Re: Re: Contracts in Orgmode

[David Maus <maus.david@gmail.com>]

At Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:49:07 -0800,
Markus Heller wrote:
> 
> 
> After some more googling and having a closer look at the org manual, I 
> came up with a solution that might work.  It uses dependencies and 
> org-depend.el.  I've pasted it below, and as usual, I'd appreciate any 
> comments/improvement :)
> 
> I realize that this is not exactly an elegant solution, but it might 
> work for me.  I'd still like to see a way in orgmode to allow clocking 
> in on certain tasks only during a specific period of time, maybe 
> something like
> 
> ** Contract for Client A
>     :PROPERTIES:
>       :START: 01-01-2010
>       :EXPIRY: 03-31-2010
>     :END:
> 
> Then, when the START date is reached, the task state gets changed to the 
> TODO or STARTED, and once the expiry date is reached, it gets marked 
> DONE, and cannot be clocked in anymore.  I'm not sure if this is a 
> feature that would be of general interest ...  But what do the experts 
> think?

With regards to closing expired items you may take a look at
org-expiry.el in the contrib directory. It provides a function to
check for and act upon entries that are past their expiration date.

What I am not quite understanding is the wish to be unable to clock in
a closed item: Isn't clocking in something you do deliberately?

Regards

 -- David
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