Re: [Orgmode] Total time displayed in the modeline?

[Bastien]

Hi Sébastien,

Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:

> ;; time included for the modeline clock is all time clocked into this task
> ;; today
> (setq org-clock-modeline-total 'today)
>
> but this is not satisfying me yet, because:
>
> 1. for some tasks (like spending time on this newsgroup), I would like to set 
> a
>    maximum time per day,
>
> 2. for others, such as client tasks for which I've given an effort, I would
>    like to see how much time I've already spent on the task... but not only
>    today: all days summed up.
>
> Currently, with the above setting, 1 is OK. 2 is not.
>
> Changing the value of the above variable fixes one problem, but poses a
> new problem: 2 is OK, but 1 is not OK anymore.
>
> In fact, I would need the ability to:
>
> - have a global default value (such as of today),
> - be able to override the behavior on a subtree level.
>
> Does this make sense?
> Is somebody able/willing to do such?
> Or, better, is there already a way to achieve my goal within the
> current Org?

Did you try to set CLOCK_MODELINE_TOTAL on a subtree basis?

-- 
 Bastien