Re: [Orgmode] Showing scheduled blocked tasks [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:34 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to get a TODO tags view in my daily agenda just shows  
> the first TODO of a “Project” (a la the “next action” in GTD). This  
> allows me to have a TODO “tags” block in my custom agenda that  
> doesn’t run to several pages: I just see the next action for each  
> project, and, as each action is marked DONE, the next one pops up.
>
> I have *almost* managed to get this working by turning on org- 
> enforce-todo-dependencies, setting “ORDERED: t” as a property on  
> projects, and then using (setq org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks  
> 'invisible).
>
> However, this hides scheduled tasks from the agenda view if they are  
> also blocked (I want them to show up if they are scheduled  
> regardless). It seems that org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks is not  
> supported as a local setting on custom commands, so I can’t just  
> make blocked tasks visible in the agenda view and invisible in the  
> TODO tags query.

Hi Matthew,

what do you mean by "is not supported as a local option"?  Does that  
mean you miss it in the customize menu for local option, or does that  
mean you have added it using the "any variable" entry and then it does  
not have the desired effect?

> Can anyone help? I’d be happy just to write my own skip function,  
> but can’t actually find the API to check for blocked task status.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew.
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- Carsten