Comments on: Alias

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:22:10 +0000

Hi Marco — You can direct a link keyword that directs an activity to a particular map based on a string that is also a resource. I do that for my children's names. I also did it for my direct reports but I eventually found I often wanted tasks to go to project specific maps so changed their keywords to "firstnamemap" which would be aliased as [firstnamemap].

I don't think resource->specific map would be a common enough practice to add complexity to the code/syntax for it.

By: Marco van Laerhoven

Marco van Laerhoven — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:38:43 +0000

Is it possible - or an idea - to have a task sent to a certain map when choosing a specific resource? I have several resroucse that I only work with on specific projects (i.e. maps). I could create an alias for each of the resources, but that would require me to add the resource code twice …

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:53:57 +0000

Whoops — looks like there was a bug in the code. I haven't been using that option be default so hadn't seen it creep in. It wasn't working in all cases in MindReader either. A corrected version of mindreaderNLP.mmbas is uploaded on the wiki. Thanks for catching it and pointing it out.

By: cfitts

cfitts — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:40:22 +0000

Thanks, that works.
However, the Outlinker macro doesn't seem to pick up that option of the defaultowner. The "owner" comes up blank when adding tasks through Outlinker.

By the way, you've created a great tool. I probably would not have purchased GyroQ and ResultsManager had I not discovered MindReader. To me, your efforts are an essential part of the overall productivity improvement package.

Thanks for your powerful contribution!

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:24:53 +0000

toggle to m tag and type:

setoption:defaultownerme:1
setoption:me:cfitts (or whatever your default name is)

By: cfitts

cfitts — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:43:34 +0000

I can't seem to get the "Owner" resource to default to my name when the data is parsed without a specific resource being mentioned. Am I overlooking something?

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:46:42 +0000

Wow — looks like that has been broken for quite awhile. Goes to show I haven't been using that feature lately. I tend to use the category keywords. I uploaded a corrected version (not in AO-Pack yet). Thanks for the catch.

By: cfitts

cfitts — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:40:22 +0000

Is it my imagination, or has this latest change caused the MindReader parsing to skip entering the ~category information into the Category field when you "Edit Activity" in ResultsManager? I can see the ~category in the Text Markers, but not in the Category field when in "Edit Activity" mode.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:15:43 +0000

I've been meaning to comment on this - perfect! I love it and started using it as soon as it showed up in the code. This meets the need I mentioned and more. Thank you!