Re: Multiple files and auto-updating

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

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