Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: planner task syntax

[Torsten Anders]

Dear Sacha and Michael,

Thank you very much for your most helpful replay! It seems I get the 
hang of it :)

On 05.04.2006, at 21:27, Michael Olson wrote:
> Don't forget to surround the link with parentheses.

On 05.04.2006, at 23:58, Sacha Chua wrote:
> then call M-x planner-update-task to copy the task to the linked page

Great.

BTW: Manually entering is not so much the point as being able to easily 
edit and change..

> Also, your May.2006-style plan pages make me think of planner-zoom.el,
> which has just been contributed. See if
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.wiki.general/5419 strikes a
> chord. =)

Thanks for forwarding that. Thanks exactly where I got the idea from 
(in the email I only got the order in naming convention wrong -- coming 
from Europe).


> you don't have to reinvent the wheel. See planner-schedule.el . ^_^

Thanks for pointing to that. Its really amazing what this module takes 
into account (diary, holidays etc).

Unfortunately, its not quite what I'm after. If I understood it right, 
planner-schedule.el always reports how long the present project would 
take from now on. That's not suitable, for example, if I structured my 
workload into multiple projects or if I only can start the day after 
tomorrow.

All I would like to do is: find all tasks in a page still to fulfill 
(open, in progress, pending) and report the sum of their durations.

Along that line, it would be great if for some child-project I could 
automatically accumulate these durations and insert the sum into some 
'header-task' of the child-project using a Lisp tag.

  #B _ [[lisp:<add-all-durations-in-this-project-but-the-first>]] test 
header ([[ParentProject]] [[ThisSubProject]])

All durations but the first are accumulated. The first would be the 
project header task which is not added..

Then, in the parent project I see the full duration of its child 
project, and in the top-level project I could sum up recursively the 
full duration of the project.

Oh, oh, I must be careful now to focus on my actual TODO list and not 
to add a handful of tasks just to make the TODO list shine ;-)


> `planner-multi-copy-tasks-to-page' is a customizable option, not a
> function.

Oh, sorry. The doc clearly says

        User Option: planner-multi-copy-tasks-to-page

Regards,
Torsten

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Torsten Anders
Sonic Arts Research Centre
Queen's University Belfast (UK)
www.torsten-anders.de