From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Org spreadsheet formula range destination and per-cell placement for Lisp
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:23:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fvzj3kau.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGwjgEjq1FYKcUUU5H6oiYCzzphdMX++Db3rWLdw=qmaAk54WQ@mail.gmail.com
Paul,
Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> I am in the throes of setting up an Org mode spreadsheet for an
> invoicing/status/planning tool and came across this fabulous thread: *[O]
> org table calc and lisp for hh:mm
> timetable<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-03/msg00972.html>
> *at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-03/msg00972.htmlwhich
> provided me much of what I need. So thanks to all involved for that
> excellent piece of work.
>
> The one problem I am having trouble grasping is in how to use Emacs Lisp to
> generate a range of values automagically. I have no trouble with a single
> cell using Lisp and passing in a rectangular region to process or in
> setting up a region using the Org table/spreadsheet/calc support described
> in the various Google accessible documentation.
>
> What I am trying to do at a high level is setup a table with rows of
> actions spanning a start and stop time. Each action row has a bill-to
> category column. In the table, as part of a Lisp based formula, I want to
> process these action rows and build a list of "bill-to : total time"
> summary values and then place these summaries in a range in the table, so a
> fragment of the table might look like:
>
> ... | Client1 | Client2 | Commute | ...
> ... | 12.50 | 22.00 | 10.5 | ...
>
> where the numbers (hours) have been summed by filtering the task rows by
> clients. Hope that's clear.
>
> So there are essentially two issues for me: the first is understanding how
> to associate a range destination for a Lisp based formula result, which I
> think can be done, I just do not understand how to do it yet, and second,
> probably an enhancement request, is to figure out how to pass a list of
> cell addresses to a List form (along with other data) and have the form
> compute and store values to those cells. The latter would a sort of holy
> grail, at least for me.
I won't answer your post, but will present you what I'm doing, as I'm using
Org for billing my clients.
How I do is:
- Clock my time in the client file
- Generate a dynamic block for each client file
Quite easy. So, this is just to show you an alternative, in case you did
overlook that.
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
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