[Feature Request] Show properties in agenda

[Feature Request] Show properties in agenda

[Philipp Haselwarter]

Hi Org,

Would it be possible to display entry properties in the agenda? Much
like `org-agenda-entry-text-mode', but with a filter variable.

Then you could for example set `org-agenda-entry-properties' to
"LOCATION" or "\\`\\(?:LOCATION\\|SOURCE\\)\\'" and have those
properties displayed in the agenda buffer.

Idk what facilities to extract properties org provides, so maybe
iterating over a list of properties for the currently visible entries
would be easier than regexp-matching, but you get the idea.

I'd love to see this functionality in org-mode!

Regards,

-- 
Philipp Haselwarter

Re: [Feature Request] Show properties in agenda

[Bernt Hansen]

Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Org,
>
> Would it be possible to display entry properties in the agenda? Much
> like `org-agenda-entry-text-mode', but with a filter variable.
>
> Then you could for example set `org-agenda-entry-properties' to
> "LOCATION" or "\\`\\(?:LOCATION\\|SOURCE\\)\\'" and have those
> properties displayed in the agenda buffer.
>
> Idk what facilities to extract properties org provides, so maybe
> iterating over a list of properties for the currently visible entries
> would be easier than regexp-matching, but you get the idea.
>
> I'd love to see this functionality in org-mode!
>
> Regards,

Have you looked at column view?  I think it can display properties...

Regards,
Bernt

Re: [Feature Request] Show properties in agenda

[Tomas Grigera]

Hi Philipp,

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 21:59, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Hi Org,
>>
>> Would it be possible to display entry properties in the agenda? Much
>> like `org-agenda-entry-text-mode', but with a filter variable.
>>
>> Then you could for example set `org-agenda-entry-properties' to
>> "LOCATION" or "\\`\\(?:LOCATION\\|SOURCE\\)\\'" and have those
>> properties displayed in the agenda buffer.
>>

I wrote a custom agenda command that puts a property of my choice in
place of :CATEGORY:. I'm far from an elisp hacker so I expect it is
rather clumsy, and it would need tweaking to do exactly what you want,
but I can share if you're interested.

Column view, as Bernt suggests, can also display any property you
what, but it does so as an overlay.

Tomas

Re: [Feature Request] Show properties in agenda

[Philipp Haselwarter]

column view does it, thanks!

-- 
Philipp Haselwarter

Re: [Feature Request] Show properties in agenda

[Myles English]

Tomas,

>> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:01:38 -0300, Tomas Grigera said:
  > I wrote a custom agenda command that puts a property of my choice in
  > place of :CATEGORY:. I'm far from an elisp hacker so I expect it is
  > rather clumsy, and it would need tweaking to do exactly what you
  > want, but I can share if you're interested.

I'd like to have a look at your custom command please.  I may be able to
use it as a starting point for something else so it needn't be complete.

Thanks,

Myles