From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subhan Michael Tindall Subject: Re: agenda events from table? Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:11:17 +0000 Message-ID: References: <55B729CC.3090002@aices.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e016347303ecb08051bef35ae Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34835) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZK4fQ-0008K7-0u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:11:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZK4fJ-0006JP-M0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:11:35 -0400 Received: from mail-vn0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c0f::236]:33775) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZK4fJ-0006Iv-Fz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:11:29 -0400 Received: by vnav141 with SMTP id v141so42576533vna.0 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 06:11:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55B729CC.3090002@aices.rwth-aachen.de> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Paolo Bientinesi , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --089e016347303ecb08051bef35ae Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 1:25 AM Paolo Bientinesi wrote: Hello, I am facing what seems to be a common situation, yet I can't find a way out. Imagine this scenario: A list of people, a number of fields/properties per person, and the date for a personal meeting. For convenience, I handle this information through tables. Example: | Name | Address | Sex | Rank | Date | |------+---------+-----+------+------------------------| | A | blah | M | 3 | <2015-07-30 Thu 10:00> | | B | | F | 10 | <2015-08-11 Tue 15:00> | | C | blah2 | | 13 | | | D | blah3 | M | 15 | <2015-09-28 Mon 07:00> | | | | | | | Question: How can I get the meetings (the Names) to show up as Agenda events? One of the successful approaches I tried is to use properties (instead of table columns), and edit via column view. However, this is significantly slower (for me) than using straight tables; also the column view is nice, but not as clean as a straight table. I tried to transpose a table into properties, but could not do that. Any help or suggestions, please? Thank you! -- Prof. Paolo Bientinesi, Ph.D. AICES, RWTH Aachen Agendas only pick up headlines, which don't exist inside tables. Your attempt using properties is about as close as you can get. Maybe you can build a custom table exporter and convert it to headlines, then build your agenda from that? --089e016347303ecb08051bef35ae Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 1:25 AM=C2=A0Paolo Bientinesi <pauldj@aices.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

Hello,

I am facing what seems to be a common situation, yet I can&#= 39;t find a way
out. Imagine this scenario: A list of people, a number of
fields/properties per person, and the date for a personal meeting.
For convenience, I handle this information through tables.
Example:

| Name | Address | Sex | Rank | Date=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0|
|------+---------+-----+------+------------------------|
| A=C2=A0 =C2=A0 | blah=C2=A0 =C2=A0 | M=C2=A0 =C2=A0|=C2=A0 =C2=A0 3 | <= ;2015-07-30 Thu 10:00> |
| B=C2=A0 =C2=A0 |=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0| F=C2=A0 =C2=A0|=C2=A0= =C2=A010 | <2015-08-11 Tue 15:00> |
| C=C2=A0 =C2=A0 | blah2=C2=A0 =C2=A0|=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0|=C2=A0 =C2=A013 = |=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 |
| D=C2=A0 =C2=A0 | blah3=C2=A0 =C2=A0| M=C2=A0 =C2=A0|=C2=A0 =C2=A015 | <= ;2015-09-28 Mon 07:00> |
|=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 |=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0|=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0|=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 |=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 |

Question:
How can I get the meetings (the Names) to show up as Agenda events?

One of the successful approaches I tried is to use propertie= s (instead
of table columns), and edit via column view. However, this is
significantly slower (for me) than using straight tables; also the
column view is nice, but not as clean as a straight table.

I tried to transpose a table into properties, but could not = do that.

Any help or suggestions, please?

Thank you!
--
Prof. Paolo Bientinesi, Ph.D.

AICES, RWTH Aachen


Agendas only pick up headlines,=C2=A0 which don't exist inside tables.= =C2=A0 Your attempt using properties is about as close as you can get.=C2= =A0

Maybe you can build a custom table exporter and convert it t= o headlines,=C2=A0 then build your agenda from that?


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