Thx

i do have this now

  (defun z/save-meeting-to-ics ()
    "If the current file is in '~/.dotfiles', the code blocks are tangled"
    (when (equal (buffer-file-name)
                 (expand-file-name "/home/zeltak/org/files/agenda/meetings.org"))
 (rename-file (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) "/home/zeltak/org/files/export/kcal.ics")
      (message "exported to ics")))

;;run every 30 minutes

(run-with-timer 0 (* 30 60) 'z/save-meeting-to-ics)
;;(run-with-idle-timer 600 t #'org-agenda-redo) ;; to rebuild it every 600 second
;;  (add-hook 'after-save-hook #'z/save-meeting-to-ics)

yet i cant get the ics file to be created niether when i save the meeting.org file nor every 600 seconds. what am i missing here?

thx

Z

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@iname.com> wrote:
On 26 June 2016 at 16:38, Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> so i have pathetic coding skill but managed somehow to come up with this
>
>  (defun z/save-meeting-to-ics ()
>     "If the current file is in '~/.dotfiles', the code blocks are tangled"
>     (when (equal (buffer-file-name)
>                  (expand-file-name
> "/home/zeltak/org/files/agenda/meetings.org"))
>       (org-icalendar-export-to-ics)
>       (message "exported to ics")))
>
> this does save the org file "meetings.org" to an ICS file in the same folder
> as the file. but i want to do 2 additional things:
> 1)save the resulting ICS file to a different directory
> 2)run this function every X hours (lets say every 2 hours)
>
> any clue guys?
>
> thx!
>
> Z

For 1), change:

    (org-icalendar-export-to-ics)

to something like this:

    (rename-file (org-icalendar-export-to-ics) your-preferred-pathname)

For 2), evaluate this:

    (info "(elisp) Timers")

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