Re: org-collector - propview display problems

[Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>]

Hi,

On 02/29/2016 01:04 PM, dche wrote:
> Hello
>
> I tried to use org-collector with the example propose
> at this link http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html
>
> I would like to use propview as cited in example but whatever I do,
> I get the outputs below.
>
>
>
> * Example
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :cols (ITEM amount)
> | ITEM                                   | amount |
> |----------------------------------------+--------|
> | "* Example"                            |      0 |
> | "** December Spending"                 |      0 |
> | "*** Week One"                         |      0 |
> | "**** Grocery Store [2008-12-01 lun.]" |      0 |
> | "**** Athletic club [2008-12-02 mar.]" |      0 |
> | "*** Week Two"                         |      0 |
> | "**** Restaurant [2008-12-08 lun.]"    |      0 |
> |----------------------------------------+--------|
> |                                        |        |
> #+END:
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :id "december" :conds ((string= spendtype "food")) :cols
> (ITEM amount)
> | ITEM | amount |
> |------+--------|
> |------+--------|
> |      |        |
> #+END:
>
> #+BEGIN: propview :cols (ITEM (+ 400 amount)) :scope tree :match "example"
> | ITEM                                   | (+ 400 amount) |
> |----------------------------------------+----------------|
> | "** December Spending"                 |              0 |
> | "*** Week One"                         |              0 |
> | "**** Grocery Store [2008-12-01 lun.]" |              0 |
> | "**** Athletic club [2008-12-02 mar.]" |              0 |
> | "*** Week Two"                         |              0 |
> | "**** Restaurant [2008-12-08 lun.]"    |              0 |
> |----------------------------------------+----------------|
> |                                        |                |
> #+END:
>
> ** December Spending					
> 	       :example:
>     :PROPERTIES:
>     :ID: december
>     :END:
>
> *** Week One
> **** Grocery Store [2008-12-01 Mon]
>       :PROPERTIES:
>       :amount: 56.77
>       :spendtype: food
>       :END:
> **** Athletic club [2008-12-02 Tue]
>       :PROPERTIES:
>       :amount: 75.00
>       :spendtype: health
>       :END:
> *** Week Two
> **** Restaurant [2008-12-08 Mon]
>       :PROPERTIES:
>       :amount: 30.67
>       :spendtype: food
>       :END:
>
> The item is not extracted as expected (there are "*" that are also
> displayed corresponding of the level of entries) and the extracted
> field is zero whatever of the effective value of this field (here
> amount).
>
> This is test with 8.3.4 and GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601).
>
>
>
I believe this is the same problem or bug I reported in April 2015! 
Others have also brought attention it to this, but nothing has been done 
to fix it.

Charlie Millar