Seems like a good solution. Although how about HEADLINE_LEVEL,
OUTLINE_LEVEL or some abbreviation to make it more unlikely to clash with
user defined properties?

BrettW

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> >
> >> I think "ITEM" is expected return the headline without all the meta
> >> data. If no one objects, I'll change it so in master.
> >
> > Yes, thanks for this,
>
> Here is the current state:
>
> ITEM property includes stars, TODO keyword, priority, headline and tags,
> but only if they do not have already a dedicated column. So, in the
> following example
>
>   #+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %TODO %PRIORITY %TAGS
>
> ITEM will contain only stars and headline. This cannot properly work in,
> e.g., a clock table, which doesn't know about columns.
>
> We can get rid of this "smart" behaviour and remove TODO keyword,
> priority and tags in all cases.
>
> However the situation is not so simple for the stars, since there is no
> LEVEL special property. IOW, if we remove the stars, it is actually not
> possible anymore to know the level of the headline.
>
> If we want to remove them, I suggest adding a new LEVEL special
> property. Note that in this case, user defined properties cannot be
> labelled "level" anymore. Another option, as the OP suggested, is to
> create a new special property, e.g., HEADLINE, which will contain only
> the title.
>
> WDYT?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>