[Orgmode] Re: Archiving

[Bernt Hansen]

address@hidden (J. David Boyd) writes:

> I've read all the archiving information, and I _think_ that I understand
> it, bu there is my question.
>
>
> I would like to put archived entries into a file, but keep the headlines
> that existed when they were 'live', so that when I show them in the
> clock, they line up under the parents that owned them.  That way I can
> see how much total time I have spent on certain projects, and just by
> changing the 'agenda-with-archives' to something else, _not_ see them if
> I don't want to.
>
> Is this possible?   Does some guru know how to do this?

I don't know of an automatic way to do this but I have this manually set
up in my org-files.

I keep level 1 headings as categories/topics and archive level 2
subtrees only.

Each of the level 1 headings has a property that defines where the
archived items should go - so they end up in the same tree structure in
the archive file.

,----
| * Appointments
|   :PROPERTIES:
|   :CATEGORY: Appt
|   :ARCHIVE:  %s_archive::* Appointments
|   :END:      
|   ...
| * Miscellaneous
|   :PROPERTIES:
|   :CATEGORY: todo
|   :ARCHIVE: %s_archive::* Miscellaneous
|   :END:
`----

Regards,
Bernt