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[Orgmode] Re: Agenda clock reporting


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: Agenda clock reporting
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:41:01 +0100


On Jan 3, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

On Dec 22, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

Hi Carsten,

I use the agenda clock report during the end of my day.  Would it be
difficult to have it include the currently clocking task if a clock is
active?

I clock billable and nonbillable tasks during the day.  If I want to
stop working at 8 billable hours I currently run the clock report and
then find the current active clock entry (last one on the page with
l'
in the agenda) and manually add the time accumulated to the clock
report
to see when I'm done for the day.  This is a bit tedious and error
prone.

I'm thinking that since agenda clock reports are not permanent it
wouldn't hurt to include the current clocking item in the agenda
report if that is easy to do.  I've been digging around in the clock
report code in my limited spare time but haven't yet made any useful
progress on this task.

Any pointers on where to make this modification would be appreciated.

Hi Bernt,

I think the right place would be `org-clock-sum'.  Right now,
this looks only for complete clock lines. You could modify the regexp
to check for incomplete lines (first time stamp only) and then check
if the org-clock-marker points to the current line. If yes, you could
use the current time as the end time and proceed.

Send me a patch if you get this to work, with a customization variable
to turn this off.

HTH

Yes it does thanks. I found the logic that uses the regexp for parsing
the times and summing them in reverse up to the headline in
org-clock-sum.  I haven't modified the regexp yet but was planning
something similar to what you describe above.

  - org-clock-sum
  - Runs through headings in reverse order
  - counts clock entries bottom up to headline
  - adds a text property to the headline with total time
  - need to find out if current heading is clocking

Yes, the alternative approach would be to *not* modify the regexp, but to
check if org-clock-hd-marker points to the current headline and then
add the time since the clock started (in `org-clock-start-time') to the appropriate field in the ltimes vector before extracting the total time. So you would do this as the first thing when you find a headline, and the proceed normally.

Sounds simpler than modifying the regexp and would not cause any problems with other incomplete clock entries that may have been left behind and never
properly resolved......

- Carsten


- add entry for open clock time with closing time to get correct total
  - regexp needs to match open clock entries
  - for open clock entry matches set time to zero
  - reset time if this is the current clocking entry

I'll post the patch whenever it gets done.

Thanks!
Bernt

- Carsten







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