OK, here are URLs you can use to control this behavior in r209607. The first turns off empty contexts in the main outline, the second turns them back on, and the third returns to whatever our default behavior is:
In previous iterations of OmniFocus 2, if you selected a subset of contexts from the side menu, you would only see contexts/context headers under which were were “active” actions.
Example, you choose “Office” for the context, the main window might show “three” nested Office contexts where there were “active” actions (let’s say, for this example, that you were only looking at flagged actions).
Now, under the same circumstances, if you choose “Office”, it shows you all the context headers in the main window, whether or not there is an “active” action or now. You might just see a context header and nothing beneath it.
Is there a way to hide those context headers that have no active under them?
Oh, thank heavens there’s a hidden pref for this. Glad I searched, a little piece of me was dying every day since r209302. I kept scouring the view options figuring I must have screwed something up.
Hidden preference = non-ideal
Hidden preference = WAY better than nothing.
I have a perspective with these settings. The resulting perspective looks like this.
I find it annoying that I have to see these huge contexts that have nothing in them. (Eg. Errands, Home : Phone, Home : Mac). If I set Filter Contexts to “Active”, it removes, in this case, Home : Phone and Home : Mac, but Errands remains. Ideally, I’d only see Errands : Columbia, and Errands would be hidden as well.
By the way, if the hidden preference in @kcase’s post is helpful to you, please ‘like’ the post. That’s one of the ways that Discourse figures out which posts are the most important/useful ones; it tries to make those posts easier for other visitors to find. So, by liking the post, you’re helping everyone else that has this problem in the future. Thanks!
I find there are somethings strange in the hidden preference.
First, this Hidden means “This Context is TOTAL Empty and had nothing in it” not “This Context is Empty in this Perspective” Maybe the latter is much more useful and graceful.
Second, if I choose a context in SideBar Selection and that context is empty, when I click the Perspective, the context is not there and the sidebar will have no focus on the context. Could it be better show the context if the context is empty when the context is selected at “Sidebar Selection”?
