# V3 scheduling and parent deck options **URL:** \ **Category:** Scheduling\ **Created:** [May 3, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/v3-scheduling-and-parent-deck-options/19697 "2022-05-03T08:23:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![asparagus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@asparagus](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/asparagus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/v3-scheduling-and-parent-deck-options/19697/1 "2022-05-03T08:23:36Z")
Recently tried the V3 scheduler and really like a lot of the changes to more scheduling options. However, I started to think about my option groups. Most of my Anki are vocab words mined from books. Here’s how my deck tree looks like: - Vocab (DEFAULT) - Book Series X (DEFAULT) - Book, Series X, Vol 1 (MY OPTION GROUP) - Book, Series X, Vol 2 (MY OPTION GROUP) - Book Asdf (MY OPTION GROUP) - Writing (DEFAULT2) - Level 3 (OPTION GROUP 2) - … Basically the Default option group just acts as a dummy option group, since it has to have something. But I can’t give everything my actual options group, because then I would not get the two new cards a day from each deck that I specified (because the root deck max new cards as 2 would limit it). It’s a bit weird but I don’t know if there’s any other way. In addition, I needed to create now another dummy DEFAULT2, because I want the display order for new cards to be random there. But all the other deck options come from subdecks? Talk about confusing! I also want to just keep everything collapsed and click Vocab and study everything. I have dozens of decks so going through them individually is not an option. But now with V3 the ordering comes from the deck you click instead of globally. It feels a bit unintuitive I have to change my DUMMY deck options instead of my “actual options” I’m a bit scared/confused how to know which options come from the deck and which from the subdeck. I hope nothing else but the display order options, otherwise it will majorly mess up the intervals? I don’t really see why everything is not determined by the subdeck options? What if I want to some subdecks words to come randomly and some in order? Clickin the root deck forces it’s own behaviour on everything… ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/v3-scheduling-and-parent-deck-options/19697/2 "2022-05-04T08:50:48Z")
Options are taken from each card’s deck where it makes sense to do so, but for options that affect how cards are gathered/sorted as a whole, options can be taken from only one place. Anki uses the deck you click on in that case, so you can do things like have a separate display order for your writing deck. It has been [suggested](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/set-daily-limits-separately-from-the-other-deck-options/17511) that daily limits be adjustable separately from deck options, and such a change may come in the future. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/v3-scheduling-and-parent-deck-options/19697/3 "2023-05-01T05:53:10Z")
Closed on May 1, 2023, 5:53am UTC