Re: Displaying day-resources (or a secondary time-line)

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 18, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Sven Bretfeld wrote:

> Hi Carsten and all others
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> You can also use diary sexp entries to also do the others, by  
>> checking
>> for weekdays. See the examples in the FAQ
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#diary-sexp-in-org-files
>>
>> For example (untested)
>>
>> ** Secretary present 8:00-12:00
>>   <%%(and (member (calendar-day-of-week date) '(1 3)))>
>>
>> As for sorting, I guess the easiest would be use a special tag and
>> then a custom sorting strategy function in org-agenda-cmp-user- 
>> defined
>> to sort these to the end of the agenda display.
>
> Thanks for all your suggestions. I didn't know about the power of
> diary-sexps. Thanks to Memnon, I have also learned about the
> org-agenda-skip-function which I now have used to construct a solution
> that works fine for me:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>      '(("q" "Agenda and Metadata"
> 	 ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if
> 						  'regexp ":META:"))))
> 	  (agenda "" ((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if
> 						  'notregexp ":META:"))(org-agenda-overriding-header "Today's  
> resources (metadata): ")))
> 	  (tags "MIT")
> 	  (tags "BIGROCK")))))
>
> I would prefer to have this Agenda View bound to the standard C-aa.

Do you mean `C-c a a' ?

> Is
> that possible? Setting "a" via org-agenda-custom-commands results in  
> an
> error at starttime. This keybinding seems to be hard-coded.

They are hard-coded, but you can in fact overrule them with custom  
commands.  Many people do this, so that definitely works.

- Carsten