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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: TODO's and cookies
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:06:13 +0100
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To: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
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On Saturday,  2 Aug 2014 at 15:50, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I've been looking for some time how to extend cookies in an org-mode file
> with loads of TODO's. In my specific case I am writing a book, and this
> file has the plan of the book, with each section its own TODO, and ditto
> for the chapters. Some of the sections are IN-PROGRESS or DONE, others
> still TODO. So its looking like this -

[...]

> By the first TODO which is the title its showing -  [1/8] [12%] - which
> is showing that there are 8 chapters, and its 12% completed. But, is it
> possible to also get an overall count of all the sections/TODO's completed 
> please?

You would have to use lists instead of headlines and then use checkboxes
on the list entries.  Each of your headlines in your example would be a
list item.

> (setq org-checkbox-hierarchical-statistics t)

Checkboxes are only for lists.

HTH,
eric
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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-237-gcc6aa4