From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
To: Emacs Org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Remaining work/progress report: nearly useful, help needed
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:01:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d30pjjz2.fsf@ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fw5mjv31.fsf@ed.ac.uk>
Just an update to say I have managed to do one of the things I was
asking for help with. As with most things, it was easier than I
thought.
Myles English writes:
> Hi orgees,
>
> In March I had a go at making a "Remaining work/progress report"[1].
> Having make some progress, I am looking for:
>
> - help,
> - collaborators,
> - opinions on whether this would be useful enough to be worth the
> effort,
> - whether anyone else has something like this (but better) and
> - any other wisdom,
>
> with a view to contributing it.
[yaddayadda]
> 4 Improvements necessary to make it truly useful
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 1. include a captured column view of the INCLUDEd file b.org: the file's
> headings are included in the TOC because it uses the new exporter, but
> not in the column-view. Maybe exporting as org first and then
> taking the column view of that buffer would work.
Done! It can be achieved by making this change to my-progress.el:
(with-current-buffer (if view-file
(get-file-buffer view-file)
(current-buffer))
+ ;; do everything in a copy of the current buffer
+ (org-export-with-current-buffer-copy
+ (org-export-expand-include-keyword)
(save-excursion (setq mytoc (reverse (toc-alist))))
(save-excursion
(save-restriction
(org-columns)
(setq tbl (org-columns-capture-view maxlevel skip-empty-rows))
(setq nfields (length (car tbl)))
- (org-columns-quit))))
+ (org-columns-quit)))))
(goto-char pos)
(move-marker pos nil)
(when tbl
> 2. Accumulate the time Remaining in the same way that CLOCKSUM does;
> it propagates upwards to higher level headings so that you can see
> (e.g.) how long Chapter 1 will take in total
>
> 3. Refresh all the Remaining properties automatically
>
> I would really appreciate some help, particularly with 1.
2 & 3
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Myles
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/53567
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-10 13:49 Remaining work/progress report: nearly useful, help needed Myles English
2012-10-11 12:01 ` Myles English [this message]
2012-10-12 16:15 ` Myles English
2012-10-13 1:48 ` Myles English
2012-12-22 17:29 ` Bastien
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