Re: Tag table entries?

[Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I wonder if it is possible to tag rows in a table?
>
> For example, if  I have a table of expenses, i.e. columns with "date", "note" and "sum",
> and then want to group the entries into different categories such as "groceries", "car" etc.
>
> Can I do this someway?

Hi Johan,

You can't attach metadata such as tags to table rows. Two things come to
mind.

1. If you just want the table for visual purposes (as opposed for doing
   calculations with it), then you could use column-view. I.e. you would
   have a subtree for groceries and a subtree for car; categories such
   as date, note and sum would be stored in properties.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-view.html#Column-view

Visibility cycling works in column view so you can group and ungroup the rows.

[is there anyway of creating a normal Org table from a column view
"table"?]

2. org-babel: If you're happy with a suitable supported language, then
   store the category label in a column and you can transform the master
   table however you want. R would be a convenient language for working
   with a table like this.

Dan



>
> Best regards,
> Johan
>
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