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Originally Posted by Greg Jones
Next Action: Only the next in list, remaining task in each project that is not blocked by a start date. This is the most restrictive filter of all, as it treats parallel projects as if they are sequential.
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Not quite correct. The next action shown for a parallel project is the first available action scanning down from the top. If you make a parallel project with two actions, set a future start date on the first action but not the second, and view next actions, you'll see the second action (but not the first). If both are available, you'll see the first action (but not the second).
With a single action list, all available actions are shown as next actions, not just the first one encountered reading down the list. If you converted that parallel project to a single action list, the case with one available and one with a future start date would show the available action only in a Next Action view, and when both were available, would show both in a Next Action view. By default, single action list actions get different styling, in part so that you can recognize them in a Next Action view.