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Re: [O] Remaining Work Report
From: |
Manish |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Remaining Work Report |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:58:46 +0530 |
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Myles English wrote:
>
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:33:17 +0100, Sebastien Vauban said:
>
> > #+COLUMNS: %40ITEM(Task) %6Effort(Estim.){:} * Context
>
> > The question I'm trying to give an answer to is: *what's the
> > remaining number of hours (or days) to finish my project*?
>
> I have just been through this myself so I hope I will be able to
> help.
>
> To exclude DONE items from the columnview I moved the Effort
> property out of the way to the Old_Effort property when the state
> changes to DONE:
>
> ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | (require 'org)
> | (defun my-move-effort-if-done ()
> | "For TOC style columnview table. Don't want to include DONE
> | items in the TODO Effort column so copy Effort to Old_Effort
> | property"
> | (interactive)
> | ( when (string= (org-get-todo-state) "DONE")
> | (member (org-get-todo-state) org-done-keywords)
> | ;; check if changing to DONE
> | (org-entry-put nil "Old_Effort" (org-get-effort))
> | ;; get the :Effort: property
> | ;(message (format "Got: %s when changin to %s" ( org-get-effort )
> (org-get-todo-state)))
> | (setq org-clock-effort (org-get-effort))
> | (org-entry-delete nil "Effort")))
> |
> | (setq org-after-todo-state-change-hook nil)
> |
> | (add-hook 'org-after-todo-state-change-hook
> | 'my-move-effort-if-done)
> `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Unlike your example I made heavy use of inline tasks and also wanted
> heading numbers instead of asterisks, so that the final table looks
> like a table of contents with estimated times remaining. I had to
> do some more things to achieve this and can elaborate if you like.
>
This is a very nice solution. Please do elaborate on the other steps
when you have time.
Cheers!
--
Manish