Add 'Apply Filters to Subtasks Yes|No' option
While filters can be very useful in List mode, applying the same filters to subtasks can be counterproductive at times. For instance say I Filter to tasks for Today only. I have several tasks with substaks I've added. I don't want to necessarily filter the subtasks not set to today out since I'll probably be using this very view to figure out which subtasks to assign/organize/date. So being able to easily turn the current filters off for subtasks in the filtered view would make that possible.
Hi Michael, thank you for posting here! Wanted to make sure I got that right: you'd like to have an option to choose whether a set of filtering criteria will apply to tasks, subtasks, or both? Do you encounter these difficulties only when filtering by date, or are there other use cases? I'd love to hear about your experience with this!
Hi Anastasia thanks for the quick reply. My 'use case' is that I will use filters to limit my list view to just specific types of tasks i want to view, generally ones that are 'In Progress' or assigned to a specific Date or Date-Range and/or a specific user. Yet I will have/add substasks to each of those that may or may not meet that criteria. I still want to see them however in order to assign/prioritze those; perhaps I want to assign subtasks to a different person then the original filter or a different status or priority or state-date. However without the ability to view the Subtasks unfiltered i cannot do so.
Michael, thanks for following up! I appreciate the additional info, that does make sense.
Hi, I would like to put my 2 cents with my "case" that could be probably also resolved by the tasks/subtasks/both option sugested by Anastasia.
Imagine a widget created from filtered list view. For instance, showing all completed tasks from some folder. If there is a task in the folder that is not completed yet but its subtask are already completed, it will not be listed there but all its subtasks will. There could be a great number of such subtasks. They will not be even collapsed since its parent task is not completed yet. This can make the list unusable since it gets exploded by a great number of records that are not relevant at that moment. This situation could be resolved if it would be somehow possible to filter out subtasks.