Re: [Orgmode] recursive todo/checkbox statistics

[Alexander]

Hi,

I've now switched to following the development version because several
things that I've wanted have been implemented in the short time I've
been using org-mode already! And I was impressed with orgmode at the
outset...

I tried version 6.26trans, and the hierarchical checkbox statistics
works as expected. But I can't get the same behavior for TODO's. I
just wanted to check that this is correct - that I'm not doing
something wrong.

Maybe I should explain more what I use org-mode for in this case to
make things clearer. I use it to keep track of the readings I have to
do for a qualifying exam. I categorize the readings according to
topic, and then track the progress of each reading as a TODO. The
reason I want to be able to check the global number of readings is to
make sure that I'm keeping the right pace. The list is pretty long
(223 entries in ~20 topics), so it's cumbersome to do by hand.

This is a better representation of the file I use:

* readings [0/0]
  :PROPERTIES:
  :COOKIE_DATA: todo
  :END:
** topic a
*** TODO book 1
*** TODO book 2
** topic b
*** TODO article 1
*** TODO article 2
** topic c
*** TODO book 1
*** TODO article 2

So is it possible to have the cookie at the top count the TODO's at
the lower levels?

If not, it's not a big problem really - I can count them reasonably
using grep and wc, but it just seems like a combination of
hierarchical-checkbox-statistics and COOKIE_DATA: todo would do it?

Best,

Alexander


On 5/19/09, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
> We have had the same discussion recently about checkboxes,
> and added a variable org-hierarchical-checkbox-statistics.
>
> However, my personal view is that the outline hierarchy is
> different, because if you are organizing tasks into a hierarchy,
> so it does not make sense to add TODO's on different levels.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On May 19, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Alexander wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Forgive me if there is an obvious way to do this that I haven't found.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to calculate the total number of  tasks for a
>> file or a subtree?
>> For example, if the checkbox/todo progress cookie would calculate the
>> number of checkboxes/todos recursively for a subtree.
>>
>> so that this:
>>
>> * TODO heading 1 [1/3]
>> ** DONE task A
>> ** TODO task B
>> ** TODO task C
>> *** TODO task C1
>> *** TODO task C2
>>
>> would be this instead:
>>
>> * TODO heading 1 [1/5]
>> ** DONE task A
>> ** TODO task B
>> ** TODO task C
>> *** TODO task C1
>> *** TODO task C2
>>
>> I would be fine with any other solution as well, it was just that it
>> seems closest to the checkbox/todo functionality.
>>
>> Thanks you,
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>>
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