Re: An issue with org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2015-12-12, at 09:53, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> I have org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels set to nil.  However, given this
>> tree:
>>
>> * DONE task
>> ** TODO subtask
>>
>> it turns out that the todo list in the agenda shows the "subtask" anyway.
>>
>> Should it be so?  I would guess not.
>
> It's not clear to to me it shouldn't be the case. AFAIU, the point of
> `org-agenda-todo-list-sublevels' is not to skip TODO entries but to
> limit the tasks you can process at a time.

I see.

>> The reason I'd like to exclude this "subtask" from displaying is
>> something like this: assume that I have a project, halfway done, which
>> must be postponed for some reason.  I'd like to be able to do this:
>>
>> * SOMEDAY cool project
>> ** DONE preparation
>> ** TODO hard work
>>
>> where SOMEDAY is a done-type keyword.
>>
>> And of course, I don't want to be bothered by "hard work" in this case
>> in my global todo list.
>>
>> Is there a way to achieve this?
>
> You can use a dedicated function in `org-agenda-skip-function' for that
> (e.g., ignore task if one of its parents is a done task).

Wow, thanks, I didn't know about it.  Now that I look into this, should
I use `org-agenda-skip-function' or `org-agenda-skip-function-global'?

Also, how do I check whether one of the parents is done?  I know how to
climb through the hierarchy of headlines, how do I get the TODO keyword?
Is `org-get-todo-state' the right function to do that?

Now that I think of it, maybe I should use a tag for that (like
:project: or something).  I'll have to think about it.

> Regards,

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University