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3 Nov 2003
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While using/testing the 6.6 Dev Release, I had something strange happen: all of the due dates, start dates, statuses, categories, etc. blanked (disappeared) (for no reason) for all the sibling sub-tasks to the one that was hilighted. This was a bunch of tasks (over 300) in a parent task called "Main Tasks". After saving the TDL file and looking at it in wordpad, all of that stuff WAS really gone from the tasks. The actual choices for category, status, etc. WERE still in the TDL file (at the bottom) I'm not sure what I was doing at the time, but I restored a backup and it happened again (not sure what I did to cause it again - seemed to actually happen by itself)! I had to go back to the latest official version (6.5.8), because this was my actual tasklist that I use at work. I just wanted to let you know that this happened - might be another bug that crept into THIS version, because it never happened before (on other versions)
-Steve-
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Do you have the preference for subtasks inheriting their parent's attributes enabled?
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Yes I DO use inheritance on some things. When I get to work later, I will check to see if inheritance is set on the same things that got cleared, and let you know
-Steve-
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these were missing from the TDL file
STATUS
NUMCATEGORY
CATEGORY
DUEDATE
DUEDATESTRING
I have inheritance turned on for:
Status
Category
Due Date
Flag
Tags
And the checkbox for "Continue to update subtasks as parent changes" is CHECKED. However, the Due Date, Status & Category for the tasks disappeared all at the same time AND the cursor was not on the the parent task when it happened so I don't believe it is something I did by accident (twice) - but I can't be 100% sure. Let me know if you find anything. Thanks! -Steve-
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Hi dan
nearly all strings from the predefined filters (like "E) Tasks due by tomorrow") are "fallen back" to English, although they were translated. Are they modified (a little bit)?
Pierre
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Pierre de la Verre wrote: Are they modified (a little bit)? I don't think so (I try to be careful not to change strings unnecessarily).
More likely it's a consequence of the code changing in order to integrate custom saved searches. Should be easy to fix.
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Here is an example - first string is the new one, the second is the old one.
"Tasks Due by the end of This Month" "" "text"
"H)\tTasks Due by the end of This Month" "H)\tAufgaben fällig bis Ende dieses Monats" "combobox.1105"
Pierre
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You are right. I detached the shortcut letter from the filter description to give greater flexibility.
My bad.
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The only situation where German has less letters then English - and it looks a little bit strange ..
Pierre
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Very strange. It looks like there is a stray tab character caught in there...
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I like this program very much, but very often, when I mark a subtask ask being complete, all the tasks above it disappear from the screen! Then I have to do a collapse-all and expand-all to get everything back on the screen. Another way to get everything back on the screen is to use the up arrow. Is there any way to not have that stuff disappear? Thanks!
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There is a "Preference - Tasks - Attribute Calculations - Treat tasks whose subtasks are completed as also being completed".
Is it activated or not?
Pierre
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Thanks for the quick response - that setting is NOT active (unchecked)
-Steve-
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Do you have a filter active?
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.dan.g. wrote: Do you have a filter active? An active filter might explain that the "tasks above it disappear from the screen" and that they reappear when Member 9172785 uses the arrow up key.
There where several posts in the last months that dealt with little problems with the view and the necessity of the use of the arrow key to solve that. I can't recall them all but I think this little problem started with the filter option w) and showed up in different situations.
Jochen
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It probably does not happen when there is no filter, but I usually use at least one filter due to having a large number of tasks. It is happening right now when I show "Tasks Due by Today" and have 5 things checked under the Status filter, but that is not the only filter combination where this happens. While testing, I just noticed that UNDO (Ctrl+Z) can also make this same thing happen, and upon further examination, it's not only the tasks above the one I'm checking off that disappear, but some below too! I will try to examine what is happening more carefully as I use ToDoList to see if I can identify any more clues or patterns when this happens. One more thing (if it matters) is that I have some top-level tasks like "Daily Tasks", "Weekly Tasks", etc. that contain my actual tasks, so all of the tasks that I check off are actually sub-tasks of these
-Steve-
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I'm sure we have a fix for this Steve, but you might need to wait until 6.6 comes out (which is imminent).
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OK, will be patiently waiting for the changes. Thanks!
-Steve-
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Give 6.6.DR3 a go and let me know if it's fixed.
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It IS fixed (in the 6.6DR version)! Tasks are no longer disappearing when I mark a task as complete. They are also NO LONGER disapearing when I do undo or change filter settings. This is MUCH better. Thanks for the quick fix for this issue! -Steve- 
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I am one step ahead of you, my friend
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.dan.g. wrote: I am one step ahead of you, my friend
Jochen
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Could we have a little more control over the modified date field? I often find that owing to my poor typing skills I have to edit tasks in order to correct typing errors. This is recorded in the modified date field, but for me such actions are not significant modifications meriting recording in this way.
So, would it be possible to allow the user some leeway in changing the modified date field for any edits?
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Todoer wrote: So, would it be possible to allow the user some leeway in changing the modified date field for any edits? Currently the modified date gets updated at the lowest level which makes it hard to apply any higher-level control.
I'll have a think about it.
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