Combination of 'ordered' property and 'scheduled' hides TODO items.

Combination of 'ordered' property and 'scheduled' hides TODO items.

[mrb]

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Hi,

I'm using the ORDERED property in some/most of my projects and
generally hide BLOCKED items everywhere except in a special list of
blocked items which I review with some regularity. Overall, this works
fine, org nicely filters out what is possible to work on and hides
others.

I'd like to make  it a bit smarter by having scheduled and deadlined
items be 'unhidden' even though they would be invisible according to
their order.

A typical structure to which the above would apply is something like
this:

* PROJ Some project with sequential tasks
:PROPERTIES:
:ORDERED: t
:END:
** TODO First
** TODO Second, but scheduled
SCHEDULED: <2010-03-30 Tue>
** TODO Third, but deadlined
DEADLINE: <2010-03-29 Mon>
** TODO Last

In my lists the 'Second, but scheduled' and 'Third, but deadlined' do
not appear, because they are blocked by 'First'.

For the above situations, I'd like to make an exception in the hiding,
but do not know where to start. I could imagine a customization
variable which allows a list of exceptions to the 'hide' rule. 

Anyone has any tips/pointers on the above? 

Thx,
marcel

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Re: Combination of 'ordered' property and 'scheduled' hides TODO items.

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi,

you would have to write your own functions for the blocker hook and  
install it instead of the default one.  If would not be so hard -  
basically call the default blocker hook function and then test  
yourself if the entry is scheduled, and combine the result.

However, I would just use a normal agenda, where you set org-agenda- 
dim-blocked-tasks to nil in the option section.

HTH

- Carsten

On Mar 31, 2010, at 11:05 AM, mrb@hsdev.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using the ORDERED property in some/most of my projects and
> generally hide BLOCKED items everywhere except in a special list of
> blocked items which I review with some regularity. Overall, this works
> fine, org nicely filters out what is possible to work on and hides
> others.
>
> I'd like to make  it a bit smarter by having scheduled and deadlined
> items be 'unhidden' even though they would be invisible according to
> their order.
>
> A typical structure to which the above would apply is something like
> this:
>
> * PROJ Some project with sequential tasks
> :PROPERTIES:
> :ORDERED: t
> :END:
> ** TODO First
> ** TODO Second, but scheduled
> SCHEDULED: <2010-03-30 Tue>
> ** TODO Third, but deadlined
> DEADLINE: <2010-03-29 Mon>
> ** TODO Last
>
> In my lists the 'Second, but scheduled' and 'Third, but deadlined' do
> not appear, because they are blocked by 'First'.
>
> For the above situations, I'd like to make an exception in the hiding,
> but do not know where to start. I could imagine a customization
> variable which allows a list of exceptions to the 'hide' rule.
>
> Anyone has any tips/pointers on the above?
>
> Thx,
> marcel
>
> -- 
> Marcel van der Boom  -- http://hsdev.com/mvdb.vcf
> HS-Development BV    -- http://www.hsdev.com
> So! web applications -- http://make-it-so.info
> Cobra build          -- http://cobra.mrblog.nl
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- Carsten

Re: Combination of 'ordered' property and 'scheduled' hides TODO items.

[mrb]

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On Sun 04-Apr-2010 09:07
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> you would have to write your own functions for the blocker hook and  
> install it instead of the default one.  If would not be so hard -  
> basically call the default blocker hook function and then test  
> yourself if the entry is scheduled, and combine the result.
> 
> However, I would just use a normal agenda, where you set org-agenda- 
> dim-blocked-tasks to nil in the option section.

Thanks for your answer. What I have done since I posted my message is
hide the BLOCKED tasks from everywhere but two places:

1. the (daily) view in my agenda 
2. a specific list of BLOCKED + SCHEDULED to check if I've overlooked
anything.

where in the agenda view I have a shortcut key assigned to toggling
the 'org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks' between the values 'invisible' and
't'

This comes close enough for now. Thanks again!

marcel

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