Re: Multiple files and auto-updating

[Jason Guiditta <jason.guiditta@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> from your description it is not really clear to me what your setup is.
>
>
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Jason Guiditta wrote:
>
>  Hello, apologies if these questions are documented somewhere (in fact, I
>> bet they are, just haven't been able to find them).  I am a newcomer to both
>> orgmode and emacs in general, so I am still on the steep side of the
>> learning curve.  I have spent several days poking around the documentation,
>> watching some screencasts, looking at gmane, etc with no success solving my
>> issue, so I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> The group I work with is using orgmode to track tasks for our projects.
>>  This is currently in one big file (with various tags) that has at the
>> bottom a dynamic table
>>
>
> What do you mean by "dynamic table"?  Can you show us the relevant section
> of the file?
>
> Hi Carsten, sure, here is the wrapping chunk of code  (sorry I used the
wrong word, from page 69 of the manual, what I meant to say was 'Dynamic
Block'):

#+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 3 :id 85c58add-2c45-48d5-bff3-6b4cd4f5e20
  <output>
#+TBLFM:
#+END:

Hope that makes the rest of my question more clear, thanks for the response!

-j

- Carsten
>
>  that we periodically export to html and put up on a server for easier
>> viewing of the current state of tasks.  We store this project file in a git
>> repo.  I have been asked to do two major things and two minor (at least in
>> importance) things to streamline this.
>>
>> == Major ==
>> 1. Move this dynamic table out into its own file to reduce the size of the
>> main project file (I am not the only one in the group not that familiar with
>> emacs --yet).
>> 2. Have this table be updated/exported automatically when saving the
>> project file.
>>
>> From what I have seen, dynamic tables are meant to just be another view of
>> the data in a given file, so I am wondering if this is even the right
>> approach.  The update/export seems likely to be some org-mode post-save
>> command.  If this is the case, guess I'll have to figure out how to write
>> some elisp  :-/
>>
>> == Minor ==
>> 1. After automatically updating/exporting the table file, upload that to
>> our server as well.
>> 2. Commit the file to git from the buffer (pretty sure this is just a
>> matter of using the git mode I have seen mentioned, but thought I'd throw it
>> out there in case there is another suggestion).
>>
>> Hopefully these questions are reasonable and I haven't missed obvious
>> directions on how to do these things.  I appreciate any assistance from
>> members of the list.  (Also, really liking orgmode/emacs in general so far,
>> fwiw).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -j
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> - Carsten
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