Bug: Appointments duration and effort sums in agenda column view [9.3.7 (release_9.3.7-700-ga1e5be @ ~/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)]

[Stanislav Vlasov <s.vlasov@uvt.nl>]

Dear org community,

It seems that adding appointment duration to efforts sum is not working for Agenda Column View. Setting `agenda-columns-add-appointments-to-effort-sum' does not affect that.

Looking at the org-colview.el code I think that the reason why column view in org agenda can not add entry duration to efforts (even when org-agenda-columns-add-appointments-to-effort-sum is set to t) is because the function org-columns--collect-values which is called on each org entry by org-agenda-columns cannot actually get the text property 'duration at the point where it tries to do that.

I proposed a temporary workaround as an answer to the related question at  Emacs StackExchange - https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/58875/how-do-i-add-appointments-to-effort-sum

Kind regards,
Stas

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 of 2020-05-19
Package: Org mode version 9.3.7 (release_9.3.7-700-ga1e5be @ ~/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)