Re: Showing todos with inherited tags in agenda views

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@real-time.com> writes:

> I hope that this isn't too much of an FAQ, but I searched the mailing
> list and couldn't find an answer (although I could find the question
> being asked):
>
> Is it possible to tailor the agenda view so that when it displays the
> TODO items it shows those todo items with their *inherited* tags?
>
> My display seems to show only the tags directly applied to the items.
> This isn't so great for me, since I put my TODO items in multiple files,
> one for each project, and put at the * Tasks level in those files a tag
> corresponding to the project.  I'd really like to see those tags in the
> agenda view, so I know what project the TODOs belong to.

Hi Robert,

I use categories for this.  I have multiple org files (normally one per
project) but some files (like todo.org) are catch-all org files which
have multiple categories.

I set the category for a subtree using a property.

All of my project tasks are level 2 tasks so they have a level 1 parent
task for organizing things.  Such as

,----[ proj1.org ]
| * Support
|   :PROPERTIES:
|     :ARCHIVE: %s_archive::* Support
|     :CATEGORY: PROJ1
|   :END:
| ** TODO First Project
| ** TODO Second Project
`----

so all tasks in this project show up in the agenda in the 'PROJ1'
category.  You're free to set different categories for any subtree and I
find it very flexible.

This works great for me.

-Bernt