Re: [O] Export datetree item subtree with its date, not the file's

[Göktuğ Kayaalp]

Hello,

Thanks  for your  response.  As  you suggest,  I switched  to using  the
EXPORT_DATE property.  It works as expected.

Now a little problem  that I have is that I  cannot have timestamps like
«10 September 2015» in my exports, but a literal inactive timestamp.

This is because in  the related capture template, I have  to use `%u' to
add a timestamp, which adds an inactive timestamp, reusing the date that
I entered into  the datetree prompt.  There is the  %<...> directive for
the capture  templates which allows  me to put in  a time format,  as in
`format-time-string',  but it  gets its  value from  `current-time', not
from the date  of the datetree prompt.  Now  I do not know if  this is a
feature or  a bug, but if  I want to  copy over lecture notes  from some
time ago, it's a problem.

-gk

On Sat, Oct 17 2015 at 10:33:08 am EEST, Kyle Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> address@hidden (Göktuğ Kayaalp) writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is my  first post to this  group, so I'm sorry if  I'm skipping any
>> conventions.
>
> Welcome to the list.  Sorry for the lack of responses to your post.
> It's a high traffic list, and sometimes posts fall through.
>
>> My overall structure is like this:
> [...]
>>     #+DATE:
>>     * 2015
>>     ** 2015-09 September
>>     *** 2015-09-16 Wednesday
>>     **** İtalyanca Dil Uygulamaları I :2015_2016:ITDE2016:
>>     [2015-09-16 Wed]
> [...]
>> When  I export-subtree  the bottommost  entry, I  want the  date in  the
>> exported pdf  to be 2015-09-16,  not today,  nor the date  in "#+DATE:",
>> which is  deliberately empty to  not let a wrong  date to appear  in the
>> exported file.
>>
>> I tried  setting a date property  which didn't have an  effect, and also
>> adding a "#+DATE:  [a date...]" under every lecture  note entry heading,
>> in which case the  date of the last entry in the file  got used, so if I
>> exported the notes from 2015-09-16, and the last time I added a note was
>> the 19th, the exported file had the date 2015-09-19.
>
> Have you tried the EXPORT_DATE property?  I believe it'd look something
> like this
>
>     * 2015
>     ** 2015-09 September
>     *** 2015-09-16 Wednesday
>     **** İtalyanca Dil Uygulamaları I :2015_2016:ITDE2016:
>     :PROPERTIES:
>     :EXPORT_DATE: 2015-09-16
>     :END:
>
> which you could export using with export scope set to "subtree".
>
> --
> Kyle

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