adding a task to a smart list doesn't add it to the underlying (non-smart) list
ashirley says:
I have a smart list with the following criteria:
list:work and tag:foo
and when I add a task on this page it is tagged with foo and added to the work list.
However, when I get the non-foo items using a smart list with the following criteria:
list:work and not tag:foo
The tasks added on this page don't get put in the work list.
I appreciate that this is a more complicated search but it still only uses "and" and avoids "or" so it should be unambiguous. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
list:work and tag:foo
and when I add a task on this page it is tagged with foo and added to the work list.
However, when I get the non-foo items using a smart list with the following criteria:
list:work and not tag:foo
The tasks added on this page don't get put in the work list.
I appreciate that this is a more complicated search but it still only uses "and" and avoids "or" so it should be unambiguous. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Copied from elsewhere on this forum:
When you add tasks to a smart list, RTM tries to copy the meta information. In order for this to work, all the smart list criteria must be un-ambiguous (see more here: www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/search/advanced.rtm)
All these are un-ambiguous:
list:
priority:
status:
tag:
location:
due:
completed:
added:
timeEstimate:
postponed:
as long as you avoid NOT and OR. Also avoid ">" and "<" in time estimates, priorities and postponed.
The rest results in ambiguous searches:
dueBefore:
dueAfter:
dueWithin:
completedBefore:
completedAfter:
completedWithin:
addedBefore:
addedAfter:
addedWithin:
Some meta info is set indirectly:
tagContains:
isTagged:
locatedWithin:
isLocated:
isRepeating:
noteContains:
hasNotes:
Some you can't set yourself:
isShared:
sharedWith:
isReceived:
to:
from:
Hope that helps!
When you add tasks to a smart list, RTM tries to copy the meta information. In order for this to work, all the smart list criteria must be un-ambiguous (see more here: www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/search/advanced.rtm)
All these are un-ambiguous:
list:
priority:
status:
tag:
location:
due:
completed:
added:
timeEstimate:
postponed:
as long as you avoid NOT and OR. Also avoid ">" and "<" in time estimates, priorities and postponed.
The rest results in ambiguous searches:
dueBefore:
dueAfter:
dueWithin:
completedBefore:
completedAfter:
completedWithin:
addedBefore:
addedAfter:
addedWithin:
Some meta info is set indirectly:
tagContains:
isTagged:
locatedWithin:
isLocated:
isRepeating:
noteContains:
hasNotes:
Some you can't set yourself:
isShared:
sharedWith:
isReceived:
to:
from:
Hope that helps!
ashirley says:
thanks for this info.
Looks like I can't do what I wanted which is a shame.
Looks like I can't do what I wanted which is a shame.