[peterlemer]

Using 'flagged' as 'Pay attention to this one!':

If I view 'flagged' with everything collapsed, I only see the parent projects, many with no flags since it's actions /within/ the project that are flagged.

So I have to randomly open the project folders to see what and why there's a flag there.

If I view 'flagged' with everything expanded, I get shedloads of unflagged material as well.

Is there any way to get a straightforward list of flagged items?

peter

[Toadling]

The best way to do this, I believe, is to setup your "Flagged" perspective to use context view, where actions are show independently of their projects.

-Dennis

[malisa]

A related question, one time I had lots of 'ghost flags'. I think I had figured out that I had flagged a project and it sort of gave the actions flags, but not really.

Am I remembering this right? Had I figured it out right?

[brianogilvie]

Malisa--yes, you are right. If you flag a project or an action group, its children inherit the flag, but the inherited flag is displayed in a faded, translucent style so that you can tell that the flag was applied to the project, not the action.

The idea is that by flagging a project, you want to flag its actions too so you can see them in context mode if you filter by flagged items.

[peterlemer]

OK - thanks Toadling, malisa, brainogilvie for the wee conversation - it's clearer now - especially the 'ghost flags' thingy.

So my question becomes - is there a way to view flagged items without ghosts?

IOW a straightforward list of flagged items?

peter

[whpalmer4]

Originally Posted by peterlemer

OK - thanks Toadling, malisa, brainogilvie for the wee conversation - it's clearer now - especially the 'ghost flags' thingy.

So my question becomes - is there a way to view flagged items without ghosts?

IOW a straightforward list of flagged items?

peter

What are you trying to accomplish? Why wouldn't you want the "ghost" or inherited flags to show up? You must have flagged their project or action group, so why wouldn't you want to see the action?

You could view in project mode, flagged actions, ungrouped, and collapse everything. Then if you only expand the projects that aren't showing flags themselves, you'll see the projects that contain actions with their own individual flags.

[Toadling]

Understand that items with "ghost flags" actually *are* flagged items (more accurately, they have implied flags). Since context view only shows actions, you won't see a flagged project. However, you will see all of its actions that have inherited the flagged state.

If you don't want items with inherited flags to appear in you context view perspective, you'll have to explicitly flag the items you want to see rather than flagging the entire project.

-Dennis