How to collect status of all checkboxes in lower subtrees

How to collect status of all checkboxes in lower subtrees

[Rainer Stengele]

Hi!

I have a headline with several sub headlines and sub items in lists.
Scattered all over I have checkboxes.
I would very much like to collect and see the overall status of unchecked checkboxes.


Example:

* project
** subproject 1
- [ ] todo 1
- [X] todo 2
- [ ] todo 3
*** sub subproject 1
- [ ] todo 1
- [ ] todo 2
- [X] todo 3
...


I would like to see

* project [2/6] ...


Is there a way to achieve this?
I already know about  org-hierarchical-todo-statistics and  org-hierarchical-checkbox-statistics.

Thanks,
Rainer

Re: How to collect status of all checkboxes in lower subtrees

[Eric S Fraga]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I have a headline with several sub headlines and sub items in lists.
> Scattered all over I have checkboxes.
> I would very much like to collect and see the overall status of unchecked checkboxes.

Not sure you can do what you want.  However, if you change the checkbox
lists to headlines with TODOs, what you want is possible:

#+begin_src org
  ,* project [2/6]
  ,** [1/3] subproject 1
  ,*** TODO todo 1
  ,*** DONE todo 2
  ,*** TODO todo 3
  ,** [1/3] sub subproject 1
  ,*** TODO todo 1
  ,*** TODO todo 2
  ,*** DONE todo 3
#+end_src
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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.2.1-76-g5afd5d

Re: How to collect status of all checkboxes in lower subtrees

[Rainer Stengele]

Am 10.10.2013 18:05, schrieb Eric S Fraga:
> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a headline with several sub headlines and sub items in lists.
>> Scattered all over I have checkboxes.
>> I would very much like to collect and see the overall status of unchecked checkboxes.
> 
> Not sure you can do what you want.  However, if you change the checkbox
> lists to headlines with TODOs, what you want is possible:
> 
> #+begin_src org
>   ,* project [2/6]
>   ,** [1/3] subproject 1
>   ,*** TODO todo 1
>   ,*** DONE todo 2
>   ,*** TODO todo 3
>   ,** [1/3] sub subproject 1
>   ,*** TODO todo 1
>   ,*** TODO todo 2
>   ,*** DONE todo 3
> #+end_src
> 
Thank you Eric,
until now TODOs for me always seemed to be a bit heavyweight because of the headline needed.
I wonder how people are working.
Do you use checkboxes a lot or prefer TODOs even for simple subtasks?

I find it disturbing to have to open a new headline just for a simple task.
This forces me to continue with TODOs (= headlines) else all subitems will belong to the preceding headline.

Any best practice or comment?

Thanks,
Rainer

Re: How to collect status of all checkboxes in lower subtrees

[Eric S Fraga]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:

[...]

> Thank you Eric,
> until now TODOs for me always seemed to be a bit heavyweight because of the headline needed.
> I wonder how people are working.
> Do you use checkboxes a lot or prefer TODOs even for simple subtasks?

Yes, I use headlines for all tasks, no matter how small.  However, I do
group them under more general headlines in some cases.

But there are many different uses out there, I'm sure!

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.2.1-86-gbe3dad