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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ignore sub-items of Scheduled TODOs?
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:45:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prcih9vv.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211769420907021621q449d3fa8md8cb2f85ade3927b@mail.gmail.com> (Nathan Neff's message of "Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:21:47 -0500")

Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know the best way for removing TODO items from the agenda if
> they have a parent item that's been scheduled.
>
> Currently, I have items like this:
>
> * TODO top level item, scheduled for future
>   SCHEDULED: <2009-07-16 Thu>
> ** TODO A sub-item I don't want to see until 7/16
> ** TODO Another sub-item I don't want to see until 7/16
>
> If I set org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date to non-nil and go to the
> agenda C-c a a, then I still see the second and third todos.
>
> Is this a bug, or is there a quick way of removing these todos that
> are under a scheduled item from the agenda list? Or, am I probably
> going about this the wrong way?

Probably the simplest thing to do is to add SCHEDULED timestamps to the
sub-items as well. As I understand it, org-mode timestamps cannot be
inherited by subheadings. I imagine someone else will quickly come along
and correct me if I'm wrong. :)

Best, 
Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-03  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-02 23:21 Ignore sub-items of Scheduled TODOs? Nathan Neff
2009-07-03  0:45 ` Matthew Lundin [this message]
     [not found]   ` <211769420907031203m62f0185ekb2c45e6ef6790710@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-03 19:36     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-07-03  7:05 ` Christian Egli

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