Agenda view: Displaying the contents of a task

Agenda view: Displaying the contents of a task

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello,

I'm trying to have an agenda view where the TODO entries show the
subtree below, so that I can export them and have all the information
required. I've been looking around and it seems that what I want to do
is a "tags-tree", according to this message:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-12/msg00229.html

Unfortunately I cannot get this to work, even using the example from the
manual (http://orgmode.org/manual/Setting-Options.html). If I use the
following custom view

              ("U" tags-tree "+@office"
               ((org-show-following-heading nil)
                (org-show-hierarchy-above nil)))

I get a "org-check-for-org-mode: Cannot execute org-mode agenda command
on buffer in org-agenda-mode" error when I try to view it.

Is this a bug with tags-tree? Is there a way to do what I want without
using tags-tree?

Thanks a lot,

Alan

Re: Agenda view: Displaying the contents of a task

[Bastien]

Hi Alan,

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> I'm trying to have an agenda view where the TODO entries show the
> subtree below, so that I can export them and have all the information
> required. I've been looking around and it seems that what I want to do
> is a "tags-tree", according to this message:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-12/msg00229.html
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get this to work, even using the example from the
> manual (http://orgmode.org/manual/Setting-Options.html). If I use the
> following custom view
>
>               ("U" tags-tree "+@office"
>                ((org-show-following-heading nil)
>                 (org-show-hierarchy-above nil)))
>
> I get a "org-check-for-org-mode: Cannot execute org-mode agenda command
> on buffer in org-agenda-mode" error when I try to view it.

This means you tried to produce the tags-tree agenda view from a buffer
that is not an org-mode buffer.

The {tags/occur/todo}-tree views are special because they need to be
called from an Org buffer, they are always computed locally.

This was not very clear from the documentation so I added a note.

> Is this a bug with tags-tree? Is there a way to do what I want without
> using tags-tree?

Yes.  Either using tags-tree or any other way to limit the buffer to the
headlines you want (C-c / comes to mind) and then exporting only the
visible parts of the buffer (C-c C-e v ...)

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Agenda view: Displaying the contents of a task

[Alan Schmitt]

Bastien writes:

>> I'm trying to have an agenda view where the TODO entries show the
>> subtree below, so that I can export them and have all the information
>> required. I've been looking around and it seems that what I want to do
>> is a "tags-tree", according to this message:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-12/msg00229.html
>>
>> Unfortunately I cannot get this to work, even using the example from the
>> manual (http://orgmode.org/manual/Setting-Options.html). If I use the
>> following custom view
>>
>>               ("U" tags-tree "+@office"
>>                ((org-show-following-heading nil)
>>                 (org-show-hierarchy-above nil)))
>>
>> I get a "org-check-for-org-mode: Cannot execute org-mode agenda command
>> on buffer in org-agenda-mode" error when I try to view it.
>
> This means you tried to produce the tags-tree agenda view from a buffer
> that is not an org-mode buffer.
>
> The {tags/occur/todo}-tree views are special because they need to be
> called from an Org buffer, they are always computed locally.
>
> This was not very clear from the documentation so I added a note.
>
>> Is this a bug with tags-tree? Is there a way to do what I want without
>> using tags-tree?
>
> Yes.  Either using tags-tree or any other way to limit the buffer to the
> headlines you want (C-c / comes to mind) and then exporting only the
> visible parts of the buffer (C-c C-e v ...)

OK, I think I understand. In my setup all the todo are in the same
file, so it should help.

So I'll rephrase my question: how can I set-up an agenda custom view
such that it shows only the TODO from one file that have a given tag, as
well as their subtrees? (I want to use an agenda custom view because the
agenda export command are really nice and easy to use programatically.)

Thanks,

Alan

Re: Agenda view: Displaying the contents of a task

[Bastien]

Hi Alan,

Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> So I'll rephrase my question: how can I set-up an agenda custom view
> such that it shows only the TODO from one file that have a given tag, as
> well as their subtrees?

AFAIU it is not possible, no.  But it would be nice, I agree.

-- 
 Bastien