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From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Anniversaries from BBDB
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:58:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84bm8r72w1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b015a475837aaf06c71c93531b5e968f@disroot.org

Hi!

> I am having troubles to get the anniversaries from BBDB to my agenda view. Following the
> instruction in 10.3.1: https://orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html,  I add the the the
> following to my only one agenda file ("agenda.org"):
>
> * Anniversaries
> :PROPERTIES:
> :CATEGORY: Anniv
> :END:
> %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries)
>
> In bbdb I query "John Doe" and try C-o with cursor in the record. I get an error: Buffer is
> read-only: #<buffer *BBDB*>. So I insert a new field with bbdb-insert-field and name it
> "anniversary". I completed the date "09-23" to finish the process and save.
> I expected to see the anniversary in my agenda view when I push C-a a.  No anniversary whatsoever.
> I've tried to toggle diary: (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) without success. 
> I am using emacs 26.1. I've also try in a fresh emacs install with same result. Can someone help
> me? Thanks.
>
>

The format of the anniversary date is expected to be

YYYY-MM-DD

e.g.

2000-09-23

AFAICT.  See also variable `org-bbdb-extract-date-fun' for more
flexibility.


Ciao,
-- 
Marco

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-21  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-20 22:08 Anniversaries from BBDB leandro
2018-09-21  6:58 ` Marco Wahl [this message]
2018-09-21 13:50 ` leandro
2018-09-23 15:20   ` Marco Wahl

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