Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> writes:

> Jay Iyer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Thorsten,
>> The file entries are as follows and the task/note/project sub-heads 
>> generally don't have active/inactive timestamps except when a 
>> scheduling/deadline is specified.  Thanks.
>> ** 2014-10 October
>> *** 2014-10-01 Wednesday
>> **** TODO first task
>> **** General note entry
>> **** Project                  :prj:
>
> I just read the term 'datetree' again in another post, maybe I'm not
> up-to-date and it is idiomatic Org-mode use, then sorry for the noise ...

I don't think it's well documented (I couldn't find a reference in the
manual) or well supported. org-capture does provide for it (see the doc
for org-capture-templates) but afaict that's the only significant use of
it - org-agend uses it for diary-related stuff and org-archive has to be
able to archive it and that's it. The (rather thin) support for it is in
org-datetree.el.

If there are use cases out there, it might be worth collecting them and
then thinking about how to support them better. If there aren't, maybe
it should be thrown out.

-- 
Nick

I think removing support for date tree would be very disruptive, at least for me. Datetree is the fundamental structure of my Org files (I have two Org files: work and a personal journal) as I use capture templates for almost everything with the captured items filed neatly in the date trees and this structure provides a better sense of life flow for me.  I rely on Agenda and sparse trees to extract the info/tasks/projects list.  Please keep date tree intact.  Thank you.
-jay

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Jay Iyer <jayiyer09@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Thorsten,
The file entries are as follows and the task/note/project sub-heads generally don't have active/inactive timestamps except when a scheduling/deadline is specified.  Thanks.
** 2014-10 October
*** 2014-10-01 Wednesday
**** TODO first task
**** General note entry
**** Project                  :prj:

Jay Iyer <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,
> I have my Org files set up as date-trees containing a mix of notes,
> tasks and projects. I now have a need to generate a list of projects
> and tasks filed under specific date-tree or in a range of dates. Is it
> possible to get this listing from the date-trees if the entries
> themselves don't have date/time in timestamps or in properties
> settings? I couldn't find a solution in the archives. Please advise.
> Thank you.

what is a date tree? This:

,----
| *  <2014-10-28 Di>
`----

?

If the date-tree is the parent and has a timestamp, then the entries
are part of the contents of parent, and you can use this function to
map over the parents

,----[ C-h f org-element-map RET ]
| org-element-map is a compiled Lisp function in `org-element.el'.
| 
| (org-element-map DATA TYPES FUN &optional INFO FIRST-MATCH
| NO-RECURSION WITH-AFFILIATED)
| 
| Map a function on selected elements or objects. [...]
`----

and this to get their contents

,----[ C-h f org-element-contents RET ]
| org-element-contents is a compiled Lisp function in `org-element.el'.
| 
| (org-element-contents ELEMENT)
| 
| Extract contents from an ELEMENT.
`----

and then 'org-element-property' and 'org-element-put-property' to get
and set timestamp info from the parent and any other info from the child
entries.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Jay Iyer <jayiyer09@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have my Org files set up as date-trees containing a mix of notes, tasks and projects.  I now have a need to generate a list of projects and tasks filed under specific date-tree or in a range of dates.  Is it possible to get this listing from the date-trees if the entries themselves don't have date/time in timestamps or in properties settings?  I couldn't find a solution in the archives.  Please advise.
Thank you.
-jay