How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Varnit Suri]

Hi all,

I am using the PROPERTY keyword to identify contexts (in the GTD
approach). So here's a sample of what I do:

* Online
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CATEGORY: Computer
  :END:
** TODO Call/reply to A
** TODO Defrag work PC

The Agenda view that I see is below (Home, Computer, Work are PROPERTY
tags).

What I 'd like to do is:
1. View tasks with only a specified PROPERTY tag.
2. View the main task (if this task is a sub-task) in the Agenda view.

So in the above example, I 'm trying to see something like.
 
Computer: Online [current output] 

Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.

Current output:

Week-agenda (W16-W17):
Sunday     19 April 2009
  Home:       Sched. 2x:  TODO ETrade debit card
  Home:       In -24 d.:  TODO Respond to DMV Ticket
  Computer:     Sched. 2x:  TODO Incorporate category tags
  Work:     Scheduled:  TODO Defrag work PC

Re: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Nick Dokos]

Varnit Suri <vsuri@Brocade.COM> wrote:

> ...
> The Agenda view that I see is below (Home, Computer, Work are PROPERTY
> tags).
> 
> What I 'd like to do is:
> 1. View tasks with only a specified PROPERTY tag.
> 2. View the main task (if this task is a sub-task) in the Agenda view.
> 
> ... 

Does 

     http://orgmode.org/manual/Matching-tags-and-properties.html#Matching-tags-and-properties

help? In your example, I think you'd say something like this (untested):

C-c a m +CATEGORY="Computer" <RET>

BTW, there are many built-in agenda views - you seem to be doing "C-c a a"
which gives you the current week/day agenda view. But if you stop
after "C-c a", you'll be at the agenda dispatcher, which shows you a list
of agenda views. E.g., the "a" key in the dispatcher gives you the weekly
agenda view, the "m" key lets you match tags and properties etc. See

    http://orgmode.org/manual/Built_002din-agenda-views.html#Built_002din-agenda-views

for more details. You can even add custom agenda views:

    http://orgmode.org/manual/Custom-agenda-views.html#Custom-agenda-views

HTH,
Nick

Re: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Manish]

FWIW, I use tags to  mark contexts and filtering on tags is really
really fast and flexible.

-- 
Manish

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Varnit Suri <vsuri@brocade.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the PROPERTY keyword to identify contexts (in the GTD
> approach). So here's a sample of what I do:
>
> * Online
>  :PROPERTIES:
>  :CATEGORY: Computer
>  :END:
> ** TODO Call/reply to A
> ** TODO Defrag work PC
>
> The Agenda view that I see is below (Home, Computer, Work are PROPERTY
> tags).
>
> What I 'd like to do is:
> 1. View tasks with only a specified PROPERTY tag.
> 2. View the main task (if this task is a sub-task) in the Agenda view.
>
> So in the above example, I 'm trying to see something like.
>
> Computer: Online [current output]
>
> Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Current output:
>
> Week-agenda (W16-W17):
> Sunday     19 April 2009
>  Home:       Sched. 2x:  TODO ETrade debit card
>  Home:       In -24 d.:  TODO Respond to DMV Ticket
>  Computer:     Sched. 2x:  TODO Incorporate category tags
>  Work:     Scheduled:  TODO Defrag work PC
>
>
>
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RE: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Varnit Suri]

Thanks. I agree this is prolly a better approach.

I did get things to work (see code in post-script) a bit using your suggestion and:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Block-agenda.html#Block-agenda 
http://orgmode.org/manual/Storing-searches.html#Storing-searches 

But maybe I wasn't clear enough in describing what I 'm trying to do. 

I 'd like to parse the weekly Agenda (C-c a a) to show only those items that meet the specified criteria (eg, certain tags, todo-tags, or properties). The advantage is that that shows the relevant items, will complete details of dates, etc. Its sort of running a grep on the weekly Agenda output.

Any ideas are appreciated.

V.

PS: The two custom searches that I coded up are:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
     '(("h" "Agenda for context Home"
	 ((agenda "")
	  (tags "HOME")))))

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
     '(("h" "Agenda for context Home" agenda (tags "HOME"))))


-----Original Message-----
From: Manish [mailto:mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:24 PM
To: Varnit Suri
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

FWIW, I use tags to  mark contexts and filtering on tags is really
really fast and flexible.

-- 
Manish

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Varnit Suri <vsuri@brocade.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the PROPERTY keyword to identify contexts (in the GTD
> approach). So here's a sample of what I do:
>
> * Online
>  :PROPERTIES:
>  :CATEGORY: Computer
>  :END:
> ** TODO Call/reply to A
> ** TODO Defrag work PC
>
> The Agenda view that I see is below (Home, Computer, Work are PROPERTY
> tags).
>
> What I 'd like to do is:
> 1. View tasks with only a specified PROPERTY tag.
> 2. View the main task (if this task is a sub-task) in the Agenda view.
>
> So in the above example, I 'm trying to see something like.
>
> Computer: Online [current output]
>
> Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Current output:
>
> Week-agenda (W16-W17):
> Sunday     19 April 2009
>  Home:       Sched. 2x:  TODO ETrade debit card
>  Home:       In -24 d.:  TODO Respond to DMV Ticket
>  Computer:     Sched. 2x:  TODO Incorporate category tags
>  Work:     Scheduled:  TODO Defrag work PC
>
>
>
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> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>

Re: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Manish]

  On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Varnit Suri wrote:
  > Thanks. I agree this is prolly a better approach.
  >
  > I did get things to work (see code in post-script) a bit using
  > your suggestion and:
  > http://orgmode.org/manual/Block-agenda.html#Block-agenda
  > http://orgmode.org/manual/Storing-searches.html#Storing-searches
  >
  > But maybe I wasn't clear enough in describing what I 'm trying to
  > do.
  >
  > I 'd like to parse the weekly Agenda (C-c a a) to show only those
  > items that meet the specified criteria (eg, certain tags,
  > todo-tags, or properties). The advantage is that that shows the
  > relevant items, will complete details of dates, etc. Its sort of
  > running a grep on the weekly Agenda output.
  >
  > Any ideas are appreciated.

Have you seen http://orgmode.org/worg/org-customization-survey.php ?
Check out Matthew Lundin's agenda customizations in particular.  It
the awesomest use of agenda customization that I have ever seen.

-- 
Manish

RE: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Varnit Suri]

Ok, I went through Matt Lundin's agenda file. While he doesn't do what I
was trying to, it did give me a hint about how to implement a simple
grep on every Agenda entry, and then include only the lines that match a
certain criteria, as part of the main Agenda view.

(The current problem with the examples in the two links below is that
they display the entire Agenda, and then the matching tags separately).

So here's my code:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks"
	 ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-skip-function
'(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":HOME:"))))))))

The only problem I 'm left to solve is, that this skips entries with the
tag HOME, rather than including them. I 'm only trying a way to do the
inverse match (ie skip entries that don't match HOME), but I havent been
able to nail the syntax.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Varnit
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Manish [mailto:mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:12 AM
To: Varnit Suri
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] How to view tasks with certain Property tag in
Agenda view


  On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Varnit Suri wrote:
  > Thanks. I agree this is prolly a better approach.
  >
  > I did get things to work (see code in post-script) a bit using
  > your suggestion and:
  > http://orgmode.org/manual/Block-agenda.html#Block-agenda
  > http://orgmode.org/manual/Storing-searches.html#Storing-searches
  >
  > But maybe I wasn't clear enough in describing what I 'm trying to
  > do.
  >
  > I 'd like to parse the weekly Agenda (C-c a a) to show only those
  > items that meet the specified criteria (eg, certain tags,
  > todo-tags, or properties). The advantage is that that shows the
  > relevant items, will complete details of dates, etc. Its sort of
  > running a grep on the weekly Agenda output.
  >
  > Any ideas are appreciated.

Have you seen http://orgmode.org/worg/org-customization-survey.php ?
Check out Matthew Lundin's agenda customizations in particular.  It
the awesomest use of agenda customization that I have ever seen.

-- 
Manish

Re: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Matthew Lundin]

Hi Varnit,

"Varnit Suri" <vsuri@Brocade.COM> writes:

> So here's my code:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       '(("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks"
> 	 ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-skip-function
> '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":HOME:"))))))))
>
> The only problem I 'm left to solve is, that this skips entries with the
> tag HOME, rather than including them. I 'm only trying a way to do the
> inverse match (ie skip entries that don't match HOME), but I havent been
> able to nail the syntax.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks"
	 ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-skip-function
         '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp ":HOME:"))))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I think this should do it.

Regards,                       
Matt

RE: How to view tasks with certain Property tag in Agenda view

[Varnit Suri]

Thanks! This worked!

Varnit
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Lundin [mailto:Matthew.Lundin@valpo.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:25 PM
To: Varnit Suri
Cc: Manish; emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] How to view tasks with certain Property tag in
Agenda view

Hi Varnit,

"Varnit Suri" <vsuri@Brocade.COM> writes:

> So here's my code:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       '(("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks"
> 	 ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-skip-function
> '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":HOME:"))))))))
>
> The only problem I 'm left to solve is, that this skips entries with
the
> tag HOME, rather than including them. I 'm only trying a way to do the
> inverse match (ie skip entries that don't match HOME), but I havent
been
> able to nail the syntax.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("h" "Agenda and Home-related tasks"
	 ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-skip-function
         '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp ":HOME:"))))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I think this should do it.

Regards,                       
Matt