From: Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Showing remaining time in agenda mode
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:31:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6E33C5.6080702@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k49d3fb0.fsf@norang.ca>
On 09/12/2011 06:18 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> On 09/12/2011 01:14 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>> Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have been using Org-Mode with great success over the last year (or
>>>> so). There is a number of items that I need to handle, and I am
>>>> reading through the code to try to figure out how to do the various
>>>> items. However, recently I switched to using 7.7, which disabled a
>>>> feature I use (but it seems to just be a matter of setting it up
>>>> again) but also seem to have a lot of additions that I need.
>>>>
>>>> Beginning of each week, I plan the coming week using the agenda mode
>>>> to sort out tasks over the week. To do this efficiently, I have been
>>>> looking at Effort for each task and the summary for the day, and when
>>>> the default column view for the agenda showed Effort and Clock, this
>>>> worked quite well if you manage to complete the tasks during a week.
>>>> However, quite often I run across tasks that I cannot easily split
>>>> into smaller tasks and which take more than a week to complete (even
>>>> though the tasks themselves might be small, I can just spend a few
>>>> hours each week on them), which forces me to make the math in the head
>>>> to distribute the right amount for each day.
>>>>
>>>> Now, the default column view changed with 7.7, so I have no idea on
>>>> how to set up the agenda column view to show the following:
>>>>
>>>> * Each "task line" should show Item, Effort, Clock, and Clock - Effort
>>>> * Each "day line" should show the summary of (at least) the Effort
>>>> and the Clock - Effort
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know how to set this up, or do I need to go digging the code?
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Mats Kindahl
>>> Hi Mats,
>>>
>>> Try customizing org-columns-default-format.
>> Thanks Bernt,
>>
>> But how to define different formats for tasks and days and how to
>> define the format for "Clock - Effort"?
> Hi Mats,
>
> I'm not sure what you need to put in for these requirements. I'm not
> sure if column mode can calculate Clock - Effort for you automatically
> (but maybe it can with some fancy extra table formula).
>
> I only use column view in a fairly basic mode - showing item, estimate,
> and clock time with the following setting.
>
> (setq org-columns-default-format "%80ITEM(Task) %10Effort(Estimated Effort){:} %10CLOCKSUM")
Thanks Bernt,
I'll try the format you suggest and see how it handles the "day rows".
I tried another format involving some other fields, but this caused it
to not show the day summaries.
For how to fix the "Effort - Clock", I guess I have to go into the
code and see what I can do to tweak it.
Best wishes,
Mats Kindahl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-12 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-12 7:34 Showing remaining time in agenda mode Mats Kindahl
2011-09-12 11:14 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-09-12 12:02 ` Mats Kindahl
2011-09-12 16:18 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-09-12 16:31 ` Mats Kindahl [this message]
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