Hi Chris: Many months after you wrote that glorious reply regarding, inheriting sub-items, I am only now noticing it. Sorry about that.
Yes, I do, do a lot of filtering using custom views, but now it's not as relevant as it was back when I initially wrote up that question. Because of the extra work involved with management of dates, I just gave up on that approach altogether...in favor of a this simplified approach: 1) I categorize all tasks into main categories using color coded customer formatting. I run several businesses and each business is a main item. 2) I flag the items I need to focus on each day ACROSS the main items. This way in the flag view, important tasks a projects from each business show up. 3) I put to sleep items for X amount of time important items that are too important to unflag but which I don't want to distract me. I do this using Automatic Formatting. Items that are "sleeping" are grayed out for anywhere from 15 minutes to 8 hours. If there's anyone else who uses "putting items to sleep" let's discuss. On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM, chrisleeuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Many questions on the MLO forum are hard to understand, this is because > the way people think and organize things within MLO can be very different. > > As far as I'm aware it's not possible to set a global option that will > prevent inherited dates in sub tasks. > You can of course uncheck the 'Inherit parent dates' option, or remove the > dates , but only after the sub task has been created. > > That's not to say such an option wouldn't be useful to your way of working. > > However beyond this answer, I think we need to look at what the > alternative options are. > > It looks like you are trying to create some kind of list of high level > parent tasks, without showing all the small detail of the individual > sub-tasks? > > Obviously dates are important to what you are trying to do, as you are > trying to get a view on today's workload. > > From my way of thinking (and this is just an opinion) outside of your > actual view, it would seem logical that sub-tasks would have either the > same date as the parent or an earlier date if I set one. > > I could be wrong, but I think the issue is, that your trying to remove the > inherited sub-task dates to achieve your high level view? > > If I was trying to achieve this kind of thing myself, I wouldn't fight > with the dates, I'd probably enable the flag column in the outline view > (right clicking on column header and select 'flag') > > Then I'd flag the important 'parent' tasks that I want to appear in my > non-hierarchical view (by right clicking the flag column. You can manage > and create flags from the tools menu. > > Then I'd create a custom view, that shows tasks today that are flagged > with my special 'high level' flag. > > This isn't very automatic of course, but your only going to need to flag > the single parent tasks, rather than each child one. > > For me this is the only way it would work, as I have quite a complex > hierarchy of children of children etc and it would be impossible for MLO to > know what level the tasks should be shown at. > > You could use other ways, such as setting contexts only on the parents, or > staring items you want to appear and filtering on that. > > Another option, is if all your parent tasks are in a single folder, or a > few folders, you could create an advanced filtering rule, that states that > in order to be visible in your list the ParentName must be a certain value: > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FGf-HqhxoDw/VlN1o76_ISI/AAAAAAAAGjQ/B-_szN82e-I/s1600/Capture.JPG> > > That way, anything that does not have a specific parent, i.e sub tasks, > would be filtered out of the view. > > This is of course moving towards the advanced side of MLO, so it will > depend on how comfortable you are with the software. > > > > > -- > 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/d747913d-a527-476c-93af-ddfbec93a7a1%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/d747913d-a527-476c-93af-ddfbec93a7a1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Thanks, Eddie ------------------------------- 818 338-6061 Skype: major.bilion <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eddie-kwong/4/54a/620> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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