Re: [O] observations on updating to recent org

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

> I guess that's an interesting question about what makes sense.   Here's
> the actual todo entry, with just a few words redacted.  I don't see why
> someone would want VEVENTS for this kind of history, but I suppose maybe
> that's what you get when you turn on events from inactive timestamps.
>
>   ***** TODO [#C] order more [redacted]
>         SCHEDULED: <2014-04-28 Mon .+4w>
>         - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2013-11-07 Thu 10:30]
>         - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2013-08-05 Mon 16:27]
>         - State "DONE"       from "WAITING"    [2013-06-04 Tue 10:27]
>         - State "WAITING"    from "TODO"       [2013-05-28 Tue 11:19] \\
>           ordered via [redacted]
>         - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2013-03-25 Mon 23:16]
>           laura did
>         - State "DONE"       from "WAITING"    [2013-01-08 Tue 11:49]
>         - State "WAITING"    from "TODO"       [2012-12-18 Tue 20:41] \\
>           ordered
>         - State "TODO"       from "WAITING"    [2012-09-20 Thu 13:05]
>         - State "WAITING"    from "TODO"       [2012-09-13 Thu 10:01] \\
>           ordered
>         - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2012-07-12 Thu 10:39]
>         - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2012-06-04 Mon 14:22]
>         - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2012-03-27 Tue 08:54]
>         - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2011-10-01 Sat 08:10]
>         :PROPERTIES:
>         :ID:       b617c8e4-c8f2-11e0-8735-000476353fb4
>         :LAST_REPEAT: [2013-11-07 Thu 10:30]
>         :END:

By default, no VEVENT should be created from any timestamp in your
example.

>> By default, it shouldn't do this for inactive timestamps, though. See
>> `org-icalendar-with-timestamps'.
>
> I didn't try to turn this on.  My icalendar-relevant settings are
>
>       (setq org-icalendar-alarm-time 10)
>       (setq org-icalendar-use-scheduled nil)
>       (setq org-icalendar-use-deadline nil)
>
> I am trying to get ics entries only for headlines with active
> timestamps.

It is a bug then. I'll look into it in a few hours.

> It's not a problem for me any more.  It just seems really unfortunate
> for others in the general case to have extra content in every headline
> when it isn't necessary.

If there are few exported headlines in the document, it is also possible
to keep `org-icalendar-store-UID' to nil and add ID value manually for
each of them.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou