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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: match by property in agenda view
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 17:33:10 -0500
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	(Xebar Saram's message of "Thu, 7 Sep 2017 20:55:10 +0300")
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To: Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>
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Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all
>
> i Have this item in a property drawer:
>
> :people: %^{people?|-|allan|bob|joel}
>
> now i have this custom agenda view defined
>
> (add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
> '("sk" "wtd" 
> tags "people=\"allan\"" 
> ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down effort-down)))
> ))
>
> yet when i launch it it never finds any items which have a :people:
> allan entry in the drawer

I believe you need to use regexp syntax. The above command will find
only find property values that exactly match "allan". The following
command will find property values containing "allan".

(add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands
             '("sk" "wtd" 
               tags "people={allan}"
               ((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down effort-down)))
               ))

Best,
Matt