Linked tasks

Linked tasks

[Fletcher Charest]

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Dear all,

I was wondering if there was a way to link the status of two tasks in an
agenda file (or even across multiple agenda files). Sometimes, a single
task (in my case, updating my CV) might be a useful step in two different
projects. If the tasks is marked DONE in one project (in one subtree), I
would like the other one to be marked DONE as well. Is it possible or even
implemented?

Cheers,

FC

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Re: Linked tasks

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Fletcher Charest <fletcher.charest@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to link the status of two tasks in
> an agenda file (or even across multiple agenda files). Sometimes, a
> single task (in my case, updating my CV) might be a useful step in
> two different projects. If the tasks is marked DONE in one project
> (in one subtree), I would like the other one to be marked DONE as
> well. Is it possible or even implemented?
>
> Cheers,
>
> FC

There's an org-depend package in the contrib directory that's supposed
to do this, but I haven't looked at it before... Vanilla Org only does
dependencies within the same subtree.

E

Re: Linked tasks

[Fletcher Charest]

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Hi Eric,

Thank you, I will have a closer look at org-depend, although it seems to me
that it's more 'depend' in the sense of 'this task has to be done for this
other task to be doable'. But I only had a glimpse on the code.

Regards,

FC


On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:

> Fletcher Charest <fletcher.charest@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I was wondering if there was a way to link the status of two tasks in
> > an agenda file (or even across multiple agenda files). Sometimes, a
> > single task (in my case, updating my CV) might be a useful step in
> > two different projects. If the tasks is marked DONE in one project
> > (in one subtree), I would like the other one to be marked DONE as
> > well. Is it possible or even implemented?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > FC
>
> There's an org-depend package in the contrib directory that's supposed
> to do this, but I haven't looked at it before... Vanilla Org only does
> dependencies within the same subtree.
>
> E
>
>
>

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Re: Linked tasks

[Pete Ley]

> it seems to me that it's more 'depend' in the sense of 'this task has
> to be done for this other task to be doable'.

IIRC, the TRIGGER property in org-depend.el allows you to change the
state of another tree when the current one is marked done. I imagine you
could use it to have a clone task in another tree that is TRIGGERed to
change to done when the other is. 

Example

* Some tree
** TODO Update CV
   :PROPERTIES:
   :TRIGGER: cv-clone(DONE)
   :END:

* Some other tree
** TODO Update CV clone
   :PROPERTIES:
   :ID: cv-clone
   :END: