From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com>,
emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet FR
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:43:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljd5twka.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878w95sym0.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Dan Davison's message of "Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:44:23 -0400")
Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> Hi Russell,
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Russell Adams wrote:
>>
>>> Fellow Org'ers,
>>>
>>> I adore the text spreadsheet, however there's one feature Excel
>>> provides which I don't have in org.
>>>
>>> I often use Excel for "lists", where I can sort or narrow the data by
>>> specific criteria from a larger list.
>>>
>>> Would it be feasible to "narrow" a table by criteria on a specific
>>> field in between separators? Ie: only display those cells in field A
>>> if they are > 2, or if field B matches "Pick Me!".
>
> How about keeping a master table containing all the information, and
> then generating narrowed views as separate tables? The babel way to do
> this would be to have a block function "filter-table" (provided below)
> and then call it where needed:
This is fantastic. Thanks, Dan!
- Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-02 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-01 21:46 Spreadsheet FR Russell Adams
2010-04-02 7:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-02 8:16 ` Russell Adams
2010-04-02 13:00 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2010-04-04 7:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-04 16:46 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2010-04-04 20:19 ` Russell Adams
2010-04-05 2:39 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2010-04-02 14:44 ` Dan Davison
2010-04-02 14:55 ` Russell Adams
2010-04-02 17:09 ` Russell Adams
2010-04-02 20:43 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-04-02 14:26 ` Matt Lundin
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