Re: How can you sort an Org clock table?

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:

> Ah yes, I see that I have to move the point into the table cell. I was
> trying with the table header. Slightly odd that. Means that it only
> works on tables that aggregate clock times across multiple files,
> where the times are put in the same cell. Can you replicate? If you do
> a clocktable with the scope set to that file, then there's no way to
> order the cells.
>
> How hard would it be to modify org-dblock-write do you think? In hours
> work for someone familiar with elisp, but not the org codebase.
>

No idea - I have never used clocktables.

> On 31 March 2014 03:06, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
>    
>     > Yeah, tried that. Doesn't work! :(
>     >
>    
>     AFAICT, it works fine on your first stackoverflow example.
>    
>     There is probably no hope of getting this method to work the way you
>     want on your second example though: org-sort does not know anything
>     about the substructure of the table.  The only way I can think of is to
>     make the dynblock function that produces the table
>     (org-dblock-write:clocktable) do the sorting.
>
>     > On 30 March 2014 23:24, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> writes:
>     >
>     >     > I posted a question on StackOverflow:
>     >     >
>     >     > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22749704/how-can-you-sort-an-org-clock-table
>     >     >
>     >     > Summary is: how do I sort an clock table by the % column?
>     >     >
>     >     > Is there anything "out there" I can use to get this working? If not,
>     >     > how complex a job would it be to write something that did this?
>     >     >
>     >     > If you point me in the right direction, I'll see what I can come up with.
>     >     >
>     >
>     >     Never tried on a clock table, but the following works on a generic
>     >     table, so I assume that it will work on a clock table too: put point
>     >     in the column by which you want to sort the table (in the body of the
>     >     table, not in the header) and say M-x org-sort RET n (I assume you
>     >     want numeric sorting, but org-sort provides several kinds). org-sort
>     >     is normally bound to C-c ^ too, so
>     >
>     >         C-c ^ n
>     >
>     >     should be all that's needed.
>     >     --
>     >     Nick
>     >
>    
>     --
>     Nick
>

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Nick