Re: [Orgmode] Listing todos which have other todos in the subtree in the agenda

[Jan Böcker]

On 08/13/2010 06:10 PM, David Maus wrote:
> Jan Böcker wrote:
>> I have a projects.org file with entries like this:
> 
>> * PROJECT Find the answer to life, the universe and everything
>> * PROJECT World Domination
>> *** NEXT build Doomsday Device
> 
>> (where PROJECT and NEXT are both defined as todo keywords.)
> 
>> I'd like to define a custom agenda view to get a project list. I tried a
>> "TAGS search" for '+TODO="PROJECT"'. My problem is that the "World
>> Domination" project is not shown, because the todo is blocked by the
>> "build Doomsday Device" next action. I tried setting
>> `org-enforce-todo-dependencies' to nil in the local settings for the
>> agenda command, but that did not help.
> 
>> Setting `org-todo-keywords' to '((sequence "PROJECT")) also did not help.
> 
>> I'd appreciate any ideas on how to achieve a list of all my projects,
>> regardless of whether they have next actions defined or not.
> 
> Bernt's "Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!"
> (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html) might be a good starting point.
> Especially
> 
>  - 6 Custom agenda views -and-
> 
>  - 12.2 Project definition and finding stuck projects 
> 
> A simple check in `bh/is-project-p' if the entry has the PROJECT
> keyword should do the job.
> 
> HTH,
>   -- David

Thanks for the pointer -- although experimenting with custom skip
functions did not solve my problem, by reading Bernt's document I
discovered speed keys :)

It turned out the culprit was `org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks', which I
had set to 'invisible soon after I started using Org-mode. Setting that
to nil in the "Settings for the entire command set" of the block agenda
view does what I want.

And now that I know about custom skip functions, I can move stuck
projects to their own section in the project list.

~ Jan