how to sort in the column view?

how to sort in the column view?

[Marcel van der Boom]

Hi,

I have a custom agenda command which produces a list of items which are
scheduled, i.e. have a SCHEDULED or a DEADLINE property. Producing that
column view is now defined  in 'org-agenda-custom-commands' as:

[...]
("c" "Scheduled overview" tags "SCHEDULED<>\"\"|DEADLINE<>\"\"/TODO" 
     (
     (org-agenda-overriding-header "SCHEDULED") 
     (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t) 
     (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%65ITEM %25Responsible
%SCHEDULED %DEADLINE %TAGS") (org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t))) 
[...]

What I would like to do is to sort on the SCHEDULED and/or DEADLINE
column. 

I tried using org-agenda-sorting-strategy on the custom view,
but that does not seem to work. 

Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction for sorting on the
SCHEDULED column (property)?

Thanks,
marcel

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how to sort in the column view?

[Marcel van der Boom]

Hi,

I have a custom agenda command which produces a list of items which are
scheduled, i.e. have a SCHEDULED or a DEADLINE property. Producing that
column view is now defined  in 'org-agenda-custom-commands' as:

[...]
("c" "Scheduled overview" tags "SCHEDULED<>\"\"|DEADLINE<>\"\"/TODO" 
     (
     (org-agenda-overriding-header "SCHEDULED") 
     (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t) 
     (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%65ITEM %25Responsible
%SCHEDULED %DEADLINE %TAGS") (org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t))) 
[...]

What I would like to do is to sort on the SCHEDULED and/or DEADLINE
column. 

I tried using org-agenda-sorting-strategy on the custom view,
but that does not seem to work. 

Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction for sorting on the
SCHEDULED column (property)?

Thanks,
marcel

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Re: how to sort in the column view?

[Marcel van der Boom]

On Fri 18-Jun-2010 17:25
Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a custom agenda command which produces a list of items which are
>scheduled, i.e. have a SCHEDULED or a DEADLINE property. Producing that
>column view is now defined  in 'org-agenda-custom-commands' as:
>
>[...]
>("c" "Scheduled overview" tags "SCHEDULED<>\"\"|DEADLINE<>\"\"/TODO" 
>     (
>     (org-agenda-overriding-header "SCHEDULED") 
>     (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t) 
>     (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%65ITEM %25Responsible
>%SCHEDULED %DEADLINE %TAGS") (org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t))) 
>[...]
>
>What I would like to do is to sort on the SCHEDULED and/or DEADLINE
>column. 
>
>I tried using org-agenda-sorting-strategy on the custom view,
>but that does not seem to work. 
>
>Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction for sorting on the
>SCHEDULED column (property)?
>

No ideas?

marcel

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Re: how to sort in the column view?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Marcel van der Boom wrote:

> On Fri 18-Jun-2010 17:25
> Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a custom agenda command which produces a list of items which  
>> are
>> scheduled, i.e. have a SCHEDULED or a DEADLINE property. Producing  
>> that
>> column view is now defined  in 'org-agenda-custom-commands' as:
>>
>> [...]
>> ("c" "Scheduled overview" tags "SCHEDULED<>\"\"|DEADLINE<>\"\"/TODO"
>>    (
>>    (org-agenda-overriding-header "SCHEDULED")
>>    (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)
>>    (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%65ITEM %25Responsible
>> %SCHEDULED %DEADLINE %TAGS") (org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t)))
>> [...]
>>
>> What I would like to do is to sort on the SCHEDULED and/or DEADLINE
>> column.
>>
>> I tried using org-agenda-sorting-strategy on the custom view,
>> but that does not seem to work.
>>
>> Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction for sorting on the
>> SCHEDULED column (property)?

How about you start by showing us what you have tried with the sorting  
strategy?

- Carsten

Re: how to sort in the column view?

[Marcel van der Boom]

On Tue 22-Jun-2010 12:38
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> ("c" "Scheduled overview" tags "SCHEDULED<>\"\"|DEADLINE<>\"\"/TODO"
>>>    (
>>>    (org-agenda-overriding-header "SCHEDULED")
>>>    (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)
>>>    (org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%65ITEM %25Responsible
>>> %SCHEDULED %DEADLINE %TAGS") (org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks t)))
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> What I would like to do is to sort on the SCHEDULED and/or DEADLINE
>>> column.
>>>
>>> I tried using org-agenda-sorting-strategy on the custom view,
>>> but that does not seem to work.
>>>
>>> Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction for sorting on
>>> the SCHEDULED column (property)?
>
>How about you start by showing us what you have tried with the
>sorting strategy?

What I have tried is to change the configuration of the custom command
to have a line '(org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (alpha-up)))' as
the first line.

I was expecting this to have the effect to sort the column view by
the item text (my first column), but it did not seem to change anything
at all. This made me wonder if i was on the right track.

I presume if the alpha sorting works, i could try to write a custom
sort on the SCHEDULED/DEADLINE property?

marcel

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