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chrishoughton0 says:
Hi

I'm trying to set up a fairly advanced view of my tasks using a Smart List.

Basically I want to create a list of tasks that meet the following criteria:

1. Is included on the list "@Actions" OR is a subtask in the list "@Projects"

2. Is NOT included in the list "Checklists"

3. Has no due date OR is due within 1 week of today

I can get 1 and 2 working with the query:

isSubtask:true NOT list:Checklists OR list:@Actions

But when I try and add the criteria for the due dates it all goes wrong.

Any advice as to how to fix this?

Thanks

Chris
Posted at 11:36am on May 4, 2016
raymond.bergmark Power Poster says:
Chris: Try using "(" and ")" to get the correct priority between criteria.
Also, it's important to spell exactly as expected, including uppercase letters.
Maybe you could try by testing the criteria for due dates first?
Posted 8 years ago
(closed account) says:
Parentheses are everything!

list: "@Actions" OR (list:"@Projects" isSubtask:true) (due:never OR dueWithin:"one week of today")

Can't see any reason to mention the @Checklists list

Hope this works for you!

(Consider not using the @ symbol as part of a list name because RTM uses that as the beginning character to identify a Location parameter. )
Posted 8 years ago
chrishoughton0 says:
Thanks to you both!

I've had some success with this query (adapted from azclaire's suggestion above):

list: "@Actions" (due:never OR due:"today") OR (list:"@Projects" isSubtask:true) (due:never OR due:"today")

That seems to work a treat! Thanks for the guidance.

Point noted re @ usage - I'll consider renaming the lists accordingly...

Cheers

Chris

Posted 8 years ago
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