Re: Custom Agenda that partially skips entries

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Ido Magal <ido@idomagal.com> writes:

> I'd appreciate assistance in constructing a custom agenda that
> accomplishes the following (if possible):
>
> 1. Block of week's agenda.
> 2. Block of "next" items that have no schedule ( items that don't
> show up in block 1 )
>
> This is my starting point:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       '(("n" "Next tasks"
> ((todo "next")))
> ("A" "agenda"
> ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-ndays 7)))
>  (todo "next")
>  ))
> ))
>
> The problem here is that I get duplicates because _all_ 'next' items
> show up in the second block.  I'd rather that only unscheduled items
> showed there.
>
> I thought that this would do it, but it fails:
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       '(("n" "Next tasks"
> ((todo "next")))
> ("A" "agenda"
> ((agenda "" ((org-agenda-ndays 7)))
>  ((todo "next")
>   (org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'deadline
> 'scheduled)))
>  ))
> ))
>
> Thanks in advance.

Hi Ido,

In the second block set the variable org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled to
either 'future or 'all to avoid listing items with a scheduled date.

This is part of my block agenda for next tasks:

   (tags-todo "-WAITING-CANCELLED/!NEXT|STARTED"
	      ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Available to Work on Now")
	       (org-agenda-skip-function 'bh/skip-projects)
	       (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future)
	       (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'future)
	       (org-tags-match-list-sublevels t)
	       (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
		'(effort-up category-keep))))

HTH,
Bernt