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Re: clock-table and hooking that into org-capture file+olp+datetree
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Christopher Causer |
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Re: clock-table and hooking that into org-capture file+olp+datetree |
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Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:32:42 +0000 |
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Cyrus-JMAP/3.5.0-alpha0-84-gfc141fe8b8-fm-20210125.001-gfc141fe8 |
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, at 12:53, Richard Lawrence wrote:
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun org-update-clocktable-on-date (date)
> (save-excursion
> ;; open the file containing the datetree:
> (find-file (concat org-directory "/diary.org"))
> ;; jump to the subtree for the given date:
> ;; note: date must look like (m d y) where all three values are integers
> (org-datetree-find-date-create date)
> ;; narrow to the subtree for this date, so we don't update
> ;; any other clocktables
> (org-narrow-to-subtree)
> ;; update the clock report, or create it if it doesn't exist
> ;; note: we pass a prefix argument to tell org-clock-report to
> ;; update the first clocktable it finds in the (narrowed) buffer
> (org-clock-report t)
> ;; widen to the whole buffer again
> (widen)))
> #+end_src
This is wonderful Richard, and a great help to me. I had no idea of the
org-datree-find-date-create, and the argument to org-clock-report cuts out a
lot of my code.
> Note that org-datetree-find-date has a slightly annoying interface, in
> that you need to provide a list of three integers representing a
> calendar date.
Yes, that is a little awkward. What I did think of using was substrings to
extract the date from the picker interface.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun org-date-picker-to-list ()
(let* ((date-string (org-read-date))
(year (substring date-string 0 4))
(month (substring date-string 5 7))
(day (substring date-string 8 10)))
(mapcar 'string-to-number (list month day year))))
#+END_SRC
Does that look sensible?
My two next things to tackle are
1. A hook to run the function when I run org-capture.
2. Changing the org-clock-report options in your function above, but not the
defaults.
For the second point, is there some trick to swap a global variable for the run
of a function? The variable in this case would be org-clocktable-defaults.
Thank you so much Richard. You've probably saved me days of going through the
org-mode documentation and source.