Re: Disabling TODO entries in a subtree

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> Hi Orgers,
>
> I work as an editorial assistant for a journal (together with a
> friend).  We get LaTeX files of articles, and have to convert them to
> our template, do some proof-reading and corrections, send galleys to
> authors etc.  It is convenient to have a TODO Org tree for each paper,
> with TODO subheadings for all these activities.  Thus, I created a tree
> called "Paper template" with all these TODO entries and copy it as
> needed.  However, I do not want them to show up an the agenda's todo
> list.  Is there a possibility to "disable" a tree, so that no its
> subheadings appear in the global todo list?

Custom agenda that excludes certain tags? Perhaps there's a way to
propagate some tag to the contents of the tree? Then exclude any items
with that tag?

Just a thought,
John

>
> If not, it's not a huge problem for me - I'll just write a small elisp
> function inserting my template - but if it's not possible, maybe (and
> this is a huge maybe!) such a feature is worth adding to Org-mode?
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Adam Mickiewicz University
>