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Re: [O] how to include items (filtered) from other org files?
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Michael C Gilbert |
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Re: [O] how to include items (filtered) from other org files? |
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Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:14:31 -0700 |
I'm going to narrow my question a bit because by now I've figured out that the
most likely course to follow should be the use of a dynamic block. Is that
correct?
What I'm not sure of is whether I need to develop a function from scratch to
crawl through certain files for tasks with particular tags or whether there are
functions that I can leverage to do this (such as some of the functions upon
which the agenda depends, etc). I am way out of my depth on this one, but with
a few pointers I feel like it may be a good way for me to keep learning....
TIA
— Michael
On Aug 3, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Here's my challenge:
>
> I manage a lot of complex, overlapping projects. One of these projects is a
> regular newsletter. Half of the content that goes out in this newsletter is
> created by the newsletter program itself. The other half is the result of
> several other projects, which produce reports and articles that get published
> in the newsletter. The publishing task in all those other projects are tagged
> with an 'nnpublish' tag.
>
> I want to be able to work on the newsletter project in one place. I don't
> want to maintain duplicate tasks in wildly different places. (You can imagine
> how out of hand this would get.) What I want to do is INCLUDE all of the
> other publishing tasks programmatically in the org file that I use to manage
> the newsletter. I am completely stymied as to how to do this.
>
> The only information that I've had a change to look at that touches on the
> matter of including other files is in section 11.4 of the manual. If I'm not
> mistaken, it applies only to export. And the only processing that can be
> applied to the file being included is a limitation on which lines to include.
> Unless I'm missing something, this isn't going to meet my needs. I'm
> wondering if perhaps I need to be looking at code blocks. Maybe something
> that uses agenda code to grab items and then renders them in place. Oh hell,
> I don't know.
>
> I'm pretty lost as to how to pursue this. Any thoughts?