Multiple files and auto-updating

Multiple files and auto-updating

[Jason Guiditta]

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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 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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Re: Multiple files and auto-updating

[Carsten Dominik]

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?

- 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

Re: Multiple files and auto-updating

[Jason Guiditta]

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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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>>
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>

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