Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Chris Poole]

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Hi,

I've been searching round the manual, and blogs, to find a way to do this.

I want to export all of the scheduled/deadline tasks that are not in a DONE
state to an iCalendar file.

Can this be done?


Cheers,
Chris

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Re: Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

> I've been searching round the manual, and blogs, to find a way to do this.
> 
> I want to export all of the scheduled/deadline tasks that are not in a
> DONE state to an iCalendar file.
> 
> Can this be done?

pretty sure this can be done. I export only events to an ics file that
have a start and an end date and are not in a certain category. For this
I use

(defun org-mycal-export-limit (content backend info)
  "Limit the export to items that have a date, time and a range. Also
exclude certain categories."
  (when (eq backend 'icalendar)
    (setq org-tst-regexp "<\\([0-9]\\{4\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\}-[0-9]\\{2\\} ...
[0-9]\\{2\\}:[0-9]\\{2\\}[^\r\n>]*?\\)>")
    (setq org-tstr-regexp (concat org-tst-regexp "--?-?" org-tst-regexp))
    (save-excursion
      ; get categories
      (setq mycategory (org-get-category))
      ; get start and end of tree
      (org-back-to-heading t)
      (setq mystart    (point))
      (org-end-of-subtree)
      (setq myend      (point))
      (goto-char mystart)
      ; search for timerange
      (setq myresult (re-search-forward org-tstr-regexp myend t))
      ; search for categories to exclude
      (setq mycatp (member mycategory org-export-exclude-category))
      ; return text if ok, nil when not ok
      (if (and myresult (not mycatp)) content nil))))

(defun org-mycal-export ()
  (let ((org-export-filter-final-output-functions
'(org-mycal-export-limit)))
    (org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files)))

NB org-export-exclude-category is defined somewhere else

You can look up org-export-filter-final-output-functions and other hooks
at http://orgmode.org/worg/doc.html. I overwrite that hook and have it
return the content if I like the item and skip it by returning nil if I
don't like it.

You can probably use org-entry-is-done-p or org-get-todo-state to figure
out if your entry is DONE or not and org-get-scheduled-time/
org-get-deadline-time to figure out if it's scheduled.

HTH

Arun

Re: Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Bastien]

Hi Chris,

Chris Poole <lists@chrispoole.com> writes:

> I've been searching round the manual, and blogs, to find a way to do
> this.
>
> I want to export all of the scheduled/deadline tasks that are not in
> a DONE state to an iCalendar file.
>
> Can this be done?

(setq org-icalendar-include-todo t)

Also see `org-icalendar-use-scheduled' and
`org-icalendar-use-deadline'.

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Chris Poole]

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On Tuesday, May 6, 2014, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> (setq org-icalendar-include-todo t)

I tried that, but it has the unfortunate effect of adding all my TODO
entries into the calendar.

I want unscheduled TODO items to be in tags-todo lists only (for @contexts
in GTD parlance), and scheduled TODO items to appear in the weekly agenda
and iCalendar files. (And nothing else going to iCalendar.)

I have been able to set everything up except for the last piece in
parentheses above.

Any other thoughts?

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Chris Poole]

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On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov> wrote:

> pretty sure this can be done. I export only events to an ics file that
> have a start and an end date and are not in a certain category. For this
> I use
>

That's great, thank you. I have this, but it doesn't work:

(defun filter-scheduled-todo-tasks (content backend info)
  "Filter iCalendar export to include only TODO tasks that are
not done, but which are scheduled or have a deadline."
  (when (eq backend 'icalendar)
    (if (and (org-entry-is-todo-p)
             (not (org-entry-is-done-p))
             (or (org-get-scheduled-time (point))
                 (org-get-deadline-time (point))))
        content nil)))

... called with:

(let ((org-export-filter-final-output-functions
         '(filter-scheduled-todo-tasks)))
    (org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files))

I have (setq org-icalendar-include-todo t) too.

Using edebug, it seems that the `content' argument only iterates through
the top-level headings of each of my agenda files. I was assuming it'd
iterate through each subheading too --- do I need to do this manually?

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Re: Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

On 05/10/2014 07:55 AM, Chris Poole wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov
> <mailto:apersaud@lbl.gov>> wrote:
> 
>     pretty sure this can be done. I export only events to an ics file that
>     have a start and an end date and are not in a certain category. For this
>     I use
> 
> 
> That's great, thank you. I have this, but it doesn't work:
> 
> (defun filter-scheduled-todo-tasks (content backend info)
>   "Filter iCalendar export to include only TODO tasks that are
> not done, but which are scheduled or have a deadline."
>   (when (eq backend 'icalendar)
>     (if (and (org-entry-is-todo-p)
>              (not (org-entry-is-done-p))
>              (or (org-get-scheduled-time (point))
>                  (org-get-deadline-time (point))))
>         content nil)))
> 
> ... called with:
> 
> (let ((org-export-filter-final-output-functions
>          '(filter-scheduled-todo-tasks)))
>     (org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files))

had another look and org-export-filter-final-output-functions is the
wrong function to use. I'm not really using the ical export anymore and
when the org exporter got updated a while ago, I apparently didn't
update this correctly. Sorry about that.

I think the correct way is probably something like:

(defun filter-scheduled-todo-tasks (data backend info)
   ; add check for backend
  (org-element-map data 'headline 'my-debug info)
  data)

(defun org-mycal-export ()
  (let ((org-export-filter-parse-tree-functions
'(filter-scheduled-todo-tasks)))
    (org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files)))

the filter function is called before each entry is transcoded into ical
format and gets the whole parse tree. You can then loop through the
parse tree with org-element-map looking at each headline (not 100% sure
if headline is the correct thing to use). Each headline has for example
properties set that you can use to filter. You can access them using
things like:

(defun my-debug (e)
    (message "+++++++++++++++++++++++++")
    (message (buffer-substring (org-element-property :begin e)
(org-element-property :end e)))
    (message "------")
    (message "%S" (org-element-property :raw-value e))
    (message "------ todo")
    (message "%S" (org-element-property :todo-keyword e))
    (message "------ todo type")
    (message "%S" (org-element-property :todo-type e))
    (message "------ tags")
    (message "%S" (org-element-property :tags e))
    (message "------ level")
    (message "%S" (org-element-property :level e))
    (message "*********************"))

To ignore a headline, I think, you can mark it using

(org-export-ignore-element headline info)

where headline would be the same as argument 'e' in my-debug, but I
haven't played around with this yet. I found

http://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/48068680

which uses the function and perhaps you can get an idea how things work
from it.

Arun

Re: Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Chris Poole]

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That's very helpful, thanks — I'll get experimenting.


Cheers,
Chris

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Re: Export to iCalendar only not DONE, scheduled tasks?

[Chris Poole]

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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Arun Persaud <apersaud@lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> had another look and org-export-filter-final-output-functions is the
> wrong function to use. ...
>

So, I ended up solving my problem, via an alternative route. The code is
here:

https://github.com/chrispoole643/org-gtd/blob/dcfe7122fa496de51a8de3a8f02184bc7aec05b9/org-gtd.el#L143

Essentially, the icalendar function that combines the agendas and exports
stuff just calls a function that happens to accept a restricted list of
items to export. So, I use this function directly, but first I look through
my agenda files and mark where the scheduled tasks are. I then pass these
as the restricted list, and all works well :)

Thanks for the help,
Chris

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