emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TODO or checkboxes in org tables
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 21:33:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sia3ze2.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1A60895F-3208-44E8-8FC8-A1E62CE00BCE@axelkielhorn.de

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1328 bytes --]

>>> "AK" == Axel Kielhorn <org-mode@axelkielhorn.de> writes:

Hi Alex,

I am not sure my first answer made it, so I apologize for a possible
crossposting.

   > Hi Uwe,
   >> I have an orgtable with a lot of useful information, I would like to add
   >> a column either for TODOS or checkboxes but it seems not work any idea
   >> whether such an addon package exist or any change that such a feature
   >> will be implemented?

   > I use a different approach.
   > I store the information in a normal org structure with TODO keywords.
   > I hide the checkboxes (and other meta information) in a drawer.


I thought about this as well, but the table is an import form an excel
documente and contains a row of 70 different persons, so to transform
this to a normal org structure would require some work, I presume.

In any case, thanks for you example I will try it out. 
   > From this I generate a column view to present the information in a table.

   > You can generate different column views from the same data set.
   > I used the second version for years but recently discovered the :match argument.
   > If you mark the actual data as :noexport: only the table will be printed.

A last question, which the command to generate the table
org-insert-dblock:columnview ?

Greetings

Uwe 

[-- Attachment #2: smime.p7s --]
[-- Type: application/pkcs7-signature, Size: 5673 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-02 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-01 20:28 TODO or checkboxes in org tables Uwe Brauer
2020-05-02  8:46 ` Axel Kielhorn
2020-05-02 19:33   ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2020-05-03  7:05     ` Axel Kielhorn
2020-05-07 17:05       ` Uwe Brauer
2020-05-08  4:37         ` Axel Kielhorn
2020-05-08  9:21           ` Uwe Brauer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=878sia3ze2.fsf@mat.ucm.es \
    --to=oub@mat.ucm.es \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).