[santra]

I don't want to just "drop" it

It's got dozens of projects under it

Anyone have a good hack for this?

[ksrhee]

Originally Posted by santra

I don't want to just "drop" it

It's got dozens of projects under it

Anyone have a good hack for this?

To put a project on hold, just right click and select "hold." Is this what you are asking for?

[santra]

Originally Posted by ksrhee

To put a project on hold, just right click and select "hold." Is this what you are asking for?

Nope. As I stated in the subject of this thread, I want to know how to put a project FOLDER on hold.

Folder right-click gives an abbreviated version of Project right-click. You get two actions: Active and Dropped.

I wanted to be able to put a whole Folder (which has many subfolders and dozens of projects under it) on hold.

Looking for good hack.

Thanks.

[ksrhee]

Originally Posted by santra

Nope. As I stated in the subject of this thread, I want to know how to put a project FOLDER on hold.

Folder right-click gives an abbreviated version of Project right-click. You get two actions: Active and Dropped.

I wanted to be able to put a whole Folder (which has many subfolders and dozens of projects under it) on hold.

Looking for good hack.

Thanks.

OK. I see. Why do you want to put the folder on hold since folders are no more than place holders for projects?

If you want to put all the projects under one folder on hold, you can select multiple projects and right click to put them on hold.

However, I am not sure I see your rationale for putting folders on hold though.

Thanks.

[Toadling]

It might be nice to be able to put folders on hold, but other than the badge that appears on the icon, there's not a lot of practical difference from just marking the folder as dropped. So why not just drop it for now?

Rumor has it the Omni is moving towards a common state model of all database objects in v2.0. Presumably, this means actions, projects, contexts, and folders will all be hold-able and drop-able.

-Dennis

[santra]

What happens if I "drop" the folder?

Is it deleted?

Does it still sync to the iPhone?

[johnjj]

Hi there,

I hereby kindly ask the mighty Omniguys to implement the "on hold"-status
also to Folders.

My point here it's faster shuffling projects in folders than assigning the status
everytime again. This gives me (and probably also others) a more intuitive handling of projects. Like putting a paper folder/list into a someday/maybe-folder.

As soon as you pull it out of it and put it back somewhere else, you're ready.

Since the functionality is already given by with the "dropped"-status,
it shouldn't be much effort, just a question of philosophy.

And there is also a good process reason behind it:
If you do a weekly review you also have to go through your someday/maybe's as one of the last steps. ("get creative")
At the moment you just can do this reasonably by filter all the
projects to see where they all are. But so you loose a lot of folders
in the view. So if you keep those projects in a separate folder like I do,
it's a pain to put them back in a other folder. (use a second window)

cheers & thanks in advance & happy Easter ...

Udo

[Brian]

Thanks for contacting us! I believe there's a feature request open on this in the development database. If folks that want to see this added contact the support ninjas, they can vote the change up on your behalf.

[CatOne]

What happens to Dropped folders when you use the OmniFocus "archive" option? Are they moved to the archive when sufficient time has passed? I want to avoid that. If "Dropped" folders behave identically to "On Hold" projects (that is they will never be archived) then they're workable for me. But I need to know if the archive reaper will claim them as that would be an issue.

[Toadling]

I can't speak with certainty, but it sure seems like dropped folders don't get archived. I have a dropped folder that I use to hold project templates that's been sitting in my main OmniFocus document for years, and it's never been archived.

-Dennis