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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: agenda column view and/or location property visible in normal view
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:31:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761ymnd9h.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761ys1nc0.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Thu, 9 May 2013 11:04:15 +0100")

Hi Eric,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> due to my increasing use of MobileOrg and, as a result, the
> synchronisation it provides with Google's calendar, I am finding that
> using the :LOCATION: property in an appointment in org is quite
> useful.  However, most of the time I use org's agenda view to see my
> appointments.  I have a few questions, if I may:
>
> 1. I can use column view in the agenda to see specific
>      properties.  However, column view doesn't work well with the time
>      grid.  Is it possible to include the time information, as shown in
>      the normal agenda view, in a column view?  I currentlly have
>
>      : (setq org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%5TODO %40ITEM %LOCATION %TAGS")
>
>      which works quite well except for the absence of time
>      information.

Maybe you can use %TIMESTAMP for the time?

> 2. Can the column view be customised to get rid of the | characters?
>      They make sense sometimes but I find them ugly in my agenda view.
>
> 3. alternatively, can one customise the line for the agenda view to
>      include specific properties (i.e. LOCATION in my case)?  Probably
>      not... if not, it would be nice to have a fully customisable
>      org-agenda-line-format variable similar to what gnus provides for
>      summary lines, group lines, etc.  Consider this a feature request
>      for org 9.0.  ;-)

See `org-agenda-prefix-format' -- maybe you can play with the %(exp)
construct and try to retrieve infos with `org-entry-get' (which see.)

Not tested...

> As usual, none of the above is critical in any sense!  Just me finding
> yet more reasons to avoid getting real work done... ;-)

Tested ;)

-- 
 Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-14  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-09 10:04 agenda column view and/or location property visible in normal view Eric S Fraga
2013-05-14  8:31 ` Bastien [this message]
2013-05-17  7:55   ` Eric S Fraga

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