I was moving my budget into Org, and while trying to make it work via column view and properties I ran into two major impediments.
First, properties can't be calculated from one another ala spreadsheet or elisp (ie: Property C = Property A + Property B). Thus I had to add conversion to a dynamic block capturing the column view as formulas. Second, though column view and captured columns support totaling by tree hierarchy (ie: parent shows sum of children), I can't add a total row to the bottom of the dynamic blocks that is preserved across updates. Here's a sample: * Summaries #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 3 :id "Budget" | ITEM | VENDOR | DUE | FREQ | AMOUNT | BIMONTHLY | MONTHLY | YEARLY | |-----------------------------+--------+-----+------+---------+-----------+---------+-----------+ | *** Optional | | | | -250.00 | -250.00 | -250.00 | -250.00 | | **** TODO Russell Fun Money | | 1 | 0.5 | -250.00 | -250.00 | -500.00 | -6000.00 | #+TBLFM: $6=$5*(1/$4)/2;%.2f::$7=$5*(1/$4);%.2f::$8=$5*(1/$4)*12;%.2f #+END: No entry has a BIMONTHLY, MONTHLY, or YEARLY property. I used that to create the columns for my formulas so that I can populate those numbers. The parent has the wrong sum because it is using the property values, not summing from the spreadsheet calculation. * Budget Items :PROPERTIES: :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %15VENDOR %3DUE %3FREQ %AMOUNT{+;%.2f} %BIMONTHLY %MONTHLY %YEARLY :ID: Budget :END: ** Expenses :PROPERTIES: :FREQ: 1 :END: *** Optional **** TODO Russell Fun Money :PROPERTIES: :DUE: 1 :AMOUNT: -250.00 :FREQ: 0.5 :END: I've reverted to using spreadsheet with hyperlinks for items so I can keep notes... I really thought that column view would be superior though. Perhaps this will inspire some new features. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3