[Kay]

Is there a way to keep a project open once the last task has been completed? For example, if I have a project called Shopping, this is an ongoing project but every so often I will have completed all the tasks in it so I don't want it to be deleted.

I have tried changing the option in Preferences "When completing the last item, mark the project or group complete" but this didn't seem to make any difference.

[Greg Jones]

The setting in Preferences will only be applied as the default to newly created projects. You can change this on a project by project basis by showing the info for a project (Command-Shift-I) and check/uncheck the 'Mark complete when completing last item' box.

[Kay]

Brilliant! Thank you so much.

[achrysos]

This doesn't work for me. I have tried several times to do this to certain projects only to come back later to discover that they have been marked as completed when the last action is done.

This must be a bug - has nobody else seen this?

In Where in OF , the saveable search:

projects where completed by children is true

will enable you to list (and focus on) all/any projects which are set to be completed by their children.

If you select a range of such projects, you should be able to batch reset their 'completed by children' status with a single click in the Project inspector dialog.


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[achrysos]

Thanks - but my point is that each time that I uncheck the "Mark complete when completing last item", I will then return to that project and it will be set again. Not immediately - and this is what is really puzzling - but after an undetermined amount of time (days/weeks).

In my mind this is clearly a bug, but I just cannot see a common denominator in what I do that might trigger it, i.e. reset the checkbox.