I'm going to narrow my question a bit because by now I've figured out that the most likely course to follow should be the use of a dynamic block. Is that correct?
What I'm not sure of is whether I need to develop a function from scratch to crawl through certain files for tasks with particular tags or whether there are functions that I can leverage to do this (such as some of the functions upon which the agenda depends, etc). I am way out of my depth on this one, but with a few pointers I feel like it may be a good way for me to keep learning.... TIA — Michael On Aug 3, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Here's my challenge: > > I manage a lot of complex, overlapping projects. One of these projects is a > regular newsletter. Half of the content that goes out in this newsletter is > created by the newsletter program itself. The other half is the result of > several other projects, which produce reports and articles that get published > in the newsletter. The publishing task in all those other projects are tagged > with an 'nnpublish' tag. > > I want to be able to work on the newsletter project in one place. I don't > want to maintain duplicate tasks in wildly different places. (You can imagine > how out of hand this would get.) What I want to do is INCLUDE all of the > other publishing tasks programmatically in the org file that I use to manage > the newsletter. I am completely stymied as to how to do this. > > The only information that I've had a change to look at that touches on the > matter of including other files is in section 11.4 of the manual. If I'm not > mistaken, it applies only to export. And the only processing that can be > applied to the file being included is a limitation on which lines to include. > Unless I'm missing something, this isn't going to meet my needs. I'm > wondering if perhaps I need to be looking at code blocks. Maybe something > that uses agenda code to grab items and then renders them in place. Oh hell, > I don't know. > > I'm pretty lost as to how to pursue this. Any thoughts?