On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:39:08PM -0700, Subhan Tindall wrote: > Yes, you are correct, file+datetree does not do this. A while ago I > suggested a file+datetree+headline type function be added, but it was not > received well.
I tend to agree with that. Your case is a corner case I believe. We can't keep on adding features which are not used widely. Specially since file+function or function provides all the flexibility anyone would ever want. > I attempted a function for use with file+function, but couldn't get it > quite working. Can you provide your attempt? Maybe then others can point out what you might be doing wrong. > I'm not quite sure how to use org-map-entries to find headlines? Given a scope, it iterates over all headlines to find a match. All the matches are accumulated in a list and returned. You have to provide your matching function to org-map-entries. Without putting much thought into it, I would propose the following algorithm: 1. Call org-map-entries in the full buffer scope looking for the date you want. 2. Once you have the entry corresponding to the date, limit scope to subtree and call org-map-entries again, this time looking for the specific "Ticket" you want to add to. Following (2), the template should be added as a sibling. Hope this helps, PS: Could you please not top-post. It is difficult to follow threads if you do. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.