[VicDiesel]

Originally Posted by pvonk

If the 15 chapters must be reviewed by a certain date (perhaps your boss expects a report), then create a project with that due date. Then enter each of the 15 chapters as individual actions, in the right order.

That is easy to do. But I have lots of projects that don't have a due date, or at least they can slide. For instance, I want to turn the lecture notes of a class I just taught into a book. I can take half a year for that, I can take a whole year. So I want to enter tasks "do section A, do section B" a week apart, but in case something urgent comes up I want to be able to move the whole project back by a week or two.

It sounds like you're trying to have OF remind you periodically to read a certain chapter. What you need is to have "Read chapter 1" permanently on you list of things to do until you check it off.

Right. But the task "read chapter 2" should not come up until a few days after chapter 1 is completed.

Victor.

[sprugman]

So I want to enter tasks "do section A, do section B" a week apart, but in case something urgent comes up I want to be able to move the whole project back by a week or two.

I think I would handle this by putting a due date just on the current section, or perhaps the current and the next. Then in a weekly review, I'd update what has a due date. I might put the end date on the whole project, and bump just that forward whenever I had slippage.

[pvonk]

Originally Posted by VicDiesel

Right. But the task "read chapter 2" should not come up until a few days after chapter 1 is completed.

Victor.

Ah... I seem to recall a discussion along these lines some time ago; folks referred to it as conditional start date, or some such thing. I don't think it really generated a lot of interest, and I'm quite sure it won't be in version 1.

[VicDiesel]

Originally Posted by pvonk

Ah... I seem to recall a discussion along these lines some time ago; folks referred to it as conditional start date, or some such thing.

Well, it's really the same idea as repeating tasks which come up so many days after completion. For this to work, a repeating task with subtasks should consider its current instance to be completed if a subtask is completed.

Anyway, sprugman's suggestion of scheduling only one subtask and relying on review is not a bad one.

Victor.