thank you very very much for all your help!

The in-tray I had there already was one I dragged from the Map Parts tab - the RM In-Tray. I wonder if MM thinks it is a Floating Topic - it's not attached to the Central Main Topic. Is there a properties setting that would tell me if it's a floating topic or not?

Below it, it does say "Categories: In-tray*; Process," just like the one that was made - but it's definitely "prettier" with the little icon and the cream colored box…

The easiest solution would be to just attach it to the Main Topic - I've done that on another map and using some code from this post, I was able to have it put the action items in there. But I'd like to keep the In-tray on my Central map floating if possible.

{queue:'_queuefile_';
map:'Map Central';
temp: '_today_';
select: floatingtopic;
select: rm_categories:'In-tray*;Process';
create:floatingtopic:'In-tray';
rm_categories:'In-tray*;Process';
select:subtopic
select:label:'on_temp_';
create:subtopic:'_temp_'; label:'on_temp_';
new:subtopic:'_queueitem_';
complete:0;
hyperlink:'_queueitem_':auto;}

did you test it - does it work on your end?

For starters, here is a working version that populates items directly under the floating intray. This is just your code with the today stuff deleted:

{queue:'_queuefile_';
map:'Map Central';
select: floatingtopic;
select: rm_categories:'In-tray*;Process';
new:subtopic:'_queueitem_';
complete:0;
hyperlink:'_queueitem_':auto;}

Note that this assumes you have dragged an in-tray into the map from the "Map Parts" tab (so it has the right category attributes to select on).

If you want your new entry inserted underneath a date branch, you first need a select:subtopic command to select all the subtopics of the in-tray (which would be the date entries). You next use a select:'on_temp' command to select the entry with today's date if it exists.

The subsequent create:'_temp_' statement will create an entry only if the previous select command didn't find anything to select. After that your code is fine.

{queue:'_queuefile_';
map:'Map Central';
temp: '_today_';
select: floatingtopic;
select: rm_categories:'In-tray*;Process';
select:subtopic
select:label:'on_temp_';
create:subtopic:'_temp_'; label:'on_temp_';
new:subtopic:'_queueitem_';
complete:0;
hyperlink:'_queueitem_':auto;}

BTW: You were missing a colon after the select:label — it should be select:label:'on_temp'. Hope this helps. Working out what was wrong taught me a thing or two.

AO

{queue:'_queuefile_'; map:'Map Central';
temp: '_today_'; select: floatingtopic; select: rm_categories:'In-tray*;Process';
select:label'on_temp_';
new:subtopic:'_queueitem_'; complete:0;
hyperlink:'_queueitem_':auto;}

all i did was modify the default Action tag by taking out the create command and replacing it with the select floatingtopic.

since you know what you're doing - what am I doing wrong here?

map:'activityowner\blog.mmap'

Cheers,
Haico

Thanks,
Haico