From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Brand Subject: Re: Mixing org-mode tables with outlining? Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:16:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN35j-0003LC-10 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 09:16:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN35i-00049X-07 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 09:16:38 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:34553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN35h-00049P-S8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 09:16:37 -0400 Received: by eyd9 with SMTP id 9so914983eyd.0 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 06:16:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Chris Barber Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 13:24, Chris Barber wrote: > Would it still be possible to do calculations within the heading? > Eg once I have filled in all my headings and properties, how could I make > the value of the last property for each heading equal to the average of the > previous 3 columns? Yes, Org column view is equipped to do all kinds of aggregations like to calculate the average/sum/min/max/... of the _lower_ level columns, see "{summary-type}" in: http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-attributes.html#Column-attributes To get an idea of the power of column view I would also recommend Carsten's talk at 00:18:23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM#t=18m23s and Russell's talk at about 00:54:00 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2572085463585491742 Michael