Re: how to include items (filtered) from other org files?

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Hi,

If I understand you correctly, you want to import into your current 
Org document tasks from other Org files that match a certain tag.

Here's one attempt; I'm sure there are better solutions, and solutions 
involving Agenda commands, which I don't understand very well.

Assuming all items are in agenda files: Evaluate the following, place 
point where you want the items, then call my/org-import-tasks and 
answer "nnpublish" at the prompt.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
   (defun my/org-import-tasks (match)
     "Import tasks with MATCH from all agenda files into present 
buffer at point."
     (interactive "MMatch: ")
     (let ((files (org-agenda-files))
           (this (current-buffer)))
       (while files
         (find-file (car files))
         (org-map-entries
          (lambda ()
            (org-copy-subtree)
            (with-current-buffer this (yank)))
          match)
         (kill-buffer)
         (setq files (cdr files)))))
#+end_src

Yours,
Christian


On 8/4/11 2:40 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Hi —
>
> Here's my challenge:
>
> I manage a lot of complex, overlapping projects. One of these
> projects is a regular newsletter. Half of the content that goes out
> in this newsletter is created by the newsletter program itself. The
> other half is the result of several other projects, which produce
> reports and articles that get published in the newsletter. The
> publishing task in all those other projects are tagged with an
> 'nnpublish' tag.
>
> I want to be able to work on the newsletter project in one place. I
> don't want to maintain duplicate tasks in wildly different places.
> (You can imagine how out of hand this would get.) What I want to do
> is INCLUDE all of the other publishing tasks programmatically in
> the org file that I use to manage the newsletter. I am completely
> stymied as to how to do this.
>
> The only information that I've had a change to look at that touches
> on the matter of including other files is in section 11.4 of the
> manual. If I'm not mistaken, it applies only to export. And the
> only processing that can be applied to the file being included is a
> limitation on which lines to include. Unless I'm missing something,
> this isn't going to meet my needs. I'm wondering if perhaps I need
> to be looking at code blocks. Maybe something that uses agenda code
> to grab items and then renders them in place. Oh hell, I don't
> know.
>
> I'm pretty lost as to how to pursue this. Any thoughts?
>
> TIA!
>
> — Michael
>
>
>
>