[Orgmode] Re: Project management > Dynamic block per tag + [Babel]

[Matt Lundin]

Francesco Pizzolante
<fpz-djc/address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Org to manage a project.
>
> I need to output a tasks list for every of my colleagues, person per person.
>
> I'm currently using tags to assing people to tasks (even if I'm not completely
> convinced that this is the right way to go).
>
> What I would like is to generate a dynamic block for each person with all
> tasks assigned to that person. This means, list all headings with a given tag.
>
> Could someone tell me how to do that?

I'm not sure if this is what you are after, but one way is to use custom
agenda commands and then to save the agenda as a txt file:

The following pages have good information on creating block agenda with
custom commands:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-custom-agenda-commands.php
http://orgmode.org/manual/Block-agenda.html#Block-agenda

E.g., 

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'org-agenda-custom-commands 
             '("D" "Delegated tasks" 
               ((tags-todo "Jenny")
                (tags-todo "Archie")
                (tags-todo "George"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Once you create a custom agenda command, you can simply save it as txt
by typing C-x C-w and the filename + relevant extension.

Another option is to use a babel block and org-map-entries to spit out a
simple list of tasks for each person:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+source: tasklist
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var person="me"
  (let (tasklist)
    (org-map-entries 
     (lambda ()
       (add-to-list 'tasklist 
                    (concat "- " (nth 4 (org-heading-components)))))
     (concat person "/!TODO") 'agenda)
    (mapconcat 'identity tasklist "\n"))
#+end_src

#+call: tasklist(person="Jenny")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Add this to an org file, replace Jenny with the appropriate name, and
type C-c C-c to spit out a list (of all TODO items tagged with the
relevant name) that looks like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+results: tasklist(person="Jenny")
#+begin_example
- Call George
- Call Archie
- Estimate cost of widgets
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You could do something similar with dynamic block function.

HTH,
Matt