Agenda view of BBDB entries with Hebrew dates for anniversaries

Agenda view of BBDB entries with Hebrew dates for anniversaries

[ST]

Hi,

I managed to add anniversaries/birthdays to BBDB and display them in
org-agenda. Now I need to move to the next step and provide those dates
as Hebrew dates. In diary mode the dates seem to look like HSivan 17,
5776 . However if I put it to BBDB like anniversary: HSivan 17, 5776
birthday - I get error while trying to generate agenda view: bad-sexp at
line 5 /path/to/agenda.org (org-bbdb-anniversaries). Any ideas on how to
get it working?

Thank you!
ST

Re: Agenda view of BBDB entries with Hebrew dates for anniversaries

[ST]

Here is what BBDB developers have to say about my issue... maybe it will
help...

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 21:22 +0200, Roland Winkler wrote:
> On Thu Jun 23 2016 ST wrote:
> > I managed to add anniversaries/birthdays to BBDB and display them in
> > org-agenda. Now I need to move to the next step and provide those dates
> > as Hebrew dates. In diary mode the dates seem to look like HSivan 17,
> > 5776 . However if I put it to BBDB like anniversary: HSivan 17, 5776
> > birthday - I get error while trying to generate agenda view: bad-sexp at
> > line 5 /path/to/agenda.org (org-bbdb-anniversaries). Any ideas on how to
> > get it working?
> 
> You might want to ask this question on a list for org mode.
> bbdb-anniv.el has been designed to work with the Emacs calendar.  As
> described in this file
> 
>   In particular, `calendar-date-style' is obeyed via `diary-date-forms'.
> 
> Yet I do not know anything about how org mode might interact with
> BBDB anniversaries.
> 
> You mention that you get an error from org-bbdb-anniversaries.  This
> function is part of org mode, not of BBDB.  I do not know what it is
> doing / what it is supposed to do.
> 
> (Do your Hebrew dates interact properly with the Emacs calendar?)
> 
> Roland

Re: Agenda view of BBDB entries with Hebrew dates for anniversaries

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

ST <smntov@gmail.com> writes:

> Here is what BBDB developers have to say about my issue... maybe it will
> help...

Could you show an ECM demonstrating the issue? Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: Agenda view of BBDB entries with Hebrew dates for anniversaries

[ST]

1. Get into BBDB mode
2. add new record with the field:
anniversary: HSivan 17, 5776 birthday
(that is the way you specify a Hebrew date in diary by pressing "i h d"
or Diary -> Insert Hebrew -> One time)
3. Get into Org mode
4. Generate Agenda view: C-c a a

Thank you!


On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 22:19 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ST <smntov@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Here is what BBDB developers have to say about my issue... maybe it will
> > help...
> 
> Could you show an ECM demonstrating the issue? Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Re: Agenda view of BBDB entries with Hebrew dates for anniversaries

[Nicolas Goaziou]

ST <smntov@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Get into BBDB mode
> 2. add new record with the field:
> anniversary: HSivan 17, 5776 birthday
> (that is the way you specify a Hebrew date in diary by pressing "i h d"
> or Diary -> Insert Hebrew -> One time)
> 3. Get into Org mode
> 4. Generate Agenda view: C-c a a

I see.

AFAICT, Org expects anniversaries to be dates following "YYYY-MM-DD"
pattern. You may want to customize `org-bbdb-extract-date-fun' and
provide it a function to parse Hebrew dates.

Regards,