Re: Only Clock in Top-Level Task

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> writes:

Q> Bernt Hansen wrote:
>> Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This is what my project.org looks like:
>>>
>>> * STARTED My Project 			       :NEXT:	
>>>   :LOGBOOK:...
>>>
>>> ** TODO Task 1 [0/2]
>>> *** TODO Sub-Task 1
>>> *** TODO Sub-Task 2
>>>
>>> This is what I'd like to do:
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to clock in from Task 1, Sub-Task 1, or Sub-Task
>>> 2, but make org-mode add the clock entries into the :LOGBOOK: of My
>>> Project, i.e. the top-level task/project.  In other words, I'm not
>>> interested in keeping track of how much time I spent on Task 1, or any
>>> of the sub-tasks, I'm only interested in the time I've spent on
>>> working on My Project.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to do this?
>>
>> C-c C-x C-d will total time for a task including times on a subtask.
>>
>> -Bernt
>
> Hi Bernt,
>
> I saw this option in the manual, but this is not quite what I
> want. What I'd like to be able to is clock in from any sub-task and be
> clocked into the *top-level* task, not the task I'm clocking in from.
>
> Is that feasible?  Or am I too confusing?

There is nothing I'm aware of that is built in which will accomplish
what you want.  You might be able to use the org-clock-in-hook and
custom lisp code to clock in the top-most parent task.

-Bernt