Re: Date-centric Clocktable

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On 6.9.2011, at 23:36, Rasmus wrote:

> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
> 
>> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>> Is is possible to have a clocktabke with times in the left-most column?
>>> The people I am doing some work for now prefer it that way for unknown
>>> reasons. 
>>> 
>>> This is an example
>>> 
>>> | date                                           | Headline        | total |
>>> |------------------------------------------------+-----------------+-------|
>>> | [2011-08-19 Fri 00:28]--[2011-08-19 Fri 00:51] | Writing mails   |  0:23 |
>>> | [2011-06-22 Wed 17:00]--[2011-06-22 Wed 17:45] | Data processing |  0:45 |
>>> 
>>> And so forth.
>> 
>> Hi Rasmus,
>> 
>> I'm not aware of any way to automatically get the clock report in that
>> format using existing org-mode functions but you can just manually move
>> the column before you publish it to whomever wants it in column 1.  Just
>> put point in the total column and M-<left-arrow> to shift the column
>> where you want it.
> 
> Well, this would require me to collect some 40 logbook entries myself
> and associate them with a headline.  What I need is a summary showing
> what I did when.  In other words, the default clock table summarizes too
> much.
> 
> It might be easier to process the file with some other tool and extract
> logbook entries with a regexp.  Are there any specialized
> Org/Emacs-command I could use for generating a custom clock table?

Have you tried log mode in the agenda:

Make an agenda for the time intervar you are interested in,
day week month, or so.  Then press `C-u C-u v L'.  Maybe you can work from there?

- Carsten