Re: Only Clock in Top-Level Task

[Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>]

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> 
>> Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Q> Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>>> Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is what my project.org looks like:
>>>>>
>>>>> * STARTED My Project                    :NEXT:   
>>>>>  :LOGBOOK:...
>>>>>
>>>>> ** TODO Task 1 [0/2]
>>>>> *** TODO Sub-Task 1
>>>>> *** TODO Sub-Task 2
>>>>>
>>>>> This is what I'd like to do:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to be able to clock in from Task 1, Sub-Task 1, or Sub-Task
>>>>> 2, but make org-mode add the clock entries into the :LOGBOOK: of My
>>>>> Project, i.e. the top-level task/project.  In other words, I'm not
>>>>> interested in keeping track of how much time I spent on Task 1, or any
>>>>> of the sub-tasks, I'm only interested in the time I've spent on
>>>>> working on My Project.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there anyway to do this?
>>>>
>>>> C-c C-x C-d will total time for a task including times on a subtask.
>>>>
>>>> -Bernt
>>>
>>> Hi Bernt,
>>>
>>> I saw this option in the manual, but this is not quite what I
>>> want. What I'd like to be able to is clock in from any sub-task and be
>>> clocked into the *top-level* task, not the task I'm clocking in from.
>>>
>>> Is that feasible?  Or am I too confusing?
>>
>> There is nothing I'm aware of that is built in which will accomplish
>> what you want.  You might be able to use the org-clock-in-hook and
>> custom lisp code to clock in the top-most parent task.
> 
> Indeed, this is not implemented, and I have a hard time seeing why this 
> would be desirable?  Summing i always hierarchical, so the time will be 
> shown in the parent time anyway.

Thanks for the reply, Carsten (and Bernt of course).

The reason why I'm asking is I started out with clocking tasks using a 
really simple setup (I consider myself a bloody org newbie) where I only 
had level 1 tasks.  Now, I've added level 2 and level 3 tasks, and I 
wondered if my sudden clocking of level 2 tasks would screw up the clock 
summary.

Good to know that it won't, this'll help me in using org more effciently.

Thanks for org-mode, btw, it's a really great thing!

Markus