From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Multiple files and auto-updating Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:30:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53556 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OZ8bQ-0003LT-7J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:30:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ8bN-0002ml-8G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:30:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:63847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ8bN-0002mV-1H for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:30:45 -0400 Received: by eydd26 with SMTP id d26so38178eyd.0 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:30:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jason Guiditta Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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