One thought  I need to try either pushing one item at a time or
concatenation the list of options.   I'll try it when I get a chance.
Playtime is over for now. Thanks for all help and suggestions so far.

C
On Oct 6, 2015 5:43 PM, "tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can do the following in .emacs
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>       '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> "/default.org") "Tasks")
>          "* TODO %?")
>         ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
> "/journal.org"))
>          "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")
>         ;;product or work specific stuff - I would like to move these
> to files and have
>         ;;them loaded - maybe in the future
>     ("p" "product")
>     ("pt" "Product Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> "/product.org") "Tasks") "* TODO %?")))
>
> and it works as expected
>
> but if I do this in .emacs:
> (setq org-capture-templates
>       '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> "/default.org") "Tasks")
>          "* TODO %?")
>         ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
> "/journal.org"))
>          "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")))
>         ;;product or work specific stuff - I would like to move these
> to files and have
>         ;;them loaded - maybe in the future
>
> (load-file (concat org-directory
> "/capture-templates/product-templates.el"))
>
> with product-templates containing:
>
> (push '(("p" "product") ("pt" "Product - Todo" entry (file+headline
> (concat org-directory "/product.org") "Tasks") "* TODO %?"))
> org-capture-templates)
>
> and then I use C-c n to go to capture mode, it just hangs with the
> mouse cursor in a spinning wheel.  Am I not translating the part to go
> into submenus correctly, or can you not add sub-menus as I am doing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -C
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > "tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I am trying to figure out how to store multiple capture templates in a
> >> file, have several files of related templates, and then load all the
> >> files stored in a directory.  For example, lets say I have two
> >> projects at work WorkProject1 and WorkProject2.  Then I have two files
> >> in a directory org-templates called WorkProj1Templates.el and
> >> WorkTemplates2.el.  How can I append the templates in these files to
> >> or capture templates?  In my main .emacs, I have:
> >>
> >> (setq org-capture-templates
> >>       '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> >> "/default.org") "Tasks")
> >>          "* TODO %?")
> >>         ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
> >> "/journal.org"))
> >>          "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")))
> >>
> >> I would like to then load the template files in org-templates.  That
> >> way, when a project ends, I can just yank the templates.  I have
> >> experimentally tried using add-to-list with org-capture-templates
> >> without success.  Either that can't be done or my syntax was wrong?
> >
> > How could anyone tell if you don't show your attempt?
> >
> >> Does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > What about this?
> >
> > WorkProj1Templates.el:
> >
> > #v+
> > (push '("1" "Todo" entry
> >         (file+headline
> >          (concat org-directory "/WorkProj1.org")
> >          "Tasks")
> >         "* TODO %?")
> >       org-capture-templates)
> > #v-
> >
> > --
> > Marco Wahl
> > GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2
> >
> >
>