Re: [Orgmode] Re: monthly report

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Micah Anderson wrote:

> * Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> [2009-03-18 04:42-0400]:
> > On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Micah Anderson wrote:
> > > Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > On May 25, 2007, at 3:41, Steven Lumos wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Being yet another planner switcher, I'm used to using planner-
> > > > > report-
> > > > > generate to assist me with writing a monthly activity report.  I
> > > > > don't
> > > > > need fine-grained time tracking, or even most of what planner-
> > > > > report-
> > > > > generate does--it would be ideal to get just a list of TODOs that
> > > > > were
> > > > > closed between two dates and then I'll look at it while I type a  
> > > > > few
> > > > > sentences in an email buffer.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there already an easy way to "get a list" (I guess that a  
> > > > > sparse
> > > > > tree would be most convenient for me) of TODOs marked as closed
> > > > > within
> > > > > some date range?
>
> [snip: lisp function (26 lines)]
>
> > > Ok, I tried this and I'm not sure what it did, if anything. I get  
> > > the
> > > mini-buffer saying, 'Specified time is not representable' I've tried
> > > various date range possibilities, and can't get it to work.
> >
> > It seems that you are specifying the date in an invalid way.
> > What are you typing when prompted for a date?
>
> Ok, I restarted emacs and tried again, and now I am not given this
> mini-buffer message at all. On restart, I found an error in my .emacs,
> which could have been causing this issue. Chalk that up to confused
> internal state I guess.
>
> However, org-closed-in-range still doesn't seem to be doing anything
> interesting, as far as I can tell. It folded up my org file, but thats
> about it.

Do you have CLOSED: <....> timestamps in the buffer?
You do get these by setting

(setq org-log-done 'time)

or by doing

#+STARTUP: logdone

- Carsten

> Maybe there is a better way for me to get at what I want, and I just
> haven't found it yet (I am pretty new at org) and debugging this might
> not be the best thing to do if there is something better to solve my
> need. I basically just need to, at the end of the week, produce a  
> report
> of what I've worked on for that week, both things I finished, but also
> things that are still in progress. Including the time spent is useful
> too. I can go into the agenda and hit 'R' to get a time-table at the  
> end
> of the page, but I need a more granual day-by-day breakdown (Monday:
> 4hrs, worked on X, Y and completed Z).

You can configure the clock report to be delivered for days by
setting the

:step day

property in org-agenda-clock-report-parameter-plist


Or you can switch to a daily agenda (the "d") key
and look at the clock report day by day.

Pressing "l" or "C-u l" turns on the log info for days, showing
you what you did on a particular day, provided that you have
recorded that informtation by setting org-log-done, of by clocking time,
or by recording state changes.  All this is in the manual.

HTH

- Carsten


> thanks for your response!
> micah