I have a common perspective that I use that basically looks at actions that are available to me to do today - my “To Do Dashboard.” It’s a screen I operate in the most.
Is it right that in the current beta, I can’t do Command+N while viewing a perspective to create a new task? That’s the way it seems to me now, and Command+N (or clicking New Action) does nothing when I’m in my perspective. To add new tasks, I need to go to the Inbox.
I’ve searched around for notes about this, whether it is an intended behavior, or a fix is coming, etc., but I haven’t found much.
Would love to know if others are experiencing the same thing.
FWIW, I find this happens only in a Context perspective with no other actions already in that context. If there is at least one other action in that Context, then Common+N works.
In Projects perspectives, Command+N always works for me whether the Project is empty or not.
I have found that not to be the case. Right now, my “To Do Dashboard” context has a number of tasks in the list, but hitting Command+N has no effect, and does not allow me to enter a new task. This is in contrast to what both @gcarnold and @rogbar say above.
In case it helps people figure out what they’re seeing, we have an issue filed where command-n works in the top level of the context tree, but not in the ones lower down.
Example: if you have an “Errands” context with a number of child contexts representing various stores, the shortcut will work in the former but not in the latter. Basically, if a context is filed inside another one, command-n doesn’t work as expected right now.
Hey Brian, I have a problem where if I’m in the Contexts view, and I’m in a context that has no existing tasks, and I hit command-N or right-click to “New Action” it doesn’t work. Not quite what I see you describing above.
Yeah, since that post went up, we/I realized that the first report was of a sub context not working, but the issue’s actually broader than that. Issue filed and updated in the bug tracker, but I never made it back around to this thread. Thanks for clarifying in your post!
As a work around, I use the Quick Entry Shortcut (which I set in Preferences) to add new tasks when I am in a perspective view that will not allow me to add a new task by using Cmd+N.
Thanks Jake. That worked in a fashion. I found that I still needed to enter the project name.
Going into the preferences started me looking at other settings.
I found that selection the option
Perspectives -> Show Perspectives -> Your perspective name -> Project Hierarchy -> Use Project Hierarchy
changes the left hand panel to only show the project (and its subproject) you are working in, but CMD+N works, and the New Action button works.