Project perspective oddness with due dates

[jkratz]

I am trying to set up a project perspective that shows my tasks by project by due date. My filter is set up as such:

Project Filter: Active
Grouping: Due
Sorting: Name
Availability: Remaining
Status: Any
Time: Any

The odd thing is I get stuff showing up in "Due Today" that has a due date set for three days from now. The project the tasks belong to doesnt have a due date but it does have a start date set from a couple days back.

My due soon setting is 2 days.

Any ideas?

I have a similar context perspective that shows things as I expect so not sure what is going on.

Thanks,

Jason

[whpalmer4]

When you are in project mode, the sorting and grouping is by project, not by action, unlike context mode. Everything matching the view from a project is put in the earliest group that matches.

Here's an example which may illustrate what happens:

http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/9369/screenshot20120525at822.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/848/screenshot20120525at822.png/)

The earliest item due in test project 2 was due a month ago, so the whole project is put in the "Due within the last month" group. Beware of this with parallel projects!

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5448/screenshot20120525at823.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/screenshot20120525at823.png/)

For comparison, here's what happens in context mode:

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/5448/screenshot20120525at823.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/804/screenshot20120525at823.png/)

(Sorry, I forgot to switch back to the standard theme before taking snapshots!)

[jkratz]

whpalmer: thanks for the explanation. makes sense of a sort. I understand how it works....just not sure I agree with their choices but thats OK ;)

Also looks similar to the theme i was using (similar to The Hit List look).