10:58 am, "Andrey Tkachuk (MLO)"