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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Kel Chan <ktc7@sfu.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: property with multiple values, or suggestions for a course planning system
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:13:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft9Z8KAXaUpcUNaD0MouNMUVE8yd0xC2QmKeAP_1BdrK5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2070547464.7395115.1374473025988.JavaMail.root@jaguar7.sfu.ca>

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On Jul 22, 2013 1:04 AM, "Kel Chan" <ktc7@sfu.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> disclaimer: new to org and emacs.
>
> question: How can I associate more than one value to a property?
>
> I'm implementing a course planning tool b/c the one provided by my
university sucks.
>
> Ideally, each course offered is a second level heading with a property
"offering" with multiple possible values: fall, spring, odd spring, even
summer, etc. And similar to "offering", each heading also have "prereq" and
"designation" property.
>

As an alternative, what about tags?
Or

:spring: t
:fall: t
Etc...

Instead of needing it all in one property drawer?

Just an idea,
John

> I would like to create a sparse-tree by searching for some property to
view a tree of courses and plan accordingly. The problem is that each
property can only have one value.
>
> Is property the best way to implement this system? If not, can you
suggest something else?
>
> Thanks,
> kel
>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2033281615.7374702.1374471018405.JavaMail.root@jaguar7.sfu.ca>
2013-07-22  6:03 ` property with multiple values, or suggestions for a course planning system Kel Chan
2013-07-22  7:57   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-07-22 13:13   ` John Hendy [this message]

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