Re: Re: Bug with time summary in column view?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Nov 25, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote:

> Norbert Zeh [2009.11.25  543 -0400]:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> thanks for looking into this, and fixing it.  I'd be happy to test.
>> Just one question.  If I don't want to overwrite my stable version of
>> org mode that's installed and I choose to install the git version  
>> in a
>> separate location, how to I instruct emacs to use the git version
>> instead of the stable one?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Norbetr
>
> Alright, while we're at it ;), here's another somewhat unexpected
> behaviour.  I'm not even sure this should be considered a bug, but  
> it's
> more a matter of defining what the right behaviour should be.
>
> If I have an entry with an effort estimate of, say, 1:00 and it is  
> shown
> in today's agenda because it is scheduled today and the deadline is  
> in 2
> days, the 1:00 time effort is counted twice in the effort summary for
> the day.  To me, this doesn't make much sense, as it's only one task,
> not two.  So, if I were to choose how to treat this situation, I would
> simply say that all entries shown because of their deadline should not
> be listed in this summary.  Then, of course, this may not be the right
> rule in all situations.
>
> Any ideas how one could let the user specify on a per-column basis
> whether entries shown because of a deadline should be included in the
> summary or not?

This is, unfortunately, very hard to fix.

A partial remedy could be

(setq org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-deadline-is-shown t)

but it works the other way round, and I cannot easily make a variable
org-agenda-skip-deadline-if-scheduled-is-shown.

- Carsten