On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:44 AM, <pray...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > I keep my diary, action items, scheduled tasks etc in a single > org-mode file. It contains things like: > > ** Norton my office <2015-03-11 Wed 10:00 +1w> > ** TODO power bill :home: > DEADLINE: <2015-12-29 Tue> > ** TODO review business manager PD > SCHEDULED: <2015-12-27 Sun> > > and lots of others. > I would like to share a version of my agenda for each week with colleagues, > perhaps > even interface it with the exchange web services used by my > organization. The first task is to select only those entries with > active timestamps that fall within the week. > My first attempt is a tag-search query like: > TIMESTAMP>"<-1d>"&TIMESTAMP<"<+7d>" > but that doesn't pick up the repeated entries. > > The other approach I can see is agenda filtering. I can filter by tag > and hence remove the entry with :home: but I can't see how to remove > the item with a SCHEDULED date but no specific time to happen. Is > there a simple workaround or should I use a richer set of tags to > accomplish this? > thanks again > Peter
Your request reminded me of something I was trying to do at one point. I thought it was something simlar for a custom agenda view, but after a fair bit of searching, it was for a sparse tree filter for inactive time stamps (active already existed). So, maybe there's a 3rd way you could get the format/data you want from an org file? Perhaps you could try the following on your file? - C-c / (opens sparse tree search) - press =c= to toggle to "only active timestamps" - press =D= to trigger the date range search - select your start/end range If that works, maybe someone could help you automate it as some sort of query function. For a test, I created the following: #+begin_example * tasks ** todo 1 SCHEDULED: <2015-12-23 Wed> ** todo 2 DEADLINE: <2015-12-23 Wed> ** todo 3 [2015-12-23 Wed] ** todo 4 SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed> ** todo 5 DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed> ** todo 6 [2015-12-30 Wed] ** todo 7 SCHEDULED: <2016-01-06 Wed> ** todo 8 DEADLINE: <2016-01-06 Wed> ** todo 9 [2016-01-06 Wed] ** todo 10 SCHEDULED: <2016-01-13 Wed> ** todo 11 DEADLINE: <2016-01-13 Wed> ** todo 12 [2016-01-13 Wed] #+end_example Using the method above and selecting 12/30 -> 1/6 yields: #+begin_example * tasks ** todo 4 SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed> ** todo 5 DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed> ... #+end_example If I extend to 1/7, I get: #+begin_example * tasks ** todo 4 SCHEDULED: <2015-12-30 Wed> ** todo 5 DEADLINE: <2015-12-30 Wed> ... ** todo 7 SCHEDULED: <2016-01-06 Wed> ** todo 8 DEADLINE: <2016-01-06 Wed> ... #+end_example Would that work? I used =C-c C-x v= (copy visible text) to produce the above. It doesn't actually copy the ellipses; I just added them to reproduce what I see. Hope that helps! John > > -- > Peter Rayner > Leader, Clean Air and Urban Landscapes NESP hub <http://www.nespurban.edu.au> > room 343 > School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Vic, Australia > tel: work: +61 (0)3 8344 9708; fax: +61 (0)3 8344 7761 > mobile +61 402 752 379, skype: petermorag > mail-to: pray...@unimelb.edu.au TWITTER: @raynerstrings > google scholar profile > <http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=H3up71wAAAAJ&hl=en> >
