Re: [O] Anniversaries from BBDB

[Marco Wahl]

Hi!

> I am having troubles to get the anniversaries from BBDB to my agenda view. 
> Following the
> instruction in 10.3.1: 
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Weekly_002fdaily-agenda.html,  I add the the the
> following to my only one agenda file ("agenda.org"):
>
> * Anniversaries
> :PROPERTIES:
> :CATEGORY: Anniv
> :END:
> %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries)
>
> In bbdb I query "John Doe" and try C-o with cursor in the record. I get an 
> error: Buffer is
> read-only: #<buffer *BBDB*>. So I insert a new field with bbdb-insert-field 
> and name it
> "anniversary". I completed the date "09-23" to finish the process and save.
> I expected to see the anniversary in my agenda view when I push C-a a.  No 
> anniversary whatsoever.
> I've tried to toggle diary: (setq org-agenda-include-diary t) without 
> success. 
> I am using emacs 26.1. I've also try in a fresh emacs install with same 
> result. Can someone help
> me? Thanks.
>
>

The format of the anniversary date is expected to be

YYYY-MM-DD

e.g.

2000-09-23

AFAICT.  See also variable `org-bbdb-extract-date-fun' for more
flexibility.


Ciao,
-- 
Marco