Re: org-agenda-custom-commands clarification on filters needed

[Thomas Wallrafen <lists@ranulf.de>]

Hi

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:53:01AM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28 2011, Thomas Wallrafen wrote:
> 
> > Hi org'ers,
> >
> > I am currently trying to figure out a way to build a composite view for
> > an agenda containing agenda and todos, which works well but when it
> > comes to setting filters...
> >
> > In the first example (agenda and todo list below) the filter "+home" for
> > the agenda does not take effect. When reordering that the todo list is
> > on top and the agenda below, it works as expected. That is, both items
> > of the composite view are correctly filtered with tag "+home".
> >
> > #+begin_src elisp
> > (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
> > 	  '(("h" "Agenda and home related todos" (
> > 		  (agenda "" ((org-agenda-filter-preset '("+home")) (org-agenda-span 4)))
> > 		  (tags-todo "+home")
> > 		  ))))
> 
> I've been fooling with this recently, as well. The docstring for
> `org-agenda-filter-preset' says that it "will not work reliably" to
> filter just a single block of a multi-block custom agenda. You need to
> put the filter in the tail end of the whole definition, and that way it
> will apply to all the blocks (apparently there's no reliable way to
> apply different filters to different blocks, but that's probably a rare
> use-case). So I think you want:
> 
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
> 	  '(("h" "Agenda and home related todos"
>              ((agenda)
>               (tags-todo))
>              ((org-agenda-filter-preset '("+home"))
>               (org-agenda-span 4)))))
> 
> This or something very close to it should work. It only works with tags
> though, not more complex matches.

Thank you for the answer. I'll experiment with that tonight.

bye,

thomas