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Exclude the single occurrences of recurring tasks from a task report

Hi,
we have created a report based on the tasks of a project. The project has some recurring tasks.
Is there a way we can exclude the single occurrences of these recurring tasks (those with the circle-arrow symbol on the task icon) from that report?
Thanks a lot for your help!

Christoph Knuettel Answered

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Christoph,

Unfortunately, Recurring Tasks ID are the same as regular Tasks so you cannot easily exclude them. You can try using Task Name if there is a specific naming convention or create a custom field that would specify it as a Recurring Task (RT) and you can filter out those Tasks.

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Hi Boris,
thanks for your answer. It sparked an idea with me:
If I include the "Parent" in the "Include related data" option of the report, I would add a filter "<Task>.<Parent>.ID Does Not Contain RT-".
That should exclude all tasks having a recurring task as parent.
The report seems to show the result I expected.
Could you think of any problems this solution could cause?
Thanks a lot for your help!

Christoph Knuettel 0 votes
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Christoph,

So long as you do not have any Projects that you do want to include that may contain RT-, I do not see any problems with the solution.

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