Flagging all items in a group adds group to the Flagged coun

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Hello, I have a Smart Group that looks for anything flagged.

I marked three items as Flagged, which happens to be all 3 items in a group, and the group was automatically marked as Flagged. My Smart Group count went from 3 to 5.

I changed the Smart Group to filter out Groups, but still, I thought this was weird. I’m guessing it’s a feature, to mark the whole group as flagged when all its contents are flagged, but there may be some conditions where that’s not ideal?

Thanks.

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That’s right. Groups are automatically flagged if all items inside the group are flagged. That’s e.g. useful to easily spot groups containing flagged items.

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Ok then, thanks for the clarification.

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Yes, concerning a group - that is the state of the group: no flagged items, all flagged items, or a mix (a dash showing an intermediate state).