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.

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Bastien

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