Re: recursive todo/checkbox statistics

From: Alexander <alejck@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: recursive todo/checkbox statistics
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 08:11:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e177a690905210511x1be7e848rcd8bdc2fc4f37072@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A6ACF09-EEFE-4056-9C61-129CA83EC974@gmail.com>

Ah.

My bad. Of course that's not how to set the property.

#+PROPERTY: COOKIE_DATA recursive

works great.

Alexander

On 5/21/09, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On May 20, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Alexander wrote:
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> It works great. However, I can't get it to work on a per-file basis,
>> ie with:
>> #+COOKIE_DATA: recursive
>
> What makes you think this should work?
>
> But:  This is a property which is inherited, so I think
>
> #+PROPERTY: COOKIE_DATA recursive
>
> might do the trick (untested).
>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>> It works fine for my purposes - I just set it on a per-tree basis, but
>> I don't know if this is desired behavior or not.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>>
>> On 5/20/09, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>> in the latest git version you can do
>>>
>>> (setq org-hierarchical-todo-statistics nil)
>>>
>>> Or, if you want this only for specific trees, you can
>>> set a property[1]
>>>
>>> :COOKIE_DATA: todo recursive
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> - Carsten
>>>
>>> [1] The "todo" part in the property is unnecessary if the
>>>     entry does not have checkboxes
>>>
>>> On May 19, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've now switched to following the development version because
>>>> several
>>>> things that I've wanted have been implemented in the short time I've
>>>> been using org-mode already! And I was impressed with orgmode at the
>>>> outset...
>>>>
>>>> I tried version 6.26trans, and the hierarchical checkbox statistics
>>>> works as expected. But I can't get the same behavior for TODO's. I
>>>> just wanted to check that this is correct - that I'm not doing
>>>> something wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I should explain more what I use org-mode for in this case to
>>>> make things clearer. I use it to keep track of the readings I have
>>>> to
>>>> do for a qualifying exam. I categorize the readings according to
>>>> topic, and then track the progress of each reading as a TODO. The
>>>> reason I want to be able to check the global number of readings is
>>>> to
>>>> make sure that I'm keeping the right pace. The list is pretty long
>>>> (223 entries in ~20 topics), so it's cumbersome to do by hand.
>>>>
>>>> This is a better representation of the file I use:
>>>>
>>>> * readings [0/0]
>>>> :PROPERTIES:
>>>> :COOKIE_DATA: todo
>>>> :END:
>>>> ** topic a
>>>> *** TODO book 1
>>>> *** TODO book 2
>>>> ** topic b
>>>> *** TODO article 1
>>>> *** TODO article 2
>>>> ** topic c
>>>> *** TODO book 1
>>>> *** TODO article 2
>>>>
>>>> So is it possible to have the cookie at the top count the TODO's at
>>>> the lower levels?
>>>>
>>>> If not, it's not a big problem really - I can count them reasonably
>>>> using grep and wc, but it just seems like a combination of
>>>> hierarchical-checkbox-statistics and COOKIE_DATA: todo would do it?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Alexander
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/19/09, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> We have had the same discussion recently about checkboxes,
>>>>> and added a variable org-hierarchical-checkbox-statistics.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, my personal view is that the outline hierarchy is
>>>>> different, because if you are organizing tasks into a hierarchy,
>>>>> so it does not make sense to add TODO's on different levels.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Carsten
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 19, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Alexander wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Forgive me if there is an obvious way to do this that I haven't
>>>>>> found.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there an easy way to calculate the total number of  tasks for a
>>>>>> file or a subtree?
>>>>>> For example, if the checkbox/todo progress cookie would calculate
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> number of checkboxes/todos recursively for a subtree.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> so that this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * TODO heading 1 [1/3]
>>>>>> ** DONE task A
>>>>>> ** TODO task B
>>>>>> ** TODO task C
>>>>>> *** TODO task C1
>>>>>> *** TODO task C2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> would be this instead:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * TODO heading 1 [1/5]
>>>>>> ** DONE task A
>>>>>> ** TODO task B
>>>>>> ** TODO task C
>>>>>> *** TODO task C1
>>>>>> *** TODO task C2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would be fine with any other solution as well, it was just
>>>>>> that it
>>>>>> seems closest to the checkbox/todo functionality.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks you,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alexander
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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