[Orgmode] Re: Archiving

[J. David Boyd]

Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (J. David Boyd) writes:
>
>> I've read all the archiving information, and I _think_ that I understand
>> it, bu there is my question.
>>
>>
>> I would like to put archived entries into a file, but keep the headlines
>> that existed when they were 'live', so that when I show them in the
>> clock, they line up under the parents that owned them.  That way I can
>> see how much total time I have spent on certain projects, and just by
>> changing the 'agenda-with-archives' to something else, _not_ see them if
>> I don't want to.
>>
>> Is this possible?   Does some guru know how to do this?
>
> I don't know of an automatic way to do this but I have this manually set
> up in my org-files.
>
> I keep level 1 headings as categories/topics and archive level 2
> subtrees only.
>
> Each of the level 1 headings has a property that defines where the
> archived items should go - so they end up in the same tree structure in
> the archive file.
>
> ,----
> | * Appointments
> |   :PROPERTIES:
> |   :CATEGORY: Appt
> |   :ARCHIVE:  %s_archive::* Appointments
> |   :END:      
> |   ...
> | * Miscellaneous
> |   :PROPERTIES:
> |   :CATEGORY: todo
> |   :ARCHIVE: %s_archive::* Miscellaneous
> |   :END:
> `----
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
>
>


That would work, but _way_ more work than I would like to do....   I
just want a clean, hide 'em, but keep track of 'em, kind of structure.

Thanks for the info though, maybe I can write a perl script to run that
can go in and modify my .org files to create that....

Dave