From: Samuel Loury <konubinix@gmail.com>
To: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hiding "blocked" TODO items
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:33:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87384cpf36.fsf@konixwork.incubateur.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twws8w3y.fsf@vostro.rath.org>
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Dear Nikolaus,
Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
> Is there a way to have TODO items "blocking" each other?
>
> For example, if I have this document:
>
> * TODO Pay water
> :PROPERTIES:
> :blocked-on: checks
> :END:
> * TODO Pay electricity
> :PROPERTIES:
> :blocked-on: checks
> :END:
> * TODO Get new checks
> :PROPERTIES:
> :id: checks
> :END:
>
> Then I'd like the first two TODO items not to show up in the agenda
> until the third one is DONE (but I don't much care if the items can be
> manually switched to DONE or not).
>
> I looked at org-depend.el but as far as I can tell, it only allows to
> set up chains of dependencies, i.e. I could have "Pay Water" and "Pay
> electricity" in state NEXT, and have a trigger in "Get new checks" that
> would switch one, but not both, of the NEXT items to TODO.
>
> Do I understand that correctly? Is there some other way to achieve what
> I want?
I think that the dependency could be declared using org-depend but with
the BLOCKER keyword instead of the TRIGGER one. To allow the elements to
still be set to DONE, you could use the NOBLOCKING keyword.
Then, in the agenda view, you could use the org-agenda-skip-function
variable and put something like org-depend-block-todo that would
indicate to skip the blocked items. Sorry to be to lazy to write the
code here...
The outline would look like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* TODO Pay water
:PROPERTIES:
:BLOCKER: checks
:NOBLOCKING: t
:END:
* TODO Pay electricity
:PROPERTIES:
:BLOCKER: checks
:NOBLOCKING: t
:END:
* TODO Get new checks
:PROPERTIES:
:id: checks
:END:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Having at the same time BLOCKER and NOBLOCKING appears a bit confusing
to me. May be it is not a so good solution and an org-mode guru will
probably correct me :-).
Hoping this was useful.
Best regards,
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