From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carson Chittom Subject: Request for advice Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:15:13 -0600 Message-ID: <4p4nkbotlq.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdOm7-0003Zf-Ni for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:16:57 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdOm6-0000N8-HM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:16:47 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdOm6-0000Mv-A3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:16:46 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdOmB-0005ZN-Aj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:16:51 +0100 Received: from net23h254.itsd.state.ms.us ([205.144.238.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:16:51 +0100 Received: from carson by net23h254.itsd.state.ms.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:16:51 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I don't want to duplicate a bunch of effort if this is already a solved problem, so I'd like some advice, if anybody is or has been in a similar situation. Previously, I worked in a situation where I set my own schedule, and I used Org to keep track. Beginning next month, I will be working in place where there will be quite a few meetings (several of them regularly-scheduled status-type ones, but others are ad hoc) and I'll need to coordinate my schedule with 15-20 other employees. They currently use Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendaring to coordinate. But I'd like to continue to use Org (I have no authority over others' software). What I had originally envisioned was: 1. Keep my own schedule in Org. 2. Friday afternoons, export next week's agenda as a .ics file and import it into Outlook, so that others who need to can see my free/busy times. A quick test showed me that if I did my org files as is, I would end up with multiple items in Outlook of my regularly-scheduled meetings (most are weekly, but there are also several monthly, biannual, etc).[1] In addition, but less pressingly, I have a few items whose date is determined by a sexp, and so aren't exported (which as I understand it is the fault of icalender.el, not Org). I also can't really do exports of any more than a week, since even the regular meetings could conceivably change, which, again, would give me (in this case, wrong) duplicates to clean up. Several ideas occurred to me: 1. Add all the regular meetings to Outlook manually. In Org, give them all a particular tag, and configure the agenda export to export everything except that tag. In the event that one changes, edit both in Outlook and Org. 2. On Fridays before I export, create new instances of all the regular meetings (i.e., so that at export-time, the meetings beyond the next week don't exist in Org). 3. Give up. Just keep it in Outlook. Can anybody speak to what the best way to do what I want is, with the least amount of (ongoing) effort? Any gotchas I should look out for? [1] To be clear, I mean something in the form: * Meeting On Stuff <2012-11-26 Mon 09:00-09:30 +1w>