emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed

* Listing todos which have other todos in the subtree in the agenda
@ 2010-08-13  8:10 Jan Böcker
  2010-08-13 16:10 ` David Maus
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jan Böcker @ 2010-08-13  8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Org Mode

I have a projects.org file with entries like this:

* PROJECT Find the answer to life, the universe and everything
* PROJECT World Domination
*** NEXT build Doomsday Device

(where PROJECT and NEXT are both defined as todo keywords.)

I'd like to define a custom agenda view to get a project list. I tried a
"TAGS search" for '+TODO="PROJECT"'. My problem is that the "World
Domination" project is not shown, because the todo is blocked by the
"build Doomsday Device" next action. I tried setting
`org-enforce-todo-dependencies' to nil in the local settings for the
agenda command, but that did not help.

Setting `org-todo-keywords' to '((sequence "PROJECT")) also did not help.

I'd appreciate any ideas on how to achieve a list of all my projects,
regardless of whether they have next actions defined or not.

(Simply looking at the projects.org file is not enough, as I plan to
make a block agenda which shows projects in groups which have specific
tags, i.e. active (untagged) projects first, then those tagged
SUSPENDED, then SOMEDAY, then MAYBE.)

Thanks in advance,
  Jan

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread

• * Re: Listing todos which have other todos in the subtree in the agenda
    2010-08-13  8:10 Listing todos which have other todos in the subtree in the agenda Jan Böcker
  @ 2010-08-13 16:10 ` David Maus
    2010-08-13 20:47   ` Jan Böcker
    0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
  From: David Maus @ 2010-08-13 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Jan Böcker; +Cc: Org Mode
  
  
  [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1307 bytes --]
  
  Jan Böcker wrote:
  >I have a projects.org file with entries like this:
  
  >* PROJECT Find the answer to life, the universe and everything
  >* PROJECT World Domination
  >*** NEXT build Doomsday Device
  
  >(where PROJECT and NEXT are both defined as todo keywords.)
  
  >I'd like to define a custom agenda view to get a project list. I tried a
  >"TAGS search" for '+TODO="PROJECT"'. My problem is that the "World
  >Domination" project is not shown, because the todo is blocked by the
  >"build Doomsday Device" next action. I tried setting
  >`org-enforce-todo-dependencies' to nil in the local settings for the
  >agenda command, but that did not help.
  
  >Setting `org-todo-keywords' to '((sequence "PROJECT")) also did not help.
  
  >I'd appreciate any ideas on how to achieve a list of all my projects,
  >regardless of whether they have next actions defined or not.
  
  Bernt's "Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!"
  (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html) might be a good starting point.
  Especially
  
   - 6 Custom agenda views -and-
  
   - 12.2 Project definition and finding stuck projects 
  
  A simple check in `bh/is-project-p' if the entry has the PROJECT
  keyword should do the job.
  
  HTH,
    -- David
  -- 
  OpenPGP... 0x99ADB83B5A4478E6
  Jabber.... dmjena@jabber.org
  Email..... dmaus@ictsoc.de
  
  [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 230 bytes --]
  
  [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 201 bytes --]
  
  _______________________________________________
  Emacs-orgmode mailing list
  Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
  Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
  http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
  
  ^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread

• • * Re: Listing todos which have other todos in the subtree in the agenda
      2010-08-13 16:10 ` David Maus
    @ 2010-08-13 20:47   ` Jan Böcker
      0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
    From: Jan Böcker @ 2010-08-13 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: David Maus; +Cc: Org Mode
    
    On 08/13/2010 06:10 PM, David Maus wrote:
    > Jan Böcker wrote:
    >> I have a projects.org file with entries like this:
    > 
    >> * PROJECT Find the answer to life, the universe and everything
    >> * PROJECT World Domination
    >> *** NEXT build Doomsday Device
    > 
    >> (where PROJECT and NEXT are both defined as todo keywords.)
    > 
    >> I'd like to define a custom agenda view to get a project list. I tried a
    >> "TAGS search" for '+TODO="PROJECT"'. My problem is that the "World
    >> Domination" project is not shown, because the todo is blocked by the
    >> "build Doomsday Device" next action. I tried setting
    >> `org-enforce-todo-dependencies' to nil in the local settings for the
    >> agenda command, but that did not help.
    > 
    >> Setting `org-todo-keywords' to '((sequence "PROJECT")) also did not help.
    > 
    >> I'd appreciate any ideas on how to achieve a list of all my projects,
    >> regardless of whether they have next actions defined or not.
    > 
    > Bernt's "Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!"
    > (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html) might be a good starting point.
    > Especially
    > 
    >  - 6 Custom agenda views -and-
    > 
    >  - 12.2 Project definition and finding stuck projects 
    > 
    > A simple check in `bh/is-project-p' if the entry has the PROJECT
    > keyword should do the job.
    > 
    > HTH,
    >   -- David
    
    Thanks for the pointer -- although experimenting with custom skip
    functions did not solve my problem, by reading Bernt's document I
    discovered speed keys :)
    
    It turned out the culprit was `org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks', which I
    had set to 'invisible soon after I started using Org-mode. Setting that
    to nil in the "Settings for the entire command set" of the block agenda
    view does what I want.
    
    And now that I know about custom skip functions, I can move stuck
    projects to their own section in the project list.
    
    ~ Jan
    
    ^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2010-08-13 20:48 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2010-08-13  8:10 Listing todos which have other todos in the subtree in the agenda Jan Böcker
2010-08-13 16:10 ` David Maus
2010-08-13 20:47   ` Jan Böcker

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).