Hmmm - just been playing around with this a bit more and I am not so sure that this right. What I found was that whenever I selected a particular view on a particular tab, the columns on that tab would adjust to a layout specific to that view (ie: the column settings are saved with the view). And the same was true across multiple tabs - ie a given view would have the same column layout irrespective of the tab on which it was being displayed. But I am also pretty sure that when you change the column settings on a particular view on a particular tab, the view does not acquire an * to indicate that it has been changed and I am not sure what one needs to do to save that new set of column settings.
Richard On Sunday, 7 December 2014 21:45:56 UTC, Richard C wrote: > > It has never been clear to me where and when column settings are saved. > I think Dwight is right about them now being part of a view but it is less > than clear what they are associated with and what saves.them. And things > get even less clear when one starts opening extra windows using the F3 tab. > > So you are not alone in being confused. I know I have been. > > Not sure whether this helps! > > Richard > > On Saturday, 6 December 2014 13:32:47 UTC, John Smith wrote: >> >> >> Hi >> >> I have a problem with view columns that keep reverting. >> >> Seeming all of my Views (and one of them in particular) - are extremely >> frustrating because the columns are not in the sequence and position that I >> want. But every time I change them back to how I want them (and yes, then >> hit "Save" at the bottom of the Filter panel on the left - either saving to >> the same or a new name), then all it takes is for me to look an any other >> View and then BANG the columns have reverted to where they were. [grrr] >> >> Fwiw, the two columns in question are "Importance" and "Urgency". The >> View in question is mainly a rather complicated one that I constructed from >> scratch, but the problem also affects other Views including the original >> "Outline > All tasks" view that won't let me Save at all. (==> "You are not >> allowed to change predefined views...") >> >> [Aside: Strangely although you aren't allowed to change the predefined >> view you ARE allowed to change the columns aspect of the view whatever the >> software says.] >> >> But the problem is not remotely consistent. It does seem to help somewhat >> if you have two copies of the exactly same View next to each other on the >> left hand column. But not for very long... And it may revert at any point. >> Certainly as soon as you delete the spare one, the other one's columns >> always seem to go wrong again! >> >> This definitely feels like a bug to me. (Ouch! Ironically as soon as I >> wrote the word bug - if confirmed by act of God - I get a message to my >> screen that MLO has actually crashed!) >> >> Any suggestions or best practices as to how to avoid the columns going >> wrong? >> >> e.g. Should I delete all copies of my Views and rebuild them from scratch? >> e.g. Should I export all my data and import into a new blank MLO file? (V >> painful obviously as I would lose a lot of settings presumably..) >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/150a01bd-189b-4e9f-b746-c5cb3c5d4af7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
