On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 08:58, David Maus <dm...@ictsoc.de> wrote:
> At Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:12:39 +0000 (UTC),
> johnt wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to set a custom command to show my work tasks and critical
> home
> > tasks for the day.
> >
> > I have tried the following.
> >
> > (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
> > '( ("W" "Work Schedule"
> > ((agenda ""
> > ((org-agenda-filter-preset '("@Work|critical")) ;; this
> doesn't work
> > (org-agenda-ndays 1)))
> > (tags-todo "@Work|critical")))
> > )
> >
> > It seems just to ignore the filter. The tags-todo line works fine.
> >
> > I tried various filters to verify my syntax.
> > using (org-agenda-filter-preset '("+...@work")) works fine but is not what I
> want.
> > using (org-agenda-filter-preset '("@Work" "|" "critical")) also doesn't
> work.
>
> There are some errors in your `org-agenda-filter-preset':
>
> 1. You should not quote this list, because the entire structure of
> `org-agenda-custom-commands' is already quoted.
>
> 2. Format of `org-agenda-filter-preset' (C-h v
> org-agenda-filter-preset RET):
>
> ,----
> | A preset of the tags filter used for secondary agenda filtering.
> | This must be a list of strings, each string must be a single tag
> preceded
> | by "+" or "-".
> `----
>
> So ("@work" "|" "critical") is wrong format.
>
> 3. The preset filter ANDs the tags together and as far as I am aware
> of (our could think of) it is not possible to OR tags together.
> However, I wonder why you would like to set the preset-filter: The
> tags-todo query already selects only tasks that are either tagged
> @work or critical?
>
> HTH,
> -- David
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Thanks for the reply. It turns out that most of this did not matter. I was
mostly
concerned with this for export and use with Mobile Org. For these it seems
to
process all the custom commands together. This seems to act like a block
agenda
which does not support filtering of individual blocks. I could get one
custom command
to export or push to mobile org correctly but with more then one the filters
were ignored.
I ended up having to write some custom functions to process the commands one
at
a time to temporary files and then combine the files. The or'ing of tags not
being
supported is still an issue but I changed my usage to get around that.
Thanks for the tip on "C-h v org-agenda-filter-preset RET" to get
information on a variable.
There is just so much to learn.
John
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