Hi Hannes, I was about to report the same behavior on a Mac:
On 30.08.2012, at 13:47, Hannes Schulz wrote: > when I put my agenda in column mode, I would like to change > efforts and the like. > When I do some action it instantly drops out of column mode. > > I'm using org-mode from git 7.9 (release_7.9-163-gdfe33f). Here org-version: 7.9 (release_7.9-174-gcdbc2d.dirty) For the sake of a clean compile (aka by pure chance) I changed org-mode/local.mk to point to the current emacs 24.2 (from http://emacsformacosx.com/) … # Name of your emacs binary #EMACS = emacs EMACS = /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs … Now my minimal example works as expected: -------- #+PROPERTY: Effort_ALL 0 0:10 0:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 #+COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %17Effort(Estimated Effort){:} %CLOCKSUM(Clock){:} * Tasks ** TODO was SCHEDULED: <2012-08-30 Thu> CLOCK: [2012-08-31 Fri 03:35]--[2012-08-31 Fri 03:44] => 0:09 :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 1:00 :END: --------- I still have to try it on my real org-files though. Riko Viele Grüße Riko Jacob -- Riko Jacob Tel. +41 44 632 25 73 rja...@inf.ethz.ch http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/rjacob/
