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Dragging and reordering tasks, scenes, profiles, and actions is buggy and also hard to tell where it will land

I made a short video to illustrate the problems.  Please view it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z86c_crDCyk

There are two problems with dragging and dropping items:

1. Dragging and dropping an item between two other items SHOULD place it between them.  But it does not.  It doesn't work properly.  It often either doesn't register any change in position, or it puts the item in the wrong place altogether.  Here is another video demonstrating the problem; in this one, the dragging doesn't do ANYTHING for the first few attempts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKYqYJBBMy4

2. There should really be some UI to indicate where a dragged item will land, similar to this: https://i.imgtc.com/PKYFbEb.gif

Currently the app already does this in some places.  For example, dragging a task over the garbage bin before dropping it will highlight the garbage bin icon, and dragging it over a project will highlight the project.  These are great!  They show the user where the item will land when they release their finger.

Unfortunately there is no visual indication of where an item will be dropped among a list when you drag and drop to reorder it.  This is especially problematic when dragging actions within a task, since tasks can involve many actions. Nested "if" "else" "end if" etc. statements in particular can be very confusing to get out of place.

Both of these problems exist while rearranging these items:

-Tasks

-Actions within a task

-Profiles

-Scenes

Thank you Joao!

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P

This is badly needed. Even a simple horizontal bar between items showing where dragged item will land would help immensely, especially that there is no undo action (which would be really useful too).

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V

Be sure to upvote for an Undo button: https://tasker.helprace.com/i101-undo-button. Thanks.

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Z

It's incredible, it's really hard-to-impossible to reorder things, how can people not get tired of this after a couple of minutes!?

I'm in the very same situation as the video

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HI

Once you realise you need to drop it on top of the action you want it to go above, your life will be much easier! Don't try to put it in between actions, just put it fully over one action and you'll see it'll always go above it, except when it's the last action, then it will go below. It's just like using the copy and paste functionality, paste will paste above the selected action. 100% agree the UI could be much better on this front, but once you realise it actually behaves consistently it's not much of a problem.

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