From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: Item task_id not being used in taskjuggler export & tj prefixing Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:01:54 +0200 Message-ID: <877gkl29m5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87eheutjpz.fsf@gmail.com> <876206th04.fsf@gmail.com> <87wqsmryt0.fsf@gmail.com> <5159F480.3030100@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36163) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMmnp-0000e2-Nt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:02:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMmni-0008N9-Ar for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:02:09 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:59523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMmni-0008My-2b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:02:02 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id z12so2465124wgg.11 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:02:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (John Hendy's message of "Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:53:28 -0500") 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@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode , buddy.butterfly@web.de John Hendy writes: > I agree and would prefer this. Especially since folks wanting to > export and being allowed to access tj functionality through drawers > are probably going to anticipate using actual tj syntax in those > drawers. Since tj only forces unique global ids (one can have M.T8, > T.T8, etc.), this would solve the issue of ambiguity should one decide > to use non-globally unique task ids. In fact, many projects may very > well use a lot of repetitive tasks with the same properties. > > In mine, I have some tasks regarding shipping products to various > countries. This way I could just have a bunch of country-specific > headlines like: > > * Country > ** Ship product > > * Country 2 > ** Ship product > > And could give all the ** Ship... tasks the same id since their > Country parent would make it globally unique. You can already do so. IDs only have to be unique within the task siblings. > For now, I'm just happy to have functionality restored so I can use > Org and not hand-edit the files after exporting :) I have a potential > IRC date with Christian Egli sometime this week... perhaps you should > join and add your feedback? One of my other points of input would be > that something like C-c l (Org store link at point) would be great. > Unique ids could be inserted as depends with some simple key strokes > and I would't have to use numbered IDs at all. They'd stay with the > tasks no matter where I moved them. > > For that... I'd actually prefer *not* to have to explicitly name the > parent since they could move wherever I put them with no consequence. You don't have to name parents either. You only need to name tasks that will be used as a dependency. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou