Partial tags match in custom agenda?

Partial tags match in custom agenda?

[Paul Mead]

Hi

I have a convention in my org file which uses @name as a gtd-type
'agenda' item, so if an action is related to Liz, I tag it with @liz for
example. 

Is there any way of matching that '@' in setting up a custom agenda
view? I'd like if possible to have a block agenda view which lists all
of my @liz, @bob, @joe - type items in one view, rather than having to
maintain a list of all the possible names in the block agenda setup.

Thanks
Paul

Re: Partial tags match in custom agenda?

[Martin Pohlack]

Hi Paul,

Paul Mead wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a convention in my org file which uses @name as a gtd-type
> 'agenda' item, so if an action is related to Liz, I tag it with @liz for
> example. 
> 
> Is there any way of matching that '@' in setting up a custom agenda
> view? I'd like if possible to have a block agenda view which lists all
> of my @liz, @bob, @joe - type items in one view, rather than having to
> maintain a list of all the possible names in the block agenda setup.

You can do regexp matching on tags.  My agenda tags all start with ag_
(for people), agM_ (meetings) or agC_ (calls).

This snippet from my org-agenda-custom-commands shows how to use this:

    (tags "{^ag[MC]_.*}-maybe-TODO=\"\"-SCHEDULED>\"<today>\""
          ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Agendas (regular):")
           (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
            '(tag-up))
           (org-agenda-skip-function
            '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'regexp "^\\*+ \\(DONE\\|CANC\\|CONT\\|PROJ\\|MAYBE\\) "))))
    (tags "{^ag_.*}-maybe-TODO=\"\"-SCHEDULED>\"<today>\""
          ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Agendas (non-regular):")
           (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
            '(tag-up))
           (org-agenda-skip-function
            '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'regexp "^\\*+ \\(DONE\\|CANC\\|CONT\\|PROJ\\|MAYBE\\) "))))

Cheers,
Martin

Re: Partial tags match in custom agenda?

[Paul Mead]

Martin Pohlack <mp26@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> writes:

> Hi Paul,
>
> You can do regexp matching on tags.  My agenda tags all start with ag_
> (for people), agM_ (meetings) or agC_ (calls).
>
> This snippet from my org-agenda-custom-commands shows how to use this:
>
>     (tags "{^ag[MC]_.*}-maybe-TODO=\"\"-SCHEDULED>\"<today>\""
>           ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Agendas (regular):")
>            (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
>             '(tag-up))
>            (org-agenda-skip-function
>             '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'regexp "^\\*+ \\(DONE\\|CANC\\|CONT\\|PROJ\\|MAYBE\\) "))))
>     (tags "{^ag_.*}-maybe-TODO=\"\"-SCHEDULED>\"<today>\""
>           ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Agendas (non-regular):")
>            (org-agenda-sorting-strategy
>             '(tag-up))
>            (org-agenda-skip-function
>             '(org-agenda-skip-subtree-if 'regexp "^\\*+ \\(DONE\\|CANC\\|CONT\\|PROJ\\|MAYBE\\) "))))
>
> Cheers,
> Martin

Thanks Martin, this has been very useful - I didn't know about the
regexp thing, I'm sure I'm going to use it elsewhere!

Paul