Re: [O] Subtasks are blocked in todo-items of ordered projects. Bug?

[Bernt Hansen]

Marcel van der Boom <address@hidden> writes:

> On ma 20-jun-2011 19:37
> Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> Should the first task in a subproject of a project
>>> having the ':ORDERED:' property set to true be blocked from marking
>>> 'DONE'? If so, why?  
>> 
>> I think the answer is yes it should be blocked because the entire tree
>> is blocked - the previous task needs to be DONE first.  When the
>> subtree is unblocked you can then complete the first task in the
>> subtree.
>
> Ok, to get the behaviour I want, I could remove the 'TODO' keyword
> from the subproject. 
>
> That will allow me to work on the subitems in parallel.  Obvious
> disadvantage is that the subproject as such can only have a
> 'count' or 'percentage' but not a 'state' and thus cannot be tracked
> anymore.
>
> Any other suggestions for a way to work on subitems in parallel with the
> 'main tasks'?  I'll spent some time digging if the wanted
> behaviour could be formulated as an option to set without disturbing
> the default behaviour. 

You can work on things in parallel - you just can't mark them as
completed.  I clock in time on tasks I work on which changes TODO to
STARTED and there is no restriction (that I'm aware of) on doing this.

You can also force the task state to DONE with a triple prefix (C-u C-u
C-u C-c C-t d) which will ignore the blocking rules for this state
change.

HTH,
-- 
Bernt