Reverse Priority Topic is solved

[cgunhouse]

Is there a way to reverse the priorities? 1 - the highest and 10 - the lowest. That is the way most people perceive priority, they say this is the "First Priority"

Craig

[Djo]

No, I don't think so. You could made a request in the Suggestions section of the forum.

[abstr]

That is the way most people perceive priority

I think what you mean to say was 'this is the way I perceive priority' because in 17 years hardly anyone else has asked for this feature.

It would also massively complicate the code and potentially cause a lot of confusion between people sharing tasklists.

[cgunhouse]

It would not be too complicated, you just have to output the priority in reverse order. Internals would not have to change.

The code is:

iOutputPriority = (bReverse) ? abs(iPriority - 11) : iPriority ;

Where "bReverse" is a global boolean flag for reversing the order of priority.

Actually, "this is not the way I perceive priority', I can wrap my head around both ordering systems. I have had people ask me why I would put a priority "10" on an task that is first priority and a "9" on a second priority task and so on on a report (generated from ToDoList). They see it as "1"st priority is "1" and "2"nd Priority is "2" and so on. They just can't see the logic of reversing the order. This is one of those cases where a high values is not seen as having a greater significants.

Craig

[Djo]

I agree with the OP... First priority is 1, second priority 2, etc. (and priority 0 doesn't exist in this scheme). This is what I see around me too, and I must admit I would prefer too, seems more logical, intuitive for me equally.
Anyway, just a feedback.