From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Saving column views in agenda
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:55:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <954B808C-9260-4A59-B4DF-943901DE9D87@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i664jhe.fsf@gmail.com>
On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Thanks so much. The updated org-collector works beautifully. This
>> is a
>> very nice way to perform calculations on subsets of data. I don't
>> suppose there's any chance of generating a table that contains only
>> the items in the subset (e.g., only items in which string= spendtype
>> "food")?
>>
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Good idea. I've added a :conds parameter which can do just that, see
> the example below. Notice that :conds should be a list of tests, not
> just one single test, if this proves awkward it would be easy to add
> a :cond parameter which doesn't require a list.
>
> One issue with this setup, is that it's not clear what a stable way
> would be to specify the #+TBLFM line. Since the size of the table
> could
> vary the field in which the sum should be placed could move around.
> With the table below a #+TBLFM line like this
>
> #+TBLFM: @II+1$2=vsum(@I+1..@II-1)
>
> would work, but currently org-table does not allow the @I style
> references before the = sign in the table formula. I wonder if this
> would be hard difficult to change?
Hi Eric,
I do like this syntax, and I am sure that would be possible,
but I do not oversee it, it would be quite complicated and
would have to be changed in multiple locations, messing with
well-tested regular expressions etc. I would need
significant quiet time, which I don't hve right now.
See also my reply to Matt's message.
- Carsten
>
>
> Thanks -- Eric
>
>
>
> * Example
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :id "december" :conds ((string= spendtype
> "food")) :cols (ITEM amount)
> | "ITEM" | "amount" |
> |----------------------------------+----------|
> | "Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]" | 56.77 |
> | "Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]" | 30.67 |
> |----------------------------------+----------|
> | | 87.44 |
> #+TBLFM: @4$2=vsum(@I+1..@II-1)
> #+END:
>
> ** December Spending
> :PROPERTIES:
> :ID: december
> :END:
>
> *** Week One
> **** Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]
> :PROPERTIES:
> :amount: 56.77
> :spendtype: food
> :END:
> **** Athletic club [2008-12-02 Tue]
> :PROPERTIES:
> :amount: 75.00
> :spendtype: health
> :END:
> *** Week Two
> **** Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]
> :PROPERTIES:
> :amount: 30.67
> :spendtype: food
> :END:
>
>
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 5:52 Saving column views in agenda Matthew Lundin
2008-12-08 9:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-08 15:51 ` mdl
2008-12-09 7:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-09 21:55 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-11 15:45 ` Eric Schulte
[not found] ` <87y6ymirmv.fsf@fastmail.fm>
2008-12-11 19:09 ` Eric Schulte
2008-12-11 21:34 ` mdl
2008-12-12 8:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-12 13:21 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-12 11:00 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-12 11:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-12 0:25 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-12 7:55 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
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