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From: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Agenda filtering (take 2)
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:58:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi99nu6n.fsf@aquinas.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871spy3rut.fsf@bzg.fr>

Hi everyone,
 
About a year ago, I wrote: 
> 
>> Is there a simple way for me to say to the agenda, "Show me all 
>> (and only) the NEXT tasks that are part of a project whose 
>> deadline is before (say) 2016-11-01"?  It seems like this 
>> should be possible with the built-in agenda but I can't quite 
>> figure it out.  The tricky thing is filtering by the deadline 
>> of the parent project, which might be several levels up. 

I'm still stuck on this, so I'd like to ask this question again. 
Bastien responded: 
 
> I would add a category to each project, then use something along 
> this: 
> 
> ("N" "My important tasks" tags-todo 
>  "CATEGORY={cat1\\|cat2}+TODO={NEXT}+DEADLINE<=\"<+3d>\"") 

But that doesn't seem to work for me.  The problem is that the 
tasks I want to list in the tags-todo search don't themselves have 
deadlines; only their parent projects do.

I have a file with projects that look like this:

** TODO Foo University 
   DEADLINE: <2017-11-01>
*** NEXT Determine application requirements for Foo U.
*** TODO Submit application

I'd like to see a list of just NEXT tasks in this file, sorted by 
the deadline of their parent projects.

I thought that property inheritance would be the way to do this. 
So I tried: 
 
        ("jn" "Job application NEXT tasks" tags-todo 
         "+jobmarket+application+TODO={NEXT}" 
         ((org-use-property-inheritance t)) 
          (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(deadline-up)))) 
 
as well as
 
        ("jn" "Job application NEXT tasks" tags-todo 
         "+jobmarket+application+TODO={NEXT}" 
         ((org-use-property-inheritance '("DEADLINE")) 
          (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(deadline-up)))) 
 
in org-agenda-custom-commands.  But neither seems to work.  Can 
anyone provide any insights here?  Is it possible for sub-tasks 
within a project to inherit their deadline? 

Many thanks as always!

Best,
Richard

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-24 14:56 Agenda filtering Richard Lawrence
2017-07-03  4:12 ` Bastien
2017-10-02 20:58   ` Richard Lawrence [this message]
2017-10-04 18:37     ` Agenda filtering (take 2) Narendra Joshi

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