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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mixing org-mode tables with outlining?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 06:36:55 -0600
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To: Chris Barber <c.barber80@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Chris Barber <c.barber80@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a great idea!
> I think I may well end up using this.
> Would it still be possible to do calculations within the heading?

Calculation on properties of headings should be possible with org-collector
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html

> 
> Eg once I have filled in all my headings and properties, how could I
> make the value of the last property for each heading equal to the
> average of the previous 3 columns?
>

I'm not sure if your above case would work out of the box, but the
current implementation should be a start.

Best -- Eric

>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Michael Brand
> <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris
>>
>> This _is_ fantastic, Org can do it with column view:
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-view.html#Column-view
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:21, Chris Barber <c.barber80@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi, I am planning to record some ideas in org-mode, and I would love to
>> be
>> > able to set it out as follows:
>> > * Ideas
>> > ** | Idea | A property | A property |
>> > *** Regular outlined notes
>> > Some notes
>> > *** More sub notes
>> > ** | Idea 2 | Property | Property |
>> > Is there any way for me to do this? Essentially it would function like a
>> > table until you tab down into it.
>> > I think this would be FANTASTIC!
>>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/