New actions show up gray/italic
 

Hi,

I have to assign a project (named it (next) "Actions") to new single actions before they turn from grey/italic to black. I may delete the project right away afterwards and the actions will stay black.

This happens to both new actions I add via QuickEntry and also with the actions I added using the iGTD-Importer I found here:

[url]http://web.mac.com/robinfrancistrew/iWeb/Site/iGTD2OmniFocus.html[/url]

Is this a bug or is it me making a mistake?

Thanks

Tim

[QUOTE=tkaufmann;18920]Is this a bug or is it me making a mistake?[/QUOTE]

It appears to be a bug. Have you reported it with "Send Feedback..."?

[QUOTE=brianogilvie;18930]It appears to be a bug. Have you reported it with "Send Feedback..."?[/QUOTE]

Yes I did.

Tim

[QUOTE=tkaufmann;18920]Hi,

I have to assign a project (named it (next) "Actions") to new single actions before they turn from grey/italic to black. I may delete the project right away afterwards and the actions will stay black.[/QUOTE]

Also, setting a start date in the future does not remove the item from a filtered-by-availability-view before adding and then removing the action to and from a project (Sent that in via Feedback, too).

Tim

Sorry, yes, there are some bugs with singleton actions at the moment. These bugs and others should be fixed when we finish adding a default "quick list" for singletons.

[QUOTE=Ken Case;18959]Sorry, yes, there are some bugs with singleton actions at the moment. These bugs and others should be fixed when we finish adding a default "quick list" for singletons.[/QUOTE]

Any guess when that will be? ;-)

Tim

I found this a while back and sent feedback about it as well.

Coincidentally, I found a workaround today that appears to work as of build 89717. (I haven't tried it with earlier builds.)

If you assign the singleton items to a parallel project and then un-assign them, they appear to function normally again. This persisted across restarts, and I was even able to back up and restore the database successfully.

However, this does not seem to migrate to a different Mac; I copied my OmniFocus file from my laptop to my work machine and the old behavior returns. I also created a backup of my database and restored it onto my work machine; no change.

[b]EDIT:[/b] It appears as if the change is largely cosmetic. After shuffling my Omnifocus file back and forth a couple of times, now my singleton actions are formatted correctly but still behave as inactive actions. So disregard my workaround above and hope, with me, that this gets fixed soon. :)

I just created an "Actions"-Project and assigned all solo actions to it. Seems to work well.

Tim