Waiting context issues

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#1

Hi,

I’m trying to make use of the waiting context but am having difficulty getting it to work for me.

I want to put an individual action of a project into the waiting context. However, it appears that the waiting context appears to filter to view only “on hold” statuses.

However, I can’t seem to give an individual action an “on hold” status and therefore it doesn’t immediately appear in the waiting context. Strangely, if i go into the waiting context and change the status of the context to active the action will then appear. the action will then stay there even if i change the status of the context back to “on hold”. Which i guess is a kind of work around, but i don’t want to have to change the status of the context every time…

So is there a good way of simply putting a individual action into the waiting context?

thanks

#2

You probably just have to change your view to show “remaining” rather than “available” tasks when you’re looking at the waiting context. Actions that are assigned to a context which is on hold will not appear in a list of available tasks.

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#3

thanks for the reply.
is there anyway to also put an individual action on hold?

#4

Yes, you can assign it to a context which is on hold, either waiting, or you can create a separate “on hold” context, or whatever else you want.