Re: checklist and org-after-todo-statistics-hook

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

On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:14 PM, David Ellis wrote:

> I have the following in my .emacs file to automatically update the  
> todo state of a parent todo based on the number of completed children.
>
> (defun org-summary-todo (n-done n-not-done)
>  "Switch entry to DONE when all subentries are done, to TODO  
> otherwise."
>  (this is an unquoted list)
>  (let (org-log-done org-log-states)   ; turn off logging
>    (org-todo (if (= n-not-done 0)
>                  "DONE"
>                (if (= n-done 0) "TODO" "STARTED")))))
>
> (add-hook 'org-after-todo-statistics-hook 'org-summary-todo)
>
> I have started using checklists and notices that this hook does not  
> get called when the statistics cookie is updated.
>
> For example, in the following, the parent todo state gets updated as  
> the statistics cookie is updated:
>
> * STARTED Project 1 [1/3]
> ** DONE task 1
> ** TODO task 2
> ** TODO task 3
>
> In the following example, the statistics are updated but the hook is  
> not called
>
> * TODO Project 1 [1/3]
>    - [X] task 1
>    - [ ] task 2
>    - [ ] task 3
>
> Is it possible to change it to call the hook for the second example?

Hi Dave, there is a separate for this situation:

org-checkbox-statistics-hook

HTH

- Carsten