Re: [O] agenda column view and/or location property visible in normal view

[Bastien]

Hi Eric,

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:

> due to my increasing use of MobileOrg and, as a result, the
> synchronisation it provides with Google's calendar, I am finding that
> using the :LOCATION: property in an appointment in org is quite
> useful.  However, most of the time I use org's agenda view to see my
> appointments.  I have a few questions, if I may:
>
> 1. I can use column view in the agenda to see specific
>      properties.  However, column view doesn't work well with the time
>      grid.  Is it possible to include the time information, as shown in
>      the normal agenda view, in a column view?  I currentlly have
>
>      : (setq org-agenda-overriding-columns-format "%5TODO %40ITEM %LOCATION 
> %TAGS")
>
>      which works quite well except for the absence of time
>      information.

Maybe you can use %TIMESTAMP for the time?

> 2. Can the column view be customised to get rid of the | characters?
>      They make sense sometimes but I find them ugly in my agenda view.
>
> 3. alternatively, can one customise the line for the agenda view to
>      include specific properties (i.e. LOCATION in my case)?  Probably
>      not... if not, it would be nice to have a fully customisable
>      org-agenda-line-format variable similar to what gnus provides for
>      summary lines, group lines, etc.  Consider this a feature request
>      for org 9.0.  ;-)

See `org-agenda-prefix-format' -- maybe you can play with the %(exp)
construct and try to retrieve infos with `org-entry-get' (which see.)

Not tested...

> As usual, none of the above is critical in any sense!  Just me finding
> yet more reasons to avoid getting real work done... ;-)

Tested ;)

-- 
 Bastien