Re: [Orgmode] Re: Only Clock in Top-Level Task

[Carsten Dominik]

On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Markus Heller <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Q> Bernt Hansen wrote:
> > > Markus Heller <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > This is what my project.org looks like:
> > > >
> > > > * STARTED My Project                           :NEXT:   
> > > >  :LOGBOOK:...
> > > >
> > > > ** TODO Task 1 [0/2]
> > > > *** TODO Sub-Task 1
> > > > *** TODO Sub-Task 2
> > > >
> > > > This is what I'd like to do:
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to be able to clock in from Task 1, Sub-Task 1, or Sub- 
> > > > Task
> > > > 2, but make org-mode add the clock entries into the :LOGBOOK: of My
> > > > Project, i.e. the top-level task/project.  In other words, I'm not
> > > > interested in keeping track of how much time I spent on Task 1,  
> > > > or any
> > > > of the sub-tasks, I'm only interested in the time I've spent on
> > > > working on My Project.
> > > >
> > > > Is there anyway to do this?
> > >
> > > C-c C-x C-d will total time for a task including times on a subtask.
> > >
> > > -Bernt
> >
> > Hi Bernt,
> >
> > I saw this option in the manual, but this is not quite what I
> > want. What I'd like to be able to is clock in from any sub-task and  
> > be
> > clocked into the *top-level* task, not the task I'm clocking in from.
> >
> > Is that feasible?  Or am I too confusing?
>
> There is nothing I'm aware of that is built in which will accomplish
> what you want.  You might be able to use the org-clock-in-hook and
> custom lisp code to clock in the top-most parent task.

Indeed, this is not implemented, and I have a hard time seeing why  
this would be desirable?  Summing i always hierarchical, so the time  
will be shown in the parent time anyway.

- Carsten