Re: Showing scheduled blocked tasks [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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

On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:23 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:

> On 12/03/2010, at 3:29 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> On Mar 11, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> What I mean is setting it as an option in the custom commands does  
>>> not seem to work, e.g. see list line in:
>>>
>>> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>> ...
>>>  ("d" "Daily Action List"
>>>   ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-ndays 1)
>>>                (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
>>>                 (quote ((agenda time-up priority-down tag-up) )))
>>>                (org-deadline-warning-days 7)))
>>>   (tags "TODO=\"STARTED\"+SCHEDULED=\"\"+DEADLINE=\"\""
>>>     ((org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks 'invisible)))
>>> ...
>>>
>>> The org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks on the generated "tags" view does  
>>> not get honoured. It *does* get honoured as a setting one level  
>>> "higher", i.e. as a local setting to the whole org-agenda-custom- 
>>> commands block, but that's not very useful here.
>>
>> OK, I see now what is happening here.  The dimming of blocked tasks  
>> is
>> done only once, at the very end, when the agenda has been made.   
>> And that is outside the scope of the local options.
>>
>> You can use a normal (custom) agenda command and do the setting  
>> there. Or you can use the global options for the block agenda to  
>> set this for the entire block agenda.  But not for a single segment  
>> in a bloc agenda, I am afraid.
>>
>> Changing this would be significant work, and I don't want to do  
>> this based on a single use case.
>
> OK, I can understand that.
>
> So, is there any way I can use a custom skip function in the TODO  
> block to remove blocked tasks? Is there a way of getting the blocked  
> status of a task from such a function?

Yes, BLOCKED is a virtual property which does this.  I think you can  
just do a tags/property/todo search like this

"-BLOCKED/+TODO"

Or you can test for the BLOCKED property in a user-written skip  
function.

- Carsten