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Submitted by jan_rifkinson on 2009/06/13 15:43

I have what I call a GTD grid.

I have attached it's properties

Situation:

As soon as I add a new item IQ is immediately assigning it to a GTD_Pndg field

I don't understand why.

Item field has the following auto-assign equation:

Can someone plse explain why this is happening.

Thank you.

Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

Comments

How do you add your item ? through the add item window (what are the selected options in the add item window ?) ? directly in your GTD grid (if yes, what's the source, are there any automatic assignment ?) ?

In the specific case cited I was entering item directly into the grid.

Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

HP Blackbird Vista Ultimate SP-1

So, as Pierre said... All top level items directly entered in a grid get the "simple source" assigned.

See Getting Started and 4. Searching and Filtering Items.

The grid source is "GTD_Pndg or ..."

So to ensure that all TLI items entered in the grid will stay there, that field is automatically assigned to them. All grids work this way (check the properties pane for any other grid as you add a TLI)

(you may know this, but just in case, items don't belong in any specific grid, but grids display items that meet a given criteria)

Would it be better to change source = all or inbox & filter for GTD items?

Would that stop it?

bump

Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

HP Blackbird Vista Ultimate SP-1

>Would that stop it?

Yes it would (this is perhaps the only difference between the source and the filter... apart from the fact that the filter can be turned on/off easily)

The field = Item has the following equation:

It appears to me that the "Lmsg" & the "wcb" portions of this equation do not play well together, i.e.

with both elements in the equation, one of the equations ceases to work

moreover

GTD_Pndg field has equation =

A:WikiTag=AddKeyWord(WikiTag,"{pndg}")|E:WikiTag=RemoveKeyWord(WikiTag,"{pndg}")|A:ItemColor=&HCAFFFF|E:ItemColor=

and neither works in the above situation.

Jan Rifkinson

Ridgefield CT USA

HP Blackbird Vista Ultimate SP-1

>and neither works in the above situation

Which one ?

It shouldn't create any problem.

> It appears to me that the "Lmsg" & the "wcb" portions of this equation do not play well together

[...]

>and neither works in the above situation.

Jan : it's all logical. There's nothing in there that shouldn't work. I have many rules of that type and they all work. It's probably some other rule you inserted somewhere else that contradict one another. The second rule for the wikitag insertion probably doesn't wirk because the GTD_Pndg field is not checked in the first place.

I've received a sample file from Jan, and can confirm that there is a problem with multiple auto-assigns. The solution is certainly simple, but will have to wait a few days to fix it.

hmmm Interrestingly, I don't have any problem with mine. Weird.