From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: Org spreadsheet formula range destination and per-cell placement for Lisp Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:23:05 +0100 Message-ID: <86fvzj3kau.fsf@somewhere.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: 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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org 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 > *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