Submitted by Armando on 2010/07/18 21:03
I'm asking as I'm still  struggling to filter out these TLIs which are also children of other TLIs in the same grid context.
It hasn't been implemented globally, for some technical reasons, probably...
 
But maybe would that be possible as a function that the user could turns on/off ?
 
To be honest, it's often impossible to filter out these TLIs which are also children of other TLIs in a same grid, and,  when dealing with projects, it's really annoying : I can't have a task list without these redundant items completely throwing out the effort calculation.

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Surely if you change the source of the grid, you can have these items appear only once...
 
Also, have you considered hoisting to show only the TLI you want ?
 

Armando

2010/07/19 12:40

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Thanks for the suggestions.
 
[quote=Pierre_Admin]
Surely if you change the source of the grid, you can have these items appear only once...
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Maybe, but how ?
 
The source of my task grid is : Task or zzTask
 
zztask has inheritance ON
The grid auto-assigns it to all items entered in the grid (I'm not taking any chances here !)
 

[quote=Pierre_Admin]
Also, have you considered hoisting to show only the TLI you want ?
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This would be super cumbersome as I would have to :
 
1- Manually select in a list of sometimes several hundred items, those that are wanted TLIs. This is not always obvious at all without checking in all the hierarchies if I did put these items as SLIs or not.
 
2- Then work in a hoisted environment where I need to constantly rehoist the new created items.
 
 
I understand that some one might want to have an item appear both as a TLI and a SLI. But I think that generally speaking, it's disturbing and time consuming to have an item that's been classified under a parent to reappear as a TLI.
 
Often I have to double check if an item has been properly classified or not, if I forgot something or not, etc

Armando

2010/07/19 23:57

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I actually use a few strategies. I have a field called TLI, and another one called NotTLI. This allows me to filter out those items appearing as TLI but should not. However, It has some drawbacks as an item can sometimes be a TLI in a grid, and a child in another... However it's marked as NotTLI, which is problematic in the grid where it needs to appear as TLI ; hence the converse TLI switch... But this is all very cumbersome to manipulate.
 
Anyhow... I'll wait for your suggestions concerning the source.