Daniel E. Doherty <ded-...@ddoherty.net> wrote:
>
> Org Mode-erists:
>
> I like the attachment facility of Org for organizing external files
> related to a project, but it seems to lack an obvious feature.
>
> I use a separate org file for each major project, which in my case are
> law suits. I would like to have a custom attachment directory specified
> at the top of the file for all attachments related to the project, have
> it inherited by all headings, and be able to specify a custom directory
> for a heading relative to that file-wide attachment directory.
>
> I have tried this:
>
> #+PROPERTY: :ATTACH_DIR_INHERIT: t
> #+PROPERTY: :ATTACH_DIR: ~/cases/Client Name/Case Name/
>
> but it does not work. When I C-c C-a f to open up the attachment
> directory on a headline, it gives me an ID-based directory in the data
> directory instead of the file-wide default.
>
Try losing the colons around the property names - the following seems to work
OK (modulo the possible problem of filenames starting with . - I had to rename
.emacs -> dot.emacs for it to work):
,----
| #+PROPERTY: ATTACH_DIR ./attachments
|
|
| * bar
:ATTACH:
| :PROPERTIES:
| :Attachments: dot.emacs
| :END:
|
| Make an attachment.
`----
Nick
> Also, when I C-c C-a s to set a custom attachment directory, it defaults
> to my org directory.
>
> Using the data directory would be fine if I only wanted to access files
> through Org Mode (and perhaps I should), but I occassionaly have to open
> a file from outside emacs (say, a spreadsheet from excel on a Windows
> machine) and finding the file in the ID-based heirarchy is tough.
>
> How hard would this be to implement? With this, I can thing of my
> org-mode file as a kind of annotated dired for a project.
>
> Regards,
> --
> ====================================================
> Daniel E. Doherty
> ded-...@ddoherty.net
>
