Re: Exporting Properties

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

"Charlie Burrows" <charlie.burrows@gmail.com> writes:

> Can anyone tell me a good way to export the custom property block. I
> am trying to use org-mode as a project planner and I need to allow
> other team members to see the estimates in my plan.

I deal with this by inserting a table in the subtree main task with the
current snapshot of estimates.

I have the following global setting in my .emacs

,----[ .emacs setup for column mode ]
| (setq org-columns-default-format "%40ITEM(Task) %17Effort(Estimated Effort){:} %CLOCKSUM")
`----

If you have something like this:

,----[ test.org ]
| * Project 1
| ** Task 1
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :Effort:   1:00
|    :END:
| ** Task 2
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :Effort:   2:00
|    :END:
| ** Task 3
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :Effort:   0:10
|    :END:
`----

and you put the insertion point in the level 1 task and hit
C-c C-x r RET

You get a table like the following

,----
| * Project 1
| #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id local
| | Task        | Estimated Effort | CLOCKSUM |
| |-------------+------------------+----------|
| | * Project 1 |             3:10 |          |
| | ** Task 1   |             1:00 |          |
| | ** Task 2   |             2:00 |          |
| | ** Task 3   |             0:10 |          |
| #+END:
| ** Task 1
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :Effort:   1:00
|    :END:
| ** Task 2
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :Effort:   2:00
|    :END:
| ** Task 3
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :Effort:   0:10
|    :END:
`----

That does exactly what I need for sharing estimates and taking a
snapshot of the estimated time.  I'm then free to change the estimates
during the project and compare that to my initial information.

The table is exported to HTML when I export the document.

Hope that helps,
Bernt