[mianwright]

Periodically, my "start" and "due" columns will disappear from the default "Inbox" view. To get them back, I go to "View" -> "Columns" and check "start date" and "due date," and they reappear.

Is this behavior by design? Am I overlooking something? I really need to be able to control start and due dates while processing my inbox.

Thanks for any ideas y'all may have.

[Brian]

The show/hide settings for those columns are saved on a per-perspective basis. I believe they default to "hide", so unless your perspectives specifically show them, that could explain what you're seeing here.

Try opening up each of your perspectives in turn; if the columns are hidden, show them, then select the "save snapshot of <perspective>" command from the Perspectives menu.

Does that help at all?

[mianwright]

Hey Brian. Thanks for your reply.

I'm using perspectives quite a bit already, so I actually just created a custom "Inbox 0" to replace the default inbox. I can show due date, start date and estimate in my custom inbox. So, problem solved; with a work-around.

The question remains. Does the default Inbox "perspective" have due date, start date, etc., automatically set to show up?

[Brian]

The built in perspectives don't have the columns specifically shown or hidden; they'll simply leave whatever columns are visible in that window the way they are.

Maybe your default view has the columns set to hide?