Verify Next Actions Exist
I've posted a "Verify Next Actions Exist" script to [URL="http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~clifton/software.html#VerifyNA"]my software downloads[/URL] page. This scripts scans all projects and action groups to identify those without an identified next action.
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Dude! You are my hero!
Nice job on this. One suggestion... I added a line after line 131... in the accumulateMissingNAsTask handler set end of accum to name -- CONSIDER: build better identifying string here set note of theTask to note of theTask & "NoAction" This will place a note in the project. Now after this has run, I can go to the search field and enter NoAction... All my projects without actions show up! It may be helpful to have a script that clears that out of the note, but right now I'm comfortable with doing it by hand. Thanks for the code! |
my addition adds it to any tasks that had children that no longer have tasks... so a project can have children that at one point had tasks.
-MyParentProject --myChildTask - tagged as no action ---myGrandTask -complete May be a bug in the script... I'll look into it more |
I need to search for that note before it adds the note... otherwise... it will continue to append the note
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[QUOTE=SpiralOcean]I need to search for that note before it adds the note... otherwise... it will continue to append the note[/QUOTE]
Here is the fix: if note of theTask does not contain "NoActions" then set note of theTask to note of theTask & "NoActions" end if |
[QUOTE=SpiralOcean]my addition adds it to any tasks that had children that no longer have tasks... so a project can have children that at one point had tasks.
-MyParentProject --myChildTask - tagged as no action ---myGrandTask -complete May be a bug in the script... I'll look into it more[/QUOTE] Looks like the script is treating this as a project... which... maybe it is a project. Sub-projects of a project. |
This is huge! Huge! It was a large missing portion of my workflow. I know Omni is working on this one, but what a relief to be able to see projects that need to be completed or a next action assigned!
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There is a slight bug with this...
it will not detect projects that have never had an action associated with it. |
Good catch. I'll tweak the recursion to check top-level projects without children. Also, great idea annotating the projects to allow searching for those missing a next action! I'll incorporate that into the updated script.
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I've posted the updated script to [URL="http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~clifton/software.html#VerifyNA"]my software downloads page[/URL]. The script now catches top-level projects without any children. It also prefixes the name of offending projects with "Missing NA". The particular prefix is controlled by a property in the script. You can set the property to use the empty string if you want to disable this feature.
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