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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Thorsten <gruenderteam.berlin@googlemail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: date functions in org tables
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:02:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4548.1298671372@alphaville.usa.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Thorsten <gruenderteam.berlin@googlemail.com> of "Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:34:22 +0100." <86r5avlrxd.fsf@googlemail.com>

Thorsten <gruenderteam.berlin@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> is there something like a column formula in org that enables me to introduce a
> date in the first row and then automatically fills the other rows of
> that column with followup dates (+ 1 day or + 1 week i.e.)
> like this:
> 
> | date            | kg |
> |-----------------+----|
> | <2011-02-08 Di> | 86 |
> | <2011-02-09 Mi> | 85 |
> |     etc.        |    |
>  
> thanks for any hints

Interactively S-<RET> will insert a row with the next date (i.e. the + 1
day bit), but I don't know of a way to make it skip by larger
steps (i.e. the + 7 days bit).

With a table formula, you can skip by as much as you want:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Consecutive dates

| Date             | Weight |
|------------------+--------|
| <2011-02-25 Fri> |     71 |
| <2011-03-04 Fri> |        |
| <2011-03-11 Fri> |        |
| <2011-03-18 Fri> |        |
| <2011-03-25 Fri> |        |
#+TBLFM: @2$1=<2011-02-25 Fri>::$1=<@-1$1>+7
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

using a field formula to set the first entry and a column formula
to calculate the rest, but it just fills up pre-existing rows. IOW,
if you want a bigger table, you have to insert a number of empty
rows and then recalculate.

HTH,
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-25 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-25 21:34 date functions in org tables Thorsten
2011-02-25 22:02 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-02-25 22:19   ` Thorsten

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