From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: How to use org-capture with "dynamic ID" targets?
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:38:42 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50f72bf5.669dec0a.7b79.ffffdcb0@mx.google.com> (raw)
I'm trying to set-up some org-capture templates using the ID target
type. However, I need the ID to be determined either as the return value of
a function or as the value of a variable.
When I use a template such as
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
("f" "The template description" table-line
(id "someIDstring")
"this is the template content"
:table-line-pos "II-1"
:immediate-finish t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
everything works as expected and a table in the headline with ID
"someIDstring" is used. However, if I try
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
("f" "The template description" table-line
(id some_variable)
"this is the template content"
:table-line-pos "II-1"
:immediate-finish t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
or
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
("f" "The template description" table-line
(id (some_function))
"this is the template content"
:table-line-pos "II-1"
:immediate-finish t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
then it does not work even if some_variable or (some_function) provides the
correct ID value. It seems that
(id something)
will always interpret "something" as a string (no matter if I put it inside
quotes or not).
Is it possible to achieve what I want with the current org-capture
implementation? If not, consider this as a feature request.
The reason behind this is that each month I want a different target table
for this capture template and I already implemented a function that returns
the correct ID. If I can somehow make the ID target type use the return
value of this function then this capture template will use the correct
table each month. If not, I would be forced to manually change the capture
template in the beginning of each month (something I will definitely
forget).
--
Darlan
next reply other threads:[~2013-01-16 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-16 22:38 Darlan Cavalcante Moreira [this message]
2013-01-24 19:01 ` How to use org-capture with "dynamic ID" targets? Bastien
2013-01-28 18:05 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2013-01-29 5:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-01-29 14:20 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
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