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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: lecodesportif@eml.cc
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using properties for diary-anniversaries
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:16:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7298.1295831795@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from lecodesportif@eml.cc of "Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:36:00 PST." <1295793360.20637.1416756473@webmail.messagingengine.com>

lecodesportif@eml.cc wrote:

> I have an anniversary list in Org Mode where entries have this format:
> 
> * John
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :Name: John
>   :Birthday: 5 4 1900
>   :END:
> 
> I would like to add the "Birthday" and "Name" properties to Org Agenda
> automatically. What I have so far is:
> 
> %%(apply 'diary-anniversary (read (org-entry-get nil "Birthday"))) John
> 
> When I enter this line right after the properties, the anniversary is
> added at the correct date in the agenda. But I still have to enter the
> name manually.
> 

Try something like this:

%%(apply 'diary-anniversary (mapcar 'string-to-number (split-string (org-entry-get nil "Birthday")))) John is %d years old

HTH,
Nick

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-24  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-23 14:36 Using properties for diary-anniversaries lecodesportif
2011-01-23 21:03 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-23 23:04   ` lecodesportif
2011-01-24  1:16 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-01-24  8:27   ` lecodesportif
2011-01-24 14:36     ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-24 20:46       ` Adam
2011-01-24 21:02         ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 13:17       ` lecodesportif
2011-01-25 14:53         ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 15:05         ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-25 15:22           ` lecodesportif

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