On Oct 6, 2015 5:43 PM, "tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com> wrote:

I can do the following in .emacs

(setq org-capture-templates
      '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
"/default.org") "Tasks")
         "* TODO %?")
        ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
"/journal.org"))
         "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")
        ;;product or work specific stuff - I would like to move these
to files and have
        ;;them loaded - maybe in the future
    ("p" "product")
    ("pt" "Product Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
"/product.org") "Tasks") "* TODO %?")))

and it works as expected

but if I do this in .emacs:
(setq org-capture-templates
      '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
"/default.org") "Tasks")
         "* TODO %?")
        ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
"/journal.org"))
         "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")))
        ;;product or work specific stuff - I would like to move these
to files and have
        ;;them loaded - maybe in the future

(load-file (concat org-directory "/capture-templates/product-templates.el"))

with product-templates containing:

(push '(("p" "product") ("pt" "Product - Todo" entry (file+headline
(concat org-directory "/product.org") "Tasks") "* TODO %?"))
org-capture-templates)

and then I use C-c n to go to capture mode, it just hangs with the
mouse cursor in a spinning wheel.  Am I not translating the part to go
into submenus correctly, or can you not add sub-menus as I am doing.

Thanks!

-C

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> "tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I am trying to figure out how to store multiple capture templates in a
>> file, have several files of related templates, and then load all the
>> files stored in a directory.  For example, lets say I have two
>> projects at work WorkProject1 and WorkProject2.  Then I have two files
>> in a directory org-templates called WorkProj1Templates.el and
>> WorkTemplates2.el.  How can I append the templates in these files to
>> or capture templates?  In my main .emacs, I have:
>>
>> (setq org-capture-templates
>>       '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
>> "/default.org") "Tasks")
>>          "* TODO %?")
>>         ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
>> "/journal.org"))
>>          "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")))
>>
>> I would like to then load the template files in org-templates.  That
>> way, when a project ends, I can just yank the templates.  I have
>> experimentally tried using add-to-list with org-capture-templates
>> without success.  Either that can't be done or my syntax was wrong?
>
> How could anyone tell if you don't show your attempt?
>
>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> What about this?
>
> WorkProj1Templates.el:
>
> #v+
> (push '("1" "Todo" entry
>         (file+headline
>          (concat org-directory "/WorkProj1.org")
>          "Tasks")
>         "* TODO %?")
>       org-capture-templates)
> #v-
>
> --
> Marco Wahl
> GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2
>
>