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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Saving column views in agenda
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:55:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <954B808C-9260-4A59-B4DF-943901DE9D87@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i664jhe.fsf@gmail.com>


On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Thanks so much. The updated org-collector works beautifully. This  
>> is a
>> very nice way to perform calculations on subsets of data. I don't
>> suppose there's any chance of generating a table that contains only
>> the items in the subset (e.g., only items in which string= spendtype
>> "food")?
>>
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Good idea.  I've added a :conds parameter which can do just that, see
> the example below.  Notice that :conds should be a list of tests, not
> just one single test, if this proves awkward it would be easy to add
> a :cond parameter which doesn't require a list.
>
> One issue with this setup, is that it's not clear what a stable way
> would be to specify the #+TBLFM line.  Since the size of the table  
> could
> vary the field in which the sum should be placed could move around.
> With the table below a #+TBLFM line like this
>
>  #+TBLFM: @II+1$2=vsum(@I+1..@II-1)
>
> would work, but currently org-table does not allow the @I style
> references before the = sign in the table formula.  I wonder if this
> would be hard difficult to change?

Hi Eric,

I do like this syntax, and I am sure that would be possible,
but I do not oversee it, it would be quite complicated and
would have to be changed in multiple locations, messing with
well-tested regular expressions etc.  I would need
significant quiet time, which I don't hve right now.
See also my reply to Matt's message.

- Carsten

>
>
> Thanks -- Eric
>
>
>
> * Example
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :id "december" :conds ((string= spendtype  
> "food")) :cols (ITEM amount)
> | "ITEM"                           | "amount" |
> |----------------------------------+----------|
> | "Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]" |    56.77 |
> | "Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]"    |    30.67 |
> |----------------------------------+----------|
> |                                  |    87.44 |
> #+TBLFM: @4$2=vsum(@I+1..@II-1)
> #+END:
>
> ** December Spending
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :ID:       december
>   :END:
>
> *** Week One
> **** Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]
>     :PROPERTIES:
>     :amount: 56.77
>     :spendtype: food
>     :END:
> **** Athletic club [2008-12-02 Tue]
>     :PROPERTIES:
>     :amount: 75.00
>     :spendtype: health
>     :END:
> *** Week Two
> **** Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]
>     :PROPERTIES:
>     :amount: 30.67
>     :spendtype: food
>     :END:
>
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-12  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-08  5:52 Saving column views in agenda Matthew Lundin
2008-12-08  9:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-08 15:51   ` mdl
2008-12-09  7:27     ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-09 21:55       ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-11 15:45         ` Eric Schulte
     [not found]           ` <87y6ymirmv.fsf@fastmail.fm>
2008-12-11 19:09             ` Eric Schulte
2008-12-11 21:34               ` mdl
2008-12-12  8:40                 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-12 13:21                   ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-12 11:00                 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-12 11:01                 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-12  0:25               ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-12  7:55               ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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