Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:No idea - I have never used clocktables.
> Ah yes, I see that I have to move the point into the table cell. I was
> trying with the table header. Slightly odd that. Means that it only
> works on tables that aggregate clock times across multiple files,
> where the times are put in the same cell. Can you replicate? If you do
> a clocktable with the scope set to that file, then there's no way to
> order the cells.
>
> How hard would it be to modify org-dblock-write do you think? In hours
> work for someone familiar with elisp, but not the org codebase.
>
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> On 31 March 2014 03:06, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
>
> > Yeah, tried that. Doesn't work! :(
> >
>
> AFAICT, it works fine on your first stackoverflow example.
>
> There is probably no hope of getting this method to work the way you
> want on your second example though: org-sort does not know anything
> about the substructure of the table. The only way I can think of is to
> make the dynblock function that produces the table
> (org-dblock-write:clocktable) do the sorting.
>
> > On 30 March 2014 23:24, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
> >
> > > I posted a question on StackOverflow:
> > >
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22749704/how-can-you-sort-an-org-clock-table
> > >
> > > Summary is: how do I sort an clock table by the % column?
> > >
> > > Is there anything "out there" I can use to get this working? If not,
> > > how complex a job would it be to write something that did this?
> > >
> > > If you point me in the right direction, I'll see what I can come up with.
> > >
> >
> > Never tried on a clock table, but the following works on a generic
> > table, so I assume that it will work on a clock table too: put point
> > in the column by which you want to sort the table (in the body of the
> > table, not in the header) and say M-x org-sort RET n (I assume you
> > want numeric sorting, but org-sort provides several kinds). org-sort
> > is normally bound to C-c ^ too, so
> >
> > C-c ^ n
> >
> > should be all that's needed.
> > --
> > Nick
> >
>
> --
> Nick
>
Nick