When a group action set on hold, active actions in the group should be on hold too

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#1

I think it’s not consistent. because:

  1. When a project set on hold, actions in the project are set on hold too.
  2. When a group action set defer/due dates, actions in the group are set the same defer/due dates too, if they don’t have there own.

but when a group action set on hold, actions in the group are not set on hold, if they were active before.

#2

I’m sorry, I’m not really sure what you mean by setting a group action on hold. Action groups don’t support the same range of statuses that projects do; I don’t think you can put an action group on hold. For example, this is my current Inspector panel for a selected action group:

Could you post a screenshot or two that indicates how you’re setting an action group on hold?

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#3

Sorry I didn’t explain how i set an action on hold. First of all, I setup a new context named “waiting” whose status is on hold. Then I set the action’s context “waiting”, and the action’s status turns “on hold”.
Is it a proper way to set an action on hold? If not, why there’s only active and completed status, not an on hold status, for an action?

#4

Ah, I understand. That’s a perfectly fine way to put an action on hold – what I think is happening is that the inherited status from the Waiting context just doesn’t propagate down an action group the way it does in a project. Put another way: if you want all of the actions in the group to be on hold, you can assign them all to the Waiting context.

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