I am a little confused about something, maybe somebody could shed some light.
I have a sequential project, with some actions listed. The project itself has a start date, no due date. Start date is today.
In the forecast view, I have “Show deferred” selected.
What is confusing me is that it is showing ALL actions for this project, and not just the next available action, which is what I would have expected?
Or is my expectations flawed?
Thanks!
Johann.
Edit to add: The iPhone version does the same thing, but it seems to me it should only show the next action. Else it clutters up the list a lot. Any insight would be appreciated.
I believe the current behavior is intended. If I think I only have one thing due today, I might sleep until noon, then do that one thing. Then I’d be horrified to discover that when I complete that thing, another due thing arises, like a hydra.
Forecast is an overview of the day. For the view you want, you could craft a custom perspective grouped by due date and filtered by availability.
I was wondering if there is a solution on that. I created a sequential project with the tasks e.g. for completing a business trip. So there always is only one next action available. But the tasks of the project inherited the dates (e.g. planned) from the project. So in forecast view, there is a number for today which sums all tasks of that project, also if there were not planned for today, because there only available after the first step on the list is done. The forecast view is not applicable of having a available task flag.
So I can create a custom perspective, but the forecast seems very useful because of its “next day header”.
The app is behaving as expected in Forecast views.
If the tasks have inherited the project due date (because individual tasks do not have their own due dates) then they will show as due in the forecast view. This makes sense as if the project is due to be completed by a date, at the latest all of the tasks within that project must also be due by the same date.
Forecast does not recognise tasks as Available or Remaining as it’s somewhere to plan for the future. If you can’t see that 10 tasks are due on Tuesday you can’t plan for it. By the same token, if you have a project with tasks due every day next week, you want to be able to see that when planning for next week.
If only seeing “Available” tasks due today is your preferred view, you need to build your own perspective only showing available tasks
