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From: Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Showing remaining time in agenda mode
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:02:26 +0200
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On 09/12/2011 01:14 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been using Org-Mode with great success over the last year (or
>> so). There is a number of items that I need to handle, and I am
>> reading through the code to try to figure out how to do the various
>> items. However, recently I switched to using 7.7, which disabled a
>> feature I use (but it seems to just be a matter of setting it up
>> again) but also seem to have a lot of additions that I need.
>>
>> Beginning of each week, I plan the coming week using the agenda mode
>> to sort out tasks over the week. To do this efficiently, I have been
>> looking at Effort for each task and the summary for the day, and when
>> the default column view for the agenda showed Effort and Clock, this
>> worked quite well if you manage to complete the tasks during a week.
>> However, quite often I run across tasks that I cannot easily split
>> into smaller tasks and which take more than a week to complete (even
>> though the tasks themselves might be small, I can just spend a few
>> hours each week on them), which forces me to make the math in the head
>> to distribute the right amount for each day.
>>
>> Now, the default column view changed with 7.7, so I have no idea on
>> how to set up the agenda column view to show the following:
>>
>>     * Each "task line" should show Item, Effort, Clock, and Clock - Effort
>>     * Each "day line" should show the summary of (at least) the Effort
>>       and the Clock - Effort
>>
>> Does anybody know how to set this up, or do I need to go digging the code?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Mats Kindahl
> Hi Mats,
>
> Try customizing org-columns-default-format.

Thanks Bernt,

But how to define different formats for tasks and days and how to
define the format for "Clock - Effort"?

/Matz