Re: [Orgmode] Tag table entries?

[Johan Ekh]

Thanks Dan!
My idea was to go through a long imported table and quickly categorize the different rows
into a number of predefined categories, without having to actually type the category for
each row. Can I do that? 

If babel is a way, I think I would prefer to use python as I am familiar with it. But I have not used
it with babel, is that possible?

Best regards,
Johan

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Dan Davison <address@hidden> wrote:

Johan Ekh <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
> I wonder if it is possible to tag rows in a table?
>
> For example, if  I have a table of expenses, i.e. columns with "date", "note" and "sum",
> and then want to group the entries into different categories such as "groceries", "car" etc.
>
> Can I do this someway?

Hi Johan,

You can't attach metadata such as tags to table rows. Two things come to
mind.

1. If you just want the table for visual purposes (as opposed for doing
  calculations with it), then you could use column-view. I.e. you would
  have a subtree for groceries and a subtree for car; categories such
  as date, note and sum would be stored in properties.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-view.html#Column-view

Visibility cycling works in column view so you can group and ungroup the rows.

[is there anyway of creating a normal Org table from a column view
"table"?]

2. org-babel: If you're happy with a suitable supported language, then
  store the category label in a column and you can transform the master
  table however you want. R would be a convenient language for working
  with a table like this.

Dan



>
> Best regards,
> Johan

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