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From: Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>
To: Richard Parsons <richard.lee.parsons@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merge Properties into Template; [babel]
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:40:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mxdetnby.fsf@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB+=1LF4uFw4BFfZXa4S6-dma4DOCi5H-7j571ZcLPOVBt_thg@mail.gmail.com> (Richard Parsons's message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:35:49 +0100")

Richard Parsons <richard.lee.parsons@gmail.com> writes:

 Hi Richard,
>
> I have a node with properties and I would like to merge that data into
> a template.  For example:
>
> * Dogs
> ** Fido
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :BREED:    West Highland Terrier
>   :COLOR:    White
>   :AGE:      2
>   :END:
> * Templates
> ** Dog Template
> Your dog, called [HEADLINE], is a [COLOR] [BREED], who is [AGE] years old.
>
> I want to merge the item called "Fido" into the template called "Dog Template".
>
> Could someone point me to the right bit of the manual 

I think that the only way to extract the information of a property,
in org, is column view.[1]

However you may be able to use something like perl or awk to extract the info
and babel to use in the org file.

I'm a babel ignorant. CCed Eric Schulte for help ;-)

hth,
Giovanni

[1] But you'll end with this:
* DOGS
** Fido 
  :PROPERTIES:
  :ID: dog 
  :COLUMNS: %dog %ITEM %is %BREED %whos %AGE %old
  :dog: Your dog, called
  :is: , is a
  :BREED:    West Highland Terrier
  :COLOR:    White
  :whos: , who is
  :AGE:      2
  :old: years old.
  :END:
** Templates
*** Dog Template
Your dog, called [HEADLINE], is a [COLOR] [BREED], who is [AGE] years old.
*** Dog column
#+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id dog
| dog              | ITEM    | is     | BREED                 | whos     | AGE | old        |
|------------------+---------+--------+-----------------------+----------+-----+------------|
| Your dog, called | ** Fido | , is a | West Highland Terrier | , who is |   2 | years old. |
#+END

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-06 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06  9:35 Merge Properties into Template Richard Parsons
2011-10-06 10:40 ` Giovanni Ridolfi [this message]
2011-10-06 11:35 ` suvayu ali
2011-10-06 12:50 ` Christian Moe
2011-10-06 15:56   ` Richard Parsons
2011-10-06 20:52     ` Christian Moe
2011-10-07  7:04     ` Christian Moe

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