Re: Bug: Estimate effort ranges do not work [9.1.3 (9.1.3-elpa @ /home/francisv/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20171116/)]

["Francisco Velázquez" <francisv@ifi.uio.no>]

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Hi Nicolas

If I use a property name other than 'Effort', there column for '{est+}'
is empty.  My question remains:

How to use '{est+}'?

I attach the example file.

Thank you.

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#+COLUMNS: %Item %Effort{est+}

* Estimated effort
  :PROPERTIES:
  :Effort_low-high:   4-12
  :END:

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Francisco

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> Hello,
>
> Francisco Velázquez <francisv@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
>> 1. What exactly did you do?
>>
>>    I try to use the low-high estimates with the column attribute {est+}
>>    as documented in http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-attributes.html.
>>
>>    For that, I tried to assign low and high effort values as in
>>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/93505/focus=93514.  The
>>    formats I tried:
>>
>>    :Effort: +4.0-12.0
>>    :Effort: 4.0-12.0
>>    :Effort: 4-12
>>    :Effort: 4:00-12:00
>>    :Effort: 4:00-1.5d
>>    :Effort_Low: 4:00
>>    :Effort_High: 1.5d
>
> EFFORT is a somewhat special property that expects its value to be
> a number, mainly for ordering in agenda view. `M-x org-lint' warns about
> it.
>
> You can use low-high estimates with any other property, e.g.
>
>   :Whatever: 4-12
>
> Regards,


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Francisco Velázquez