[quote=Tom]

 

Say a grid shows some TLI's that meet the source and some which are context parents

 

1) If I use the sortbox & sort by item, it sorts items that meet the filter only

2) If I use the sortbar (not the sortbox!) & sort by item, it will sort by the TLI's regardless of whether they are Context parents or not

 

It's helpful to have both options but I'm just wondering,

is it possible to do (#2) via the sortbox?  

 

(I suspect not, but I guess when saved sorting comes it wont matter!)

 

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The answer is normally "no"... Because the context parents are... "context parents", not "real" grid TLIs. So, as they're not part of the grid, they are not taken into consideration during sorting (doing so would -- in most cases -- create all kinds of headaches...)

 

What you could do though : tag all these items that show up as TLIs (context parents and real TLIs) and then use add the "itemstagged" field in your filter text box.

 

So let's say you have a filter that says "due is null and followup is null", you could make it  "due is null and followup is null and itemstagged"... This of course would work temporarily  -- ie : work as long as your tagged items list remains the same...