From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Stegemann Subject: Import efforts Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:24:20 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REIYF-0006Fn-Fc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:30:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REIYE-0004oW-1F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:30:11 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REIYD-0004o6-Qw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:30:09 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1REIYA-0008Mc-PP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:30:06 +0200 Received: from london.zeitform.net ([146.140.213.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:30:06 +0200 Received: from stegemann by london.zeitform.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:30:06 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dear all, I'm looking for an easy way to incorporate efforts from other, non-org users into an org file. Assume you do project accounting using org. Recording and displaying the efforts /you/ have spent on the different items is no problem thanks to the clocking mechanism. However, I'd like to incorporate efforts that have been spent on delegated tasks, as well. Co-workers not using org can usually give me something like `It took me n hours to complete task x on day y' or `I've spent n hours between day y and z on task x' (unless they use a time-tracking tool with export function, but that's a different story). Is there a better solution to import this kind of data than to create `fake' logbook entries, may it be manually or with help of functions? Ulf