Re: Multiple column views for one file

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple column views for one file
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:06:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A51BC68A-EE7A-4258-8902-E942AC4626ED@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091231153124.63c14ad0@noeato>

Hi Thomas,

On Dec 31, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Thomas Leitner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if org-mode supports having multiple column views for one
> file currently but I did not find a way to do the following.
>
> What I have is a journal file in org-mode in which I record, for
> example, films I have seen, books I have read and kilometres I have
> run. All of these entries have properties based on their type, for
> example, films have the properties Genre, Year and Director. Now I
> would like to get a sparse tree for all entries tagged with `film` and
> use a special column view for the films. However, when I define the
> #+COLUMNS variable at the top, this procedure only works for films,  
> and
> not for books or other entry types which have different properties.
>
> Therefore it would be nice to be able to define several column views
> and the possibility to switch between them. It is currently possible  
> to
> disable column view by pressing `q` when the cursor is on a head line
> in column view. It should probably be no problem to add another hotkey
> like `s` for switching to a different column view. The different  
> column
> views could be defined like this:
>
> #+COLUMNS: films %70ITEM(Details) %TAGS(Context) %Genre %Year  
> %Director
> #+COLUMNS: books %70ITEM(Details) %TAGS(Context) %Author %Year %Pages

Not a bad idea, but pretty troublesome to implement, because
column view allows you to change the columns format which
then makes it harder to determine where to make the changes.

For now, you can just put several lines into the buffer and
change the order - but I do realize that this is not the most
convenient solution.

I am not implementing this - unless we find more people
who can bring forward a good use case for this.

- Carsten

>
> It seems that org-mode currently ignores the column view names  
> ("films"
> and "books") so this would be backwards compatible.
>
> I'm still at the beginning of learning Elisp, so I'm not able to
> implement this myself and would like to know if others find this
> proposal useful and if it could be implemented?
>
> Best regards,
>  Thomas
>
>
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- Carsten