From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: What's the use of Column View? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:41:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <52D89C75FEE9444E8D9C016E3730098306CE9A@chsa1036.share.beluni.net> <87odblfer4.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFnim-0004B3-JZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:41:08 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFnik-00049m-Vu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:41:08 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFnik-00049S-RJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:41:06 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFnik-0006tg-R6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:41:07 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so504691ugf.48 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:41:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87odblfer4.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> 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: Bernt Hansen Cc: Carsten Dominik , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > "Egli Christian (KIRO 41)" writes: > >> There you go! A quick and simple way to get an overview. The power >> of column view stems from the fact that it lets you quickly and >> simply >> define hierarchical structures and then combine them with a tabular >> overview. >> >> Hope this helps >> > > Thanks Christian! I haven't played with column view much yet but this > is a great application I can use immediately. > > Since you're posting estimated times on your tasks I'm wondering if > there's a way to get the clocked summary times for each task in the > column view table as well (same values as C-c C-x C-d display). > > I'd _love_ to see my estimate task times and actual times side by side > in the column view per task. That will help me tune my estimates much > faster. > > This would be very useful for me to check how my estimates are doing > compared to actual time spent on tasks. Is there some magical > incantation to do this? :) In 5.19 you will be able to use a special read-only column CLOCKSUM that will contain the total time spent in a subtree. - Carsten