OmniFocus stores the information about what columns are visible on a per-perspective basis. If you're seeing those columns some of the time and not seeing them at other times, this is likely why.
The fix for this has two parts; each is optional, depending on what you'd like your setup to be. First, you can set the baseline behavior - "show these columns, and hide these ones, unless my perspective tells you differently." Then, you can go ahead and save perspective-specific overrides to the default behavior into your various perspectives. Instructions for both approaches follow.
Setting the default behavior
Setting the behavior in a specific perspective
Hope this helps!
Edit: for the 2nd time in 2 days, changed "command-click" to "control-click". No cookie for Brian!
The fix for this has two parts; each is optional, depending on what you'd like your setup to be. First, you can set the baseline behavior - "show these columns, and hide these ones, unless my perspective tells you differently." Then, you can go ahead and save perspective-specific overrides to the default behavior into your various perspectives. Instructions for both approaches follow.
Setting the default behavior
- Open OmniFocus
- Select Perspectives -> Revert to Default View
- Select View -> Show View Bar (if the menu item reads "Hide View Bar", skip this step.)
- Control-Click the white column headers that appear just beneath the view bar. A contextual menu will appear with three choices: Estimate, Start Date, and Due Date. If you select an item from the context menu, the corresponding column will become visible.
- Quit OmniFocus to make sure we save this change to your preferences.
Setting the behavior in a specific perspective
- Open OmniFocus
- Select the perspective you want to edit from the Perspectives menu.
- Select View -> Show View Bar (if the menu item reads "Hide View Bar", skip this step.)
- Control-Click the Column headers. A contextual menu will appear with three choices: Estimate, Start Date, and Due Date. If you select an item from the context menu, the corresponding column will become visible.
- Select Perspectives -> Take Snapshot of Perspective. You should be good to go at this point.
Hope this helps!
Edit: for the 2nd time in 2 days, changed "command-click" to "control-click". No cookie for Brian!
Last edited by Brian; 2009-08-10 at 04:48 PM.. Reason: remove reference to a change made before OmniFocus 1.0 shipped.