From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Wahl Subject: Re: Anniversaries from BBDB Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:58:38 +0200 Message-ID: <84bm8r72w1.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g3FOx-0000hl-M3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:58:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g3FOu-0001lx-EZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:58:55 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42798 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g3FOt-0001XR-Kh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:58:52 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g3FMg-0006hT-PN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:56:34 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.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: #. 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