From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Zang Subject: Re: Custom Agenda View for Projects Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:22:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36156 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q0rQH-0002wW-8D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:22:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0rQC-0003bH-KH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:22:05 -0400 Received: from mail-vx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:45235) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q0rQC-0003b3-Ha for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:22:04 -0400 Received: by vxk12 with SMTP id 12so5139979vxk.0 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:22:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Josh Berry Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 2011/3/18 Josh Berry : > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:57, Jason McBrayer wrote= : >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Josh Berry wrote: >> >>> I think org considers child tasks to be dependencies of the parent >>> task -- so if a parent task (such as your PROJ) has children, it won't >>> be displayed in a tags-todo agenda view, because that takes >>> dependencies into account. >> >> That's a logical explanation, but shouldn't this only be the case if >> the parent has the :ORDERED: property set? > > No, if :ORDERED: is set, then each child is a dependency of the next > child. =C2=A0So if you have: > > * TODO top > =C2=A0 ... :ORDERED: t ... > ** TODO a > ** TODO b > ** TODO c > > Only "a" will appear in your agenda view. =C2=A0But if you have: > > * TODO top > ** TODO a > ** TODO b > ** TODO c > > All children of "top"--that is, "a", "b" and "c"--will appear. > However, in neither case will "top" appear, because it has children > that are not yet completed. > >>> Have you tried just a "tags" view with a match of "TODO=3D\"PROJ\""? >>> IIRC this will do what you want. >> >> I gave this a test, and apparently it does not. What's shown is still >> dependent on the value of org-enforce-todo-dependencies. > > I see, it does not, my bad. =C2=A0I tried experimenting a bit on my own, > and didn't find an easy way using just agendas. > > You might consider experimenting with Stuck Projects though. =C2=A0If you > consider all projects to be "stuck", you could probably build an > agenda view that shows you all projects regardless of what's in them. > (I don't use stuck projects myself, so YMMV.) > > -- Josh > Dear Josh, dear Jason, thanks a lot for evaluating the options! That makes things a lot clearer for me, and for the moment I'll stick with org-enforce-todo-dependencies nil. Cheers, Christian