Originally Posted by curt.clifton

I reported a bug sometime back where selecting multiple items and changing that checkbox doesn't stick. Changing one project or action group at a time works, but not batch changing several. Is that what's happening here?

I notice that batch setting of the 'completed by children' property of several selected projects seems to be working (and surviving at least a quit and reload) in the current 1.8 sneaky peeks.

(Based on projects where completed by children is true|false tests in Where in OF)

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[curt.clifton]

Originally Posted by RobTrew

I notice that batch setting of the 'completed by children' property of several selected projects seems to be working (and surviving at least a quit and reload) in the current 1.8 sneaky peeks.

achrysos, are you running 1.7.x or the 1.8 sneaky peeks?

[jashan]

I'm running the current version (1.9.3) and the same is happening to me. It seems that this may be related to synching (I mostly sync with iPad; less frequently with iPhone).

I'm trying this all with "Single Actions" projects. And with some, it seems to persist. When I uncheck the option ("Mark complete when completing last item" in Project Inspector), it does get saved. After closing / re-opening OmniFocus, it's still there.

However, after a while, it will be checked again (and I'm certainly not the one checking it ;-) ). I just synched the Mac App, then the iPad App, then the Mac App again. Still unchecked.

Then, I changed one item in a project that had it unchecked, on the iPad ("+1 day" on both start and due). Synched iPad, synched Mac - and the checkbox was active again.

So, this should reproduce it. At least on MobileMe-sync (which is what I'm using).

[mpw]

I, too, have been seeing this kind of behavior. I'm unable to reproduce it, but I have created Single Action projects for each of my family members as well as Single Action Work:Priority and Work:Miscellaneous projects several times each. They always seem to disappear, presumably when I complete the last action in the list. I don't notice it until the next time I want to add a task to the project that I *know* I created at one point but is no longer there.

I wonder if it has something to do with syncing to my iPod Touch, but, as I said, I am unable to reproduce it.

[jashan]

I've just moved over to OmniSync - and it's still happening there as well, with all the most recent versions of OmniFocus (on iPad, iPhone and Mac).

I'm also "sending feedback" on this - hopefully this will eventually get fixed because it's really annoying (usually what happens is that suddenly, some project "magically disappeared" because obviously I don't always check that checkbox and frequently don't immediately notice a project disappeared; especially if it's one that I'm only using sparingly).

[jashan]

I have good news: I just tried to reproduce the issue, and wasn't able to. The reason was because I changed the default setting in OmniFocus for Mac to "unchecked". So, now this issue still happens when I have a project with the flag checked (the bug then unchecks the flag when there's changes on the iPad that are being synced back to the Mac) - but that's something I can live with.

So, to be more precise in the description of the issue:

OmniFocus for Mac has projects reset to the default value as set in "Preferences / Data / Projects & Action Groups / When completing the last item ( ) Mark the project or group complete" when there are changes being made in the project on the iPad which are being synced back (I tried renaming the project and adding / ticking off items).

So, at least for me, there's a workaround that's "good enough".