[mcogilvie]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

Are you sure about that? I hadn't seen it prior to a few days before 1.7 shipped, and I am a very heavy user of that functionality.

I have had OF on the iPhone since it was first released, and was never able to move an item inside another item that did not already have another item inside it. So yes, I'm pretty sure that move was at least partially broken from early on.

As for reporting it, the simple truth is that I have never been completely sold on OF as my tool of choice. I find it a bit inflexible. I've probably spent more time using Toodledoo over the last few years. I'm looking forward to seeing how the iPad version of OF is- that will probably determine things (accidental pun) for me.

[whpalmer4]

Originally Posted by mcogilvie

I have had OF on the iPhone since it was first released, and was never able to move an item inside another item that did not already have another item inside it. So yes, I'm pretty sure that move was at least partially broken from early on.

Well, now hold on — let's not conflate two different issues here. This bug is only that the list of potential targets is not fully drawn, making it impossible to move the action because there's nowhere to choose to move it to. Rotating the device causes the necessary redraw which draws the whole list. You may well have had difficulty moving things under other actions (perhaps the description in the manual is wrong, or somehow misleading) but I don't think it was because of this bug.

Are you running OF 1.7 on your iPhone now? If not, can you still reproduce the bug? Create a project, add two actions to it, tap the second action, tap the refile button (looks like a file folder), you should get a list that has as choices:

Convert to Project
Move Inside Another Item:
[] Your project
Your first action

Tapping your first action should move the second action inside.

If you're seeing this bug, you won't get the list of items under "Move Inside Another Item:"

Assuming you are not seeing this bug, but are still having a problem, what exactly happens when you do the steps I just outlined?

[mcogilvie]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

Well, now hold on — let's not conflate two different issues here. This bug is only that the list of potential targets is not fully drawn, making it impossible to move the action because there's nowhere to choose to move it to. Rotating the device causes the necessary redraw which draws the whole list. You may well have had difficulty moving things under other actions (perhaps the description in the manual is wrong, or somehow misleading) but I don't think it was because of this bug.

Are you running OF 1.7 on your iPhone now? If not, can you still reproduce the bug? Create a project, add two actions to it, tap the second action, tap the refile button (looks like a file folder), you should get a list that has as choices:

Convert to Project
Move Inside Another Item:
[] Your project
Your first action

Tapping your first action should move the second action inside.

If you're seeing this bug, you won't get the list of items under "Move Inside Another Item:"

Assuming you are not seeing this bug, but are still having a problem, what exactly happens when you do the steps I just outlined?

What I am telling you is that I was NEVER able to move one item inside another item that did not already have another item inside. I don't remember the details of my various attempts. It works now, modulo the display bug, which I now understand. That's really all I care about.

I am using 1.7, and the bug is there, but I hope it will be fixed. Interestingly, I don't see the bug when I add a new project, but I do see it with items added to an existing project. Feel free to submit a bug report- I probably won't bother.

[ifonline]

Originally Posted by mcogilvie

I am using 1.7, and the bug is there, but I hope it will be fixed. Interestingly, I don't see the bug when I add a new project, but I do see it with items added to an existing project. Feel free to submit a bug report- I probably won't bother.

Interesting. Why wouldn't you "bother" with submitting a bug report?

[mcogilvie]

Originally Posted by ifonline

Interesting. Why wouldn't you "bother" with submitting a bug report?

Because it appears to be a known bug, there is a workaround, and most importantly I'm really not committed to omnifocus.

[Brian]

Originally Posted by mcogilvie

I am using 1.7, and the bug is there, but I hope it will be fixed. Interestingly, I don't see the bug when I add a new project, but I do see it with items added to an existing project. Feel free to submit a bug report- I probably won't bother.

We can't fix bugs we can't reproduce, though. Setting aside the rotate-device issue, here's what I tried. Project and Context modes are set to Remaining in Settings so action groups are displayed.

1) Quit and restarted the app. (As opposed to sending it to the background.)
2) opened my Test projects folder, selected a project that contained four actions. No action groups here. Just a project with four child rows.
3) Tapped Edit. Selected the fourth item in the project.
4) Tapped move button. Rotated the phone. Filed fourth action into the first action.

Tapping the back button now, I'm taken from the action, to the action I embedded it into, and finally, back to the top level of the project.

Just in case it works for the top-level item, but not for ones later in the project, I repeated the steps above, filing the 3rd item into the 2nd. That worked as well.

If you can help me reproduce the bug, we can fix it. But until then, we can't do anything about it...