Re: [O] Preparing a cost estimate with Org

[Lele Gaifax]

Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Lele,
>
> On 2019-01-24 at 07:59 -0800, Lele Gaifax <address@hidden>
> wrote...
>> The only problem with this approach is that it requires a manual
>> intervention to build the "cost estimate" table: first I recompute the
>> "efforts" one with C-c C-c, then I copy its body to the other table,
>> delete the third column and eventually do a C-c C-c on its TBLFM to
>> recompute the costs.
>
> You could perhaps do this with code, so it is only one C-c C-c?
> Alternatively, is OrgAggregate useful?
> https://github.com/tbanel/orgaggregate

Thank you Ken, orgaggregate is really intriguing, I will surely try it out
soon!

I did not understand what you mean with "do this with code" though: some kind
of a macro or what?

>> b) filter out entries with a particular tag/property, so that I can
>> keep the original estimate
>
> Here is a hack to filter clock entries by tag:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode//2009-09/msg00205.html
>
> Finally, the Clock Table documentation 
> https://orgmode.org/manual/The-clock-table.html mentions
> ‘:match’ with link to
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Matching-tags-and-properties.html#Matching-tags-and-properties
>  which
> lets you do negative matches in one of their examples. Can you include only 
> relevant tags, or
> exclude the tags you want to exclude using that syntax?

Thanks again, I will read those links!

ciao, lele.
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