Archieving only subtasks if the whole project is finished

[Ben]

Hi there,

is there any chance that subtasks that are done will only get archived if the whole project/task is finished? Any chance for myself to get this done?

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[jessegrosjean]

A custom script could certainly do this, but I don’t think there exists one yet. I did find this related (I think) thread:

Is there a script or other way to selectively archive tasks

Let me raise again the 2nd part of my recent question on archiving @done tasks. The “archive @done items” menu command works globally archiving all done tasks and adding project name/stripping @done tag depending on the preferences settings. I would like to selectively archive @done tasks (e.g. current selected task). In general for a given task with subtasks I like to keep track of which subtasks I’ve done (with notes) to follow progress until the whole task is done. In short I don’t want to a…

[Ben]

thanks - I’ll have a second look at this script. But as far as I understood it does the same as archive all from the menu - except that it does it only for marked tasks.

I’ll test how this behaves when I try to select projects.