Re: [Orgmode] How can I include body of tree as DESCRIPTION: tag using org-export-icalendar

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 6:02, Ben Alexander wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have read the org-mode info pages, and the FAQ online, and they've 
> been a great source of help.  I'm happily using org-mode on a Mac OS X 
> system, and exporting to an iCalendar file and syncing with iCal.  It 
> works pretty well.  I then use iSync to export my calendar to my 
> mobile phone, so I can take my TODO list out for the day without 
> burning trees (and ink cartridges).
>
> There are two features that would really be nice.  The high priority 
> one is some way of including some amount of the body of a TODO 
> headline into the DESCRIPTION field.

This will be done by default in 5.10, limited to 100 character.  The 
limit
can be configured with `org-icalendar-include-body'.

> The second feature request is a way to limit my exporting to a single 
> tag or two (e.g. @PHONE and @ERRANDS).  I think all I need to do is 
> learn Lisp and write an org-agenda-skip-function to match a tag.  I'm 
> just not sure how to apply that just in the case of exporting to my 
> phone.  I don't really care what shows up in iCal, because if I can 
> read that, I can read my org-mode file.

This is currently not possible, export always pushes everything out.
One work-around might be to first make a sparse tree with the stuff you 
want, and then export only the visible part with

C-c C-e v i

or so.

- Carsten