Hide some folders in Planning mode
 

My Planning mode Library has a couple of administrative folders plus a folder for each of my consulting clients.

The list of folders is about to overflow the sidebar, resulting in a vertical scroll bar. I'd like to shorten this list of folder by hiding the clients with no active projects. I can select a client folder, select everything in the main pane, and change the status to On Hold. The main pane goes blank, but the folder remains in the sidebar.

Is there a way to hide specific folders in the sidebar pane?

The best I can come up with is to create an "inactive" folder and move specific client folders into that collapsed folder.

-- Ward

Perhaps I'm not understanding, but why not just mark the client folders as "Dropped", then set the view bar to only show Active (or Remaining) projects?

[QUOTE=curt.clifton]Perhaps I'm not understanding, but why not just mark the client folders as "Dropped", then set the view bar to only show Active (or Remaining) projects?[/QUOTE]
Curt, you're understanding just what I want.

It's that I didn't understand how to set the status of a folder. I thought I wanted to set it to On Hold, but I couldn't find a way to do that. Now that I know "Dropped" is the right terminology, I searched the Help to find how to set that status - Help didn't help. Scanning the menus also came up empty.

Finally, I tried the contextual menu on a selected folder - Voila!

Is Drop Folder somewhere in the regular menus? Help on "drop" identifies only Sidebar Filter > Dropped.

-- Ward

[QUOTE=Ward;52501]Now that I know "Dropped" is the right terminology, I searched the Help to find how to set that status - Help didn't help. Scanning the menus also came up empty.[/QUOTE]

Good catch - written up as a documentation bug!

Edit - hmmm... actually, I'm getting a couple of other topics that appear when I search on "Drop". Unfortunately, the help system in OS X doesn't always delete the cache files it uses to do the text searching when it should.

Ward, if you quit OmniFocus, follow the steps mentioned in this [URL="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031027162152421"]macosxhints.com article[/URL], and relaunch the app, do you see more results?