Re: Re: Only Clock in Top-Level Task

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

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.

- Carsten