From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to use FILETAGS?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:24:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80EFEF74-D392-465D-81D4-448655DAD570@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wsl22u2.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
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Hmmm, this is different than changing the filter because it requires
re-creating the clock table. Useful, but will not happen now.... :-(
- Carsten
On Oct 18, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> Would it be possible to filter the data that creates the agenda clock
> table report by tags? This would be useful to limit the report to a
> specific project that spans multiple org files for instance.
>
> Right now I do a monthly agenda report for everything and cut and
> paste
> the result to get the details I need for a particular project - if I
> could just limit the display to a specific tag and have the report
> only
> include clock times for that tag then this would be much easier for me
> to deal with.
>
> e.g.
>
> | Key | Detail |
> |------------------+---------------------------------------|
> | C-c a a | Go to agenda |
> | m | Display agenda for this month |
> | R | Display clock report for everything |
> | / TAB projecttag | Limit display to specific project tag |
>
> and have the resulting clock report only include the filtered tasks
> and
> their clock times.
>
> I would find this very useful but don't let me create new work for you
> if it's not easy/fun :)
>
> Thanks for org-mode!
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
>
>
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> Hi Manish,
>>
>> I very much like the idea to add an indicator to the agenda mode
>> line,
>> and will do that.
>>
>> You said that you can filter an already filtered view. This is only
>> partially correct. If you do that, it is not so that you will
>> further
>> filter down the current list. Instead, a new filter will be applied
>> to the original list. At first I had it in fact implemented in a way
>> that several filters could be used in a row, but John Wiegley (how
>> asked for this feature) convinced me that the current convention is
>> better.
>>
>> What this feature really does is saving you the definition of
>> different agenda commands selecting for specific tasks. Instead, you
>> can now create one view and then filter it for different tags.
>>
>> We could implement filtering for several tags, but I am not sure if
>> this will be really so useful.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Manish wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>>> Manish writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> This works for me. I added
>>>>>>
>>>>>> #+FILETAGS: :Personal:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to the top of one of my org files, hit C-c C-c on the line to
>>>>>> reinitialize and then match tags with Personal as the target with
>>>>>>
>>>>>> C-c a m Personal RET
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and it lists all of the tasks in my org file including top-level
>>>>>> tasks.
>>>>>> The tasks do now show :Personal: in the display but using T
>>> on any tasks
>>>>>> shows the tag is inherited.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hit T on a task 4 levels deep and it includes the Personal tag.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It also works with
>>>>>>
>>>>>> #+FILETAGS: Personal
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Bernt. It works this way for me as well. I guess I should
>>>>> be
>>>>> able to mimic similar behaviour by restricting agenda to that
>>>>> specific
>>>>> buffer as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> But does it (task filtering based on tags using "/") work while
>>>>> you
>>>>> are in agenda view?
>>>>
>>>> Yes this works for me. / TAB <tagname> works even if tagname is
>>>> not in
>>>> org-tag-alist. Some of my (new) FILETAGS are still in my org-tag-
>>>> alist
>>>> so I can just filter with the quick-keys but for the ones that are
>>>> not
>>>> the / TAB <tagname> works fine.
>>>>
>>>> I tested this with C-a a t to show all my todo keyword tasks
>>>> without
>>>> scheduled dates and then used / to filter that list down to some
>>>> specific FILETAG tagname.
>>>
>>> Finally, agenda filtering on tags works for me. Unfortunately, I am
>>> not sure if it was an update, tweak or some other tinkering that
>>> fixed
>>> it but it works beautifully. It is now one of my favourite
>>> features.
>>> I did not expect but was pleasently surprised to find that it
>>> allowed
>>> filtering an already filtered view. Carsten also fixed tab
>>> completion
>>> of tags. Sweet.
>>>
>>> Will it be possible/useful to add some kind of indication to
>>> modeline
>>> showing that filtering is in effect and the filters applied (may be
>>> like "(Org Agenda Day Diary Filtered: P, t)")? But I love it even
>>> without it.
>>>
>>> -- Manish
>>>
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-05 11:56 How to use FILETAGS? Manish
2008-10-07 15:06 ` Manish
2008-10-07 16:28 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-07 17:30 ` Manish
2008-10-07 18:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-07 18:16 ` Manish
2008-10-09 15:13 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-11 11:12 ` Manish
2008-10-11 19:13 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-18 11:46 ` Manish
2008-10-18 13:16 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-18 13:34 ` Manish
2008-10-18 18:08 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-21 6:24 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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