There is an apparent bug when using the ID property to refer to cells in
remote tables, which is currently the only way to refer to a table in an
external file.

This is illustrated in the attached org file.  In brief, the bug is
triggered by any ID that contains a sequence matching the regexp
"-[A-Z]+[0-9]+-", which org wants to interpret as a spreadsheet-style cell
reference.

Also, it would be more user friendly if CUSTOM_ID properties could also be
used in this way.  Would that be easy to implement?

Will


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Arun,
>
> Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov> writes:
>
> > thanks for the answer. It would be nice to be able to reference tables
> > in other files easily though, so some form of <path>:<tablename> would
> > be great for the remote call. Is there some special ref syntax that
> > could be used here?
>
>      remote(NAME-OR-ID,REF)
>
> describes a reference to a table in a section, possibly in a different
> file, and the ID property is probably more stable than a filename, so
> I'd argue that what we have is enough.
>
> --
>  Bastien
>
>


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