Re: Displaying day-resources (or a secondary time-line)

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

Hi Sven,

On May 8, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Sven Bretfeld wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm looking for a way to display "dates" in the Agenda View which are
> not appointments but, in GTD-speak, belong to the "availability of
> resources".
>
> That's a little too abstract. A concrete example. Say, your  
> secretary is
> on duty only Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:00 to 12:00 and Fridays  
> from
> 8:00 to 10:00. This is a resource that enables or disables you to do
> certain things. So you want to see these dates in your Day Agenda  
> View,
> but not mixed with your own appointments. You'd rather have this
> information at the end of the Day Agenda, maybe in a different color
> and/or separated by a line, like this:
>
> Montag     10 Mai 2010 W19
>  Office:          10:00-12:00 Meeting with the Boss
>  Lunch:           12:00-13:00 Meet Jens in the Pub
>  Teaching:        14:00-16:00 Lecture
>  Project_X:       16:00-18:00 Preparation Meeting
>  Leisure:         20:15       Cinema
>  ------------------------------------- /from here in a different  
> color/
>  Office:          8:00-12:00  Secretary is present
>  Family:          14:00-20:00 Mary will not be at home
>  On_Holiday:      Ina
>
> The last entry, which says that Ina is on holiday today, can  
> principally
> be solved as:
>
> ** Holidays
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :CATEGORY: On_Holiday
>   :END:
> %%(diary-block 05 05 2010 14 05 2010) Ina

You can also use diary sexp entries to also do the others, by checking  
for weekdays. See the examples in the FAQ

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#diary-sexp-in-org-files

For example (untested)

** Secretary present 8:00-12:00
    <%%(and (member (calendar-day-of-week date) '(1 3)))>

As for sorting, I guess the easiest would be use a special tag and  
then a custom sorting strategy function in org-agenda-cmp-user-defined  
to sort these to the end of the agenda display.

HTH

- Carsten