Hi All,
I thought of another workaround to overcome the inability to hide or archive sections. The idea is to create a second project which is a filtered view of the first project without the unwanted empty sections.
Example as follows:
Let’s assume you have a project (Work) containing a number of sections and tasks for which some of the sections contain tasks that are all completed.
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Create a new project called Work Filtered and create only the same sections in Work Filtered that you wish to have displayed (typically the sections containing at least one open task in Work). There’s probably an automated way to do this by duplicating the project and deleting all the tasks or saving Work as a template and creating Work Filtered from that, in both cases deleting only the sections from Work Filtered that you don’t want to be displayed.
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Switch to Work Project and set the view to display incomplete tasks only.
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Work through each open task in the Work project and add a second project (Tab+P), selecting Work Filtered and the relevant section from the drop-down menu.
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Viewing the same tasks from the Work Filtered project now displays on the sections of interest since only a subset of the Work tasks are also assigned to the Work Filtered project.
- When adding new tasks, always be sure to add them to both projects
- When completing a task, remember also to remove it from the Work Filtered project.
- If all tasks under a particular section in have been closed, simply delete the section from the Work Filtered project. This won’t affect the sections in the Work Project since the sections are specific to each project but the tasks in in this case are members of both.
Hope this helps,
Robin