[Orgmode] Re: What's the use of Column View?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> "Egli Christian (KIRO 41)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > There you go! A quick and simple way to get an overview. The power  
> > of column view stems from the fact that it lets you quickly and  
> > simply
> > define hierarchical structures and then combine them with a tabular  
> > overview.
> >
> > Hope this helps
>
> Thanks Christian!  I haven't played with column view much yet but this
> is a great application I can use immediately.
>
> Since you're posting estimated times on your tasks I'm wondering if
> there's a way to get the clocked summary times for each task in the
> column view table as well (same values as C-c C-x C-d display).
>
> I'd _love_ to see my estimate task times and actual times side by side
> in the column view per task.  That will help me tune my estimates much
> faster.
>
> This would be very useful for me to check how my estimates are doing
> compared to actual time spent on tasks.  Is there some magical
> incantation to do this?  :)

In 5.19 you will be able to use a special read-only column CLOCKSUM that
will contain the total time spent in a subtree.

- Carsten