Hi Bastien,
On 08/04/2015 08:01 PM, Bastien Guerry wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> org-collector works as expected using
>>
>> GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
>> of 2015-03-07 on binet, modified by Debian
>> Org: 8.2.10 release_8.2.10
>>
>> but fails if
>>
>> GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
>> of 2015-03-07 on binet, modified by Debian
>> Org: 8.3beta release_8.3beta-1030-g65bbb1
> Can you be more specific on the kind of failure do you have?
>
To start off -

Linux Mint Mate 17.1

GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7) of 
2014-03-07 on lamiak, modified by Debian

Org-mode version 8.3.1 (release_8.3.1-1-gb5f5d6.dirty @ 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)

If I copy the code blocks that are in Eric's explanation at

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html

into my org-collector-example.org file and then evaluate (execute?) the 
src blocks the results are

#+BEGIN: propview :id "december" :conds ((string= spendtype "food")) 
:cols (ITEM amount)
| ITEM | amount |
|------+--------|
|------+--------|
|      |        |
#+END:

#+BEGIN: propview :cols (ITEM (+ 400 amount)) :scope tree :match "example"
| ITEM                                  | (+ 400 amount) |
|---------------------------------------+----------------|
| "** December Spending"                |              0 |
| "*** Week One"                        |              0 |
| "**** Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]" |              0 |
| "**** Athletic club [2008-12-02 Tue]" |              0 |
| "*** Week Two"                        |              0 |
| "**** Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]"    |              0 |
|---------------------------------------+----------------|
|                                       |                |
#+END:

This happens both in Lint mate 17.1 environment as well as in terminal 
if simply load emacs, i.e. click on the icon, call emacs in the command 
line, etc.

On the other hand if I go to a terminal and load emacs -q and then load 
org-collector.org I get the expected results, i.e.

#+BEGIN: propview :id "december" :conds ((string= spendtype "food")) 
:cols (ITEM amount)
| ITEM                             | amount |
|----------------------------------+--------|
| "Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]" |  56.77 |
| "Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]"    |  30.67 |
|----------------------------------+--------|
|                                  |        |
#+END:

#+BEGIN: propview :cols (ITEM (+ 400 amount)) :scope tree :match "example"
| ITEM                             | (+ 400 amount) |
|----------------------------------+----------------|
| "December Spending"              |              0 |
| "Week One"                       |              0 |
| "Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]" |         456.77 |
| "Athletic club [2008-12-02 Tue]" |          475.0 |
| "Week Two"                       |              0 |
| "Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]"    |         430.67 |
|----------------------------------+----------------|
|                                  |                |
#+END:

Just in case I attach a copy of my init file which is a mess.

Also, version 8.2.10 appears to have no problem.

Charlie