Feedback on org-collector Worg page

Feedback on org-collector Worg page

[John Hendy]

I'm happy to do the updating that might come out of these comments.
Org-collector was recently mentioned on the mailing list and I took a
second to play with it a bit by following the page on Worg.
-- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html

The location of the src table was not specified in the article. I
found out after a bit of trial and error that the org-collector block
will search only the previous headline and any children. Thus, one
needs to be careful where the org-collector block is. To use the
example on Worg, someone might create their financial tracker document
like so:

----------
* Statistics
[bunch of org-collector blocks]

* Raw Data
** Jan Purchases
** Feb Purchases
** Etc.
----------

This would not work, as the org-collector blocks are only looking in
the "* Statistics" headline. This is probably worth mentioning on Worg
if I'm correct (again, I'm happy to do this). Either that, or perhaps
the scope of the headlines searched could be changed if others find
this undesirable. Or I've totally botched and don't have the right
understanding and this is all a false alarm! :)

Secondly, I was attempting to use this on my contacts.org file and
kept getting errors. Probably a bad first start for a guinea pig file.
I finally narrowed down that my :Phone: property in the form "(xxx)
xxx.xxxx" was causing the error. It seems that properties with
parentheses cause org-collector to try and run it as a function. If I
add a property to the example file (call it "foo") and give it the
value "(test)", I get the error on C-c C-c "(void-function test)".

Comments?


Best regards,
John

Re: Feedback on org-collector Worg page

[Eric Schulte]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm happy to do the updating that might come out of these comments.
> Org-collector was recently mentioned on the mailing list and I took a
> second to play with it a bit by following the page on Worg.
> -- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector.html
>
> The location of the src table was not specified in the article. I
> found out after a bit of trial and error that the org-collector block
> will search only the previous headline and any children. Thus, one
> needs to be careful where the org-collector block is. To use the
> example on Worg, someone might create their financial tracker document
> like so:
>
> ----------
> * Statistics
> [bunch of org-collector blocks]
>
> * Raw Data
> ** Jan Purchases
> ** Feb Purchases
> ** Etc.
> ----------
>
> This would not work, as the org-collector blocks are only looking in
> the "* Statistics" headline. This is probably worth mentioning on Worg
> if I'm correct (again, I'm happy to do this). Either that, or perhaps
> the scope of the headlines searched could be changed if others find
> this undesirable. Or I've totally botched and don't have the right
> understanding and this is all a false alarm! :)
>
> Secondly, I was attempting to use this on my contacts.org file and
> kept getting errors. Probably a bad first start for a guinea pig file.
> I finally narrowed down that my :Phone: property in the form "(xxx)
> xxx.xxxx" was causing the error. It seems that properties with
> parentheses cause org-collector to try and run it as a function. If I
> add a property to the example file (call it "foo") and give it the
> value "(test)", I get the error on C-c C-c "(void-function test)".
>
> Comments?
>

Hi John,

I wrote the org-collector some years ago, but haven't used it in a long
time.  After a quick scan your comments look great, and I'm sure they
would improve the worg page, so please go ahead and make any changes you
see fit.  My one caveat is that you may want to (if you haven't already)
look through the org-collector.el file for comments, which may explain
some of the surprising behaviors.

Thanks,

>
>
> Best regards,
> John
>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

Re: Feedback on org-collector Worg page

[Mike McLean]

On May 11, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm happy to do the updating that might come out of these comments.

Eric and John

I use org-collector in quite a few places in my daily setup. I can't say thank you enough for creating it (Eric) and helping the Worg documentation can only increase the interest in this cool add on. John, if there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. I typically run 1-2 days behind on the Org-Mode mailing list, but will see direct emails to me.

Mike