Re: Agenda ical export omissions: sexp, hour-in-headline

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> I have a shell function that exports my agenda to an ical file and
> uploads it for Google to read; however, there seem to be a couple
> glaring omissions from the ical. Here's the bash line that works over
> my agenda for export:
>
> 	emacs --batch --user $USER --eval "(progn (org-agenda-list nil nil 'year) (org-icalendar-combine-agenda-files))"
>
> It skips the following sort of agenda entries:
>
>    *** 09:05-09:55 CS 7637 Weekly Class @ Klaus 2447
>    <%%(org-class 2014 8 18 2014 12 12 1)> 
>
> and: 
>
>      %%(org-anniversary 2015 03 26) Glory %d Birthday
>
> So, it doesn't seem to ical-ify sexp dates, and it doesn't seem to do
> times (09:05-09:55) in the headers. Is there anything to be done for
> this? I've just discovered the agenda power of these mighty functions
> but will be limited in my use of them if they can't be exported.

Times in the header are not Org syntax, you could use an Org timestamp
instead.

Also, `icalendar' back-end uses `icalendar-export-region' internally,
which doesn't support Sexp-entries (see *icalendar-errors* buffer).


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou