Re: How to use FILETAGS?

From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to use FILETAGS?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:08:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wsl22u2.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FBC54DAE-834B-42EB-B976-7179F864C865@uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Sat\, 18 Oct 2008 15\:16\:40 +0200")

Hi Carsten,

Would it be possible to filter the data that creates the agenda clock
table report by tags?  This would be useful to limit the report to a
specific project that spans multiple org files for instance.

Right now I do a monthly agenda report for everything and cut and paste
the result to get the details I need for a particular project - if I
could just limit the display to a specific tag and have the report only
include clock times for that tag then this would be much easier for me
to deal with.

e.g.

| Key              | Detail                                |
|------------------+---------------------------------------|
| C-c a a          | Go to agenda                          |
| m                | Display agenda for this month         |
| R                | Display clock report for everything   |
| / TAB projecttag | Limit display to specific project tag |

and have the resulting clock report only include the filtered tasks and
their clock times.

I would find this very useful but don't let me create new work for you
if it's not easy/fun :)

Thanks for org-mode!

Regards,
Bernt

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> Hi Manish,
>
> I very much like the idea to add an indicator to the agenda mode line,
> and will do that.
>
> You said that you can filter an already filtered  view.  This is only
> partially correct.  If you do that, it is not so that you will further
> filter down the current list.  Instead, a new filter will be applied
> to the original list.  At first I had it in fact implemented in a way
> that several filters could be used in a row, but John Wiegley (how
> asked for this feature) convinced me that the current convention is
> better.
>
> What this feature really does is saving you the definition of
> different agenda commands selecting for specific tasks.  Instead, you
> can now create one view and then filter it for different tags.
>
> We could implement filtering for several tags, but I am not sure if
> this will be really so useful.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Manish wrote:
>
>>  On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>> Manish writes:
>>>
>>>>  On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>>>  [snip]
>>>>> This works for me.  I added
>>>>>
>>>>> #+FILETAGS: :Personal:
>>>>>
>>>>> to the top of one of my org files, hit C-c C-c on the line to
>>>>> reinitialize and then match tags with Personal as the target with
>>>>>
>>>>> C-c a m Personal RET
>>>>>
>>>>> and it lists all of the tasks in my org file including top-level
>>>>> tasks.
>>>>> The tasks do now show :Personal: in the display but using T
>> on any tasks
>>>>> shows the tag is inherited.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hit T on a task 4 levels deep and it includes the Personal tag.
>>>>>
>>>>> It also works with
>>>>>
>>>>> #+FILETAGS: Personal
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Bernt.  It works this way for me as well.  I guess I should
>>>> be
>>>> able to mimic similar behaviour by restricting agenda to that
>>>> specific
>>>> buffer as well.
>>>>
>>>> But does it (task filtering based on tags using "/") work while you
>>>> are in agenda view?
>>>
>>> Yes this works for me.  / TAB <tagname> works even if tagname is
>>> not in
>>> org-tag-alist.  Some of my (new) FILETAGS are still in my org-tag- 
>>> alist
>>> so I can just filter with the quick-keys but for the ones that are
>>> not
>>> the / TAB <tagname> works fine.
>>>
>>> I tested this with C-a a t to show all my todo keyword tasks without
>>> scheduled dates and then used / to filter that list down to some
>>> specific FILETAG tagname.
>>
>> Finally, agenda filtering on tags works for me.  Unfortunately, I am
>> not sure if it was an update, tweak or some other tinkering that fixed
>> it but it works beautifully.  It is now one of my favourite features.
>> I did not expect but was pleasently surprised to find that it allowed
>> filtering an already filtered view.  Carsten also fixed tab completion
>> of tags.  Sweet.
>>
>> Will it be possible/useful to add some kind of indication to modeline
>> showing that filtering is in effect and the filters applied (may be
>> like "(Org Agenda Day Diary Filtered: P, t)")?  But I love it even
>> without it.
>>
>> -- Manish
>>
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