There's a pie slice in the Actual Pie with no completed tasks

Article ID: 000049

Problem:

How can a top level section of my outline appear in the Actual pie chart when there are no checked tasks in it?



Solution:

The actual pie chart accumulates credit for all the tasks that were checked off in that section of the outline, not just the tasks that are currently checked off. There are a couple of different reasons that you might have credit in the actual pie chart when no tasks are checked off:

You may have a repeating task that has been checked off once, but has unchecked itself and is waiting to be checked off again. You get additional credit each time you complete a repeating task.

You may have deleted or purged a completed task from that section of your outline. When you delete or purge a task, any credit you received for completing that task is transferred to the task's parent.

As you continue to use Life Balance, the accumulated credit for older tasks will gradually go away. Life Balance automatically decreases the credit for tasks the longer ago they were completed. As you continue to check off tasks in other sections of your outline, the credit for these new tasks will gradually replace the archived credit for the older tasks in the actual pie chart. You can read more about the gradual decrease in accumulated credit in these sections of the Advice Book:

http://www.llamagraphics.com/resources/documentation/windows/Balance.html

http://www.llamagraphics.com/resources/documentation/windows/Preferences.html


If you want to delete the credit for a task when you delete the task, move the task to the top level of your outline before you delete it. Since there will be no parent task for Life Balance to transfer the credit to, the credit will simply go away.
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