Re: [O] how to include items (filtered) from other org files?

[Michael C Gilbert]

I'm going to narrow my question a bit because by now I've figured out that the 
most likely course to follow should be the use of a dynamic block. Is that 
correct?

What I'm not sure of is whether I need to develop a function from scratch to 
crawl through certain files for tasks with particular tags or whether there are 
functions that I can leverage to do this (such as some of the functions upon 
which the agenda depends, etc). I am way out of my depth on this one, but with 
a few pointers I feel like it may be a good way for me to keep learning....

TIA

— Michael



On Aug 3, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> Here's my challenge:
> 
> I manage a lot of complex, overlapping projects. One of these projects is a 
> regular newsletter. Half of the content that goes out in this newsletter is 
> created by the newsletter program itself. The other half is the result of 
> several other projects, which produce reports and articles that get published 
> in the newsletter. The publishing task in all those other projects are tagged 
> with an 'nnpublish' tag. 
> 
> I want to be able to work on the newsletter project in one place. I don't 
> want to maintain duplicate tasks in wildly different places. (You can imagine 
> how out of hand this would get.) What I want to do is INCLUDE all of the 
> other publishing tasks programmatically in the org file that I use to manage 
> the newsletter. I am completely stymied as to how to do this.
> 
> The only information that I've had a change to look at that touches on the 
> matter of including other files is in section 11.4 of the manual. If I'm not 
> mistaken, it applies only to export. And the only processing that can be 
> applied to the file being included is a limitation on which lines to include. 
> Unless I'm missing something, this isn't going to meet my needs. I'm 
> wondering if perhaps I need to be looking at code blocks. Maybe something 
> that uses agenda code to grab items and then renders them in place. Oh hell, 
> I don't know.
> 
> I'm pretty lost as to how to pursue this. Any thoughts?