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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Conditionally display breadcrumbs in agenda view
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:32:02 +0100
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To: Pete Ley <peteley11235@gmail.com>
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Hi Pete,

Pete Ley <peteley11235@gmail.com> writes:

> I know there is a way to display parent headlines using the agenda
> prefix.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this conditionally for certain subtrees?

Nope.

> Here's my use case. I have an org file machines.org for keeping track of
> what I do to various machines I work on/administer (though I use that
> term hesitantly and extremely lightly :)). I keep TODO items for each
> machine for things like backups and updates. Sometimes I'll have an item
> that has subtasks and I don't want to make the parent heading a TODO
> item because it will clutter my agenda view. I just want the subtasks to
> show, but I'd like to have some reference to the overarching task.

You can hit ^ in the agenda:

^ runs the command org-agenda-filter-by-top-headline

Hope that helps,

-- 
 Bastien