Re: [Orgmode] FR: Columnview Tables & Formulas

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > No, not yet - but with the recently implemented mapping functions, it
> > would not be so hard.  Nice extension!  Anyone interested in trying  
> > to
> > write it?
> >
> > - Carsten
>
> I second that it would be very nice to be able to specify calc/elisp
> functions to be applied to property values before dumping the  
> results to
> tables.  I run IR experiments, and dump the results to org-mode
> formatted text files with individual runs as subtrees and specific
> values stored as properties of those trees, I then use column tables  
> to
> collect these values into tables which I plot with org-plot.  It would
> be nice to be able to preserve #+PLOT lines for these tables as well  
> as
> apply formulas to the tables. -- Eric

I can certainly preserve the #+PLOT and #+TBLFM lines when updating a  
column view capture.  That is easy.  Lets start with that and see if  
that turns out to be enough.  I am pushing a change which does this,  
and which will even automatically reapply the formulas when the  
capture dblock is updated.

- Carsten