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Re: [O] How to generate CLOCKSUM property from time ranges?
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Kyle Meyer |
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Re: [O] How to generate CLOCKSUM property from time ranges? |
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Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:37:16 -0500 |
Hello,
[sorry for the late response]
Leo Alekseyev <address@hidden> writes:
> Greetings all,
> I am looking into using `org-invoice` to generate some invoices. It uses
> the CLOCKSUM property, which according to the docs gets auto-generated when
> the clock entries are summed in a subtree.
>
> Concretely, docs say: "CLOCKSUM: The sum of CLOCK intervals in the
> subtree. ‘org-clock-sum’ must be run first to compute the values in the
> current buffer." However, `org-clock-sum` is a non-interactive function,
> and evaluating it by hand doesn't do anything for me.
> [...]
> Question: how do I get CLOCKSUM property generated and stored in a subtree
> with timestamps so that org-invoice functions can pick it up?
I haven’t used the CLOCKSUM property (or org-invoice), but my
understanding is that it’s a special property that should not actually
be set in the property drawer: ‘(info "(org)Special properties")’.
Running org-clock-sum doesn’t generate a property drawer, but it does
store the value as a text property. Say we have this file:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* TODO things
:LOGBOOK:
CLOCK: [2019-01-12 Sat 17:33]--[2019-01-12 Sat 17:40] => 0:07
:END:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
org-invoice retrieves the CLOCKSUM value with org-entry-get. Here’s
what we get if we run that in the above buffer, before and after calling
org-clock-sum:
(org-entry-get nil "CLOCKSUM" nil) ; => nil
(org-clock-sum) ; => 7
(org-entry-get nil "CLOCKSUM" nil) ; => "0:07"
So, running org-clock-sum (or any function that calls org-clock-sum),
does generate and store a value that org-invoice can use; you just can’t
see it easily.
--
Kyle
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