Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

[Eddward DeVilla]

On 6/19/07, Scott Jaderholm <address@hidden> wrote:
> I see a property list under each heading as a way of doing columns,
> albeit in a less user friendly way. I can see this being useful
> anywhere you have hierarchal data to which you would like to add
> structure. Currently, I normally transfer it into a table, but it
> would be nice to be able to leave things as a list and still define
> some columns. See
> http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omnioutliner/features/multicolumn.jpg
>
> Perhaps a property list has the advantage of being easier for the
> programmers and being a better way to store the data in a text file,
> but I think it would be really sweet if an interface were built on top
> of it so that the user saw something similar to the picture above.

Seems to me you could have an agenda-like view where you give a
selection criteria and a list of fields to display.  I guess you could
wrap it in a table if you like.  At this point we'd have invented SQL
queries for org-mode.  I can't decide yet if I think it's overkill or
cool.  It seemed cool until I realized it was functionally just a
select-where statement.  But that is really all I was after. Dynamic
reports from all my org-files.

Edd