Re: exporting just timestamped entries from an agenda

[<prayner@unimelb.edu.au>]

Hi John, almost solves the problem, the catch is entries like:
**  Norton my office <2015-03-11 Wed 10:00 +1w>
The date range searches in either the sparse tree or the tag-property
match searches don't seem to calculate out repeating dates ... fair
enough that's probably quite an overhead. I'll look at adding a filter
for active timestamps to  agenda filtering.
regards
Peter

John Hendy writes:
>On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:44 AM,  <prayner@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> I keep my diary, action items, scheduled tasks etc in a single
>> org-mode file. It contains things like:
>>
>> **  Norton my office <2015-03-11 Wed 10:00 +1w>
>> ** TODO power  bill                                                    :home:
>>    DEADLINE: <2015-12-29 Tue>
>> ** TODO review business manager PD
>>    SCHEDULED: <2015-12-27 Sun>
>>
>> and lots of others.
>> I would like to share a version of my agenda for each week with colleagues, perhaps
>> even interface it with the exchange web services used by my
>> organization. The first task is to select only those entries with
>> active timestamps that fall within the week.
>> My first attempt is a tag-search query like:
>> TIMESTAMP>"<-1d>"&TIMESTAMP<"<+7d>"
>> but that doesn't pick up the repeated entries.
>>
>> The other approach I can see is agenda filtering. I can filter by tag
>> and hence remove the entry with :home: but I can't see how to remove
>> the item with a SCHEDULED date but no specific time to happen. Is
>> there a simple workaround or should I use a richer set of tags to
>> accomplish this?
>> thanks again
>> Peter
>
>Your request reminded me of something I was trying to do at one point.
>I thought it was something simlar for a custom agenda view, but after
>a fair bit of searching, it was for a sparse tree filter for inactive
>time stamps (active already existed). So, maybe there's a 3rd way you
>could get the format/data you want from an org file?
>
>Perhaps you could try the following on your file?
>- C-c / (opens sparse tree search)
>- press =c= to toggle to "only active timestamps"
>- press =D= to trigger the date range search
>- select your start/end range
>
>If that works, maybe someone could help you automate it as some sort
>of query function.
>
>For a test, I created the following:
>
>#+begin_example
>* tasks
>** todo 1
>   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-23 Wed>
>** todo 2
>   DEADLINE: <2015-12-23 Wed>
>** todo 3
>[2015-12-23 Wed]
>** todo 4
>   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed>
>** todo 5
>   DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed>
>** todo 6
>[2015-12-30 Wed]
>** todo 7
>   SCHEDULED: <2016-01-06 Wed>
>** todo 8
>   DEADLINE: <2016-01-06 Wed>
>** todo 9
>[2016-01-06 Wed]
>** todo 10
>   SCHEDULED: <2016-01-13 Wed>
>** todo 11
>   DEADLINE: <2016-01-13 Wed>
>** todo 12
>[2016-01-13 Wed]
>#+end_example
>
>
>Using the method above and selecting 12/30 -> 1/6 yields:
>
>#+begin_example
>* tasks
>** todo 4
>   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed>
>** todo 5
>   DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed>
>...
>#+end_example
>
>
>If I extend to 1/7, I get:
>
>#+begin_example
>* tasks
>** todo 4
>   SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed>
>** todo 5
>   DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed>
>...
>** todo 7
>   SCHEDULED: <2016-01-06 Wed>
>** todo 8
>   DEADLINE: <2016-01-06 Wed>
>...
>#+end_example
>
>
>Would that work? I used =C-c C-x v= (copy visible text) to produce the
>above. It doesn't actually copy the ellipses; I just added them to
>reproduce what I see.
>
>
>Hope that helps!
>John
>
>
>>
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