Re: [Orgmode] Re: Sorting TODOs with time-up

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:53 PM, David Engster wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> > On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:03 PM, David Engster wrote:
> > > While browsing through chapter 10, I got the impression that the
> > > different views are just different filters, but that I'm always
> > > dealing with the same agenda mode, where each entry carries the same
> > > information.
> >
> > Actually, I think this is so, entries always do carry the same
> > information in all these views.  remember that, a Matt said,
> > time-up is time-of-day only.
>
> Yes. What I wanted to say is that when it do "C-u C-x =" on an entry  
> in
> the daily/weekly agenda, I see properties like
>
>  date                 (4 1 2009)
>  day                  733498
>  dotime               [Show]
>  extra                "Scheduled: "
>  org-day-cnt          3
>  time                 "12:00......"
>  time-of-day          1200
>
> which are not existent or 'nil' in the TODO list (but can be parsed
> through the org-hd-marker information).
>
> The reason I'm dealing with this, aside from sorting, is that I'd like
> to extract date information from (custom) agenda views, so that I can
> display them in other programs, e.g. in special Gnus groups. I don't
> know yet if that really makes sense, but since I'm mostly living in
> Gnus, it would probably have advantages for me.

You might want to take a brute-force approach then, mapping
over entries with `org-map-entries' and getting all the
properties with (org-entry-properties), and then do any
processing/sorting etc yourself.
You might also want to take a look at org-collector.el, by Eric Schulte.

Regards

- Carsten