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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: property matching in org-agenda-custom-commands
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:39:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg0oqotp.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAN_Dec-kPyagJ5sChNDMQW36O0ecVS7Baa3EgDxvM8R8umEVxw@mail.gmail.com

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> Embarassed that I still don't really know how to use the agenda commands after all this time :-(

Ditto - I need to read the doc for org-agenda-custom-commands every
time I try to use it.

>
> I have a bunch of trees that look in part like this:
> * Asisgnment 1
> ** Student A
> :PROPERTIES:
> :GRADE: 0
> :END:
> I would like to store a search in org-agenda-custom-commands. I generated it initially with ~C-c a < m
> +GRADE="0"~. Now I have tried to store it in org-agenda-custom-commands with this line:
>
> ("F" "Failing Students in Current Buffer Only" tags-tree "+GRADE=\"0\"")
>
> However, this seems to choke, and the agenda is not generated. There are no error messages in *Messages*
> so I'm not quite sure what's going on.  Can anyone see obvious mistakes in my syntax?
>
> Thank you!
>

This looks right and it also seems to work correctly for me.

One thing to note is the doc for tags-tree:

,----
|           tags-tree   Sparse tree with all tags matches in *current* file.
`----

so you need to be visiting the file.

Here's what I did:

I added it to the end of org-agenda-custom-commands with

(add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
             '("F" "Failing Students in Current Buffer Only" tags-tree "+GRADE=\"0\"")
             t)

then added a bunch of entries to an org file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* Asisgnment 1
** Student A
:PROPERTIES:
:GRADE: 0
:END:
** Student B
:PROPERTIES:
:GRADE: 1
:END:
** Student C
:PROPERTIES:
:GRADE: 0
:END:
** Student D
:PROPERTIES:
:GRADE: 2
:END:
** Student E
:PROPERTIES:
:GRADE: 0
:END:
** Student F
:PROPERTIES:
:GRADE: 3
:END:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Then while visiting this file, I did

C-c a F

I get a sparse tree with the headings for students A, C and E.

-- 
Nick

"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-05 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-05 17:31 property matching in org-agenda-custom-commands Matt Price
2019-04-05 18:39 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2019-04-05 20:16 ` Thomas Plass
2019-04-06  1:26   ` Matt Price
2019-04-06  9:06     ` Thomas Plass

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