RE: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

From: "Varnit Suri" <vsuri@Brocade.COM>
To: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: RE: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:41:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57AC2FA1761300418C7AB8F3EA493C9702D2400D@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7cdbe30904192123r71f0b2eej7d4a13488c3f7031@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks. I agree this is prolly a better approach.

I did get things to work (see code in post-script) a bit using your suggestion and:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Block-agenda.html#Block-agenda 
http://orgmode.org/manual/Storing-searches.html#Storing-searches 

But maybe I wasn't clear enough in describing what I 'm trying to do. 

I 'd like to parse the weekly Agenda (C-c a a) to show only those items that meet the specified criteria (eg, certain tags, todo-tags, or properties). The advantage is that that shows the relevant items, will complete details of dates, etc. Its sort of running a grep on the weekly Agenda output.

Any ideas are appreciated.

V.

PS: The two custom searches that I coded up are:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
     '(("h" "Agenda for context Home"
	 ((agenda "")
	  (tags "HOME")))))

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
     '(("h" "Agenda for context Home" agenda (tags "HOME"))))

-----Original Message-----
From: Manish [mailto:mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:24 PM
To: Varnit Suri
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

FWIW, I use tags to  mark contexts and filtering on tags is really
really fast and flexible.

-- 
Manish

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Varnit Suri <vsuri@brocade.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the PROPERTY keyword to identify contexts (in the GTD
> approach). So here's a sample of what I do:
>
> * Online
>  :PROPERTIES:
>  :CATEGORY: Computer
>  :END:
> ** TODO Call/reply to A
> ** TODO Defrag work PC
>
> The Agenda view that I see is below (Home, Computer, Work are PROPERTY
> tags).
>
> What I 'd like to do is:
> 1. View tasks with only a specified PROPERTY tag.
> 2. View the main task (if this task is a sub-task) in the Agenda view.
>
> So in the above example, I 'm trying to see something like.
>
> Computer: Online [current output]
>
> Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Current output:
>
> Week-agenda (W16-W17):
> Sunday     19 April 2009
>  Home:       Sched. 2x:  TODO ETrade debit card
>  Home:       In -24 d.:  TODO Respond to DMV Ticket
>  Computer:     Sched. 2x:  TODO Incorporate category tags
>  Work:     Scheduled:  TODO Defrag work PC
>
>
>
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