Re: [O] Filter in Captured Column View

[Juan Pechiar]

Hi Mats,

You can add

     :skip-empty-rows t

to the columnview header, so that rows with no Status property will
not show.

This, however, will also hide the "Release" headers. Workaround is to
add a dummy 'Status' property to these.

Doc here: http://orgmode.org/manual/Capturing-column-view.html

.j.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:38:52PM +0100, Mats Kindahl wrote:
> I am using the capture column view to capture the contents of a subtree
> at the beginning of the subtree. However, there are a lot of sections
> that do not contain anything interesting for the capture in question, so
> I would like to filter out anything except trees with certain tags.
>
> So, for the example below, it shows some headers at the beginning that I
> would like to avoid showing. Only in information on the individual
> releases should be shown as groups.
>
> Best wishes,
> Mats Kindahl
>
>     * Report
>       :PROPERTIES:
>       :COLUMNS:  %ITEM %Status
>       :END:
>
>     #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 3 :id local
>     | ITEM                     | Status    |
>     |--------------------------+-----------|
>     | * Report                 |           |
>     |--------------------------+-----------|
>     | ** Uninteresting summary |           |
>     |--------------------------+-----------|
>     | ** Details               |           |
>     |--------------------------+-----------|
>     | *** Release 1            |           |
>     | **** Feature #1          | Design    |
>     |--------------------------+-----------|
>     | *** Release 2            |           |
>     | **** Feature #2          | Confused  |
>     | **** Feature #3          | Completed |
>     | **** Feature #4          | Coding    |
>     |--------------------------+-----------|
>     | *** Release 3            |           |
>     | **** Feature #5          | Baffled   |
>     #+END:
>
>     ** Uninteresting summary
>     ** Details
>     *** Release 1
>
>     **** Feature #1
>         :PROPERTIES:
>         :Status:   Design
>         :END:
>
>     *** Release 2
>
>     **** Feature #2
>         :PROPERTIES:
>         :Status:   Confused
>         :END:
>
>     **** Feature #3
>         :PROPERTIES:
>         :Status:   Completed
>         :END:
>
>     **** Feature #4
>         :PROPERTIES:
>         :Status:   Coding
>         :END:
>
>     *** Release 3
>
>     **** Feature #5
>         :PROPERTIES:
>         :Status:   Baffled
>         :END: