From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: How to extract TODOs from date-tree Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:20:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3xscgjr.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57390) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xj9Va-0006kl-AO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:20:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xj9VS-0002DS-DA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:20:34 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xj9VS-0002Cn-08 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:20:26 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xj9VM-0007Jy-MG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:20:20 +0100 Received: from e178190211.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.190.211]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:20:20 +0100 Received: from tjolitz by e178190211.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:20:20 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Jay Iyer writes: Hi, > I have my Org files set up as date-trees containing a mix of notes, > tasks and projects. I now have a need to generate a list of projects > and tasks filed under specific date-tree or in a range of dates. Is it > possible to get this listing from the date-trees if the entries > themselves don't have date/time in timestamps or in properties > settings? I couldn't find a solution in the archives. Please advise. > Thank you. what is a date tree? This: ,---- | * <2014-10-28 Di> `---- ? If the date-tree is the parent and has a timestamp, then the entries are part of the contents of parent, and you can use this function to map over the parents ,----[ C-h f org-element-map RET ] | org-element-map is a compiled Lisp function in `org-element.el'. | | (org-element-map DATA TYPES FUN &optional INFO FIRST-MATCH | NO-RECURSION WITH-AFFILIATED) | | Map a function on selected elements or objects. [...] `---- and this to get their contents ,----[ C-h f org-element-contents RET ] | org-element-contents is a compiled Lisp function in `org-element.el'. | | (org-element-contents ELEMENT) | | Extract contents from an ELEMENT. `---- and then 'org-element-property' and 'org-element-put-property' to get and set timestamp info from the parent and any other info from the child entries. -- cheers, Thorsten