Sort by Start Date, then Effort
When working on the same project several times a day, TC would list sub-tasks alphabetically, if it's sorted by start date. Would it be possible to list using two "layers", first by start date, then by the actual effort time, so you'd have all tasks listed in timely order? I pretty often use TC for customer reports, where it is necessary to document the development accurately.
Besides being workable by doing one sort and then the other, the full functioning of this will be accomplished by this other request:
http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/371680-save-presets-of-defined-filters-and-sorting
Please vote for that. Thanks!
Also, this is the exact mechanism, you could vote for that too:
http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/2448267-multiple-active-sort-criteria-sort-by-then-by-t
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B.J. Herbison commented
Thanks for the response. I never new that a secondary sort was implemented because I don't see that effect.
After your response I investigated and added two items to the tracker that address most (maybe all) of the issues I have been seeing.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3562103&group_id=130831&atid=719134
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3562106&group_id=130831&atid=719134Thank you for your work on Task Coach.
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AdminAaron Wolf (Admin, Task Coach) commented
Hi BJ,
There is a chance there is a bug and it isn't working as expected, but let's not assume that yet. To be clear though, there have been some bugs reported about the system not updating. So one option to try if we think it is actually a bug is to first download the latest bugfix release from:
http://www.fraca7.net/TaskCoach-packages/latest_bugfixes.pyBut perhaps there is something going on with case sensitive sorting? Or with the "sort by status first" settings?
These are available in the view menu under sort. the latter also is turned on and off by clicking extra times in the column headers.Note: it can be screwy because sorting by subject should be ascending but sorting by priority (for example) is usually descending. So there's no obvious way to do one and then the other without an unwanted backwards sorting happening in the middle some way or other.
I'd like to see this fixed, but at least the other request I linked to will make this basically work. -
B.J. Herbison commented
> Besides being workable by doing one sort and then the other, ..
This doesn't work for me. When I sort by Subject the Due Date the only sort is by Due date--items with the same Due Date are not sorted by Subject.
What am I missing?
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B.J. Herbison commented
Sorry, the URL got mangled. It is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_sort#Stability
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B.J. Herbison commented
This can be accomplished by primary and secondary sorts, or by using a stable sort -- when sorting by column x, don't change the order any pair of entries that match in column x.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_sort#Stability>Stable sorts allow a user to sort by column y then by column x, and x ends up as the primary sort with y the secondary sort.