[Orgmode] Re: does #+PROPERTY still exist ?

[Noorul Islam K M]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Noorul Islam K M <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > In the below example 
>> > 
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > #+PROPERTY: Age 25
>> > #+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Age
>> > 
>> > * Heading 1
>> > * Heading 2
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > 
>> > When I try to use column view to edit the property it is not using the
>> > format that I mentioned at the file level.
>> > 
>> > But the following one works
>> > 
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > * Heading 1
>> >   :PROPERTIES:
>> >   :Age: 25
>> >   :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Age
>> >   :END:
>> > * Heading 2
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > 
>> > Looks like the file level settings are not working.
>> > 
>> 
>> If I evaluate the form
>> 
>>     (org-entry-get (point) "Age" t)
>> 
>> with the point at any heading, I get "25". OTOH, even with
>> org-use-property-inheritance set to t, column view does not
>> show it. Ergo, it's a column view bug.
>> 
>> In org-columns-compute, I see
>> 
>>       ...
>>       (while (re-search-backward re beg t)
>>      (setq sumpos (match-beginning 0)
>>            last-level level
>>            level (org-outline-level)
>>            val (org-entry-get nil property)
>>               ...
>> 
>> I suspect the val line needs to be
>> 
>>            val (org-entry-get nil property org-use-property-inheritance)
>> 
>> instead.
>> 
>
> No, that's not it. I think the basic problem is that
> org-entry-properties ignores inheritance altogether (in particular,
> it parses property names explicitly instead of using org-entry-get)[1].
>
> Nick
>
> [1] ... but it's late, I'm tired and I may very well be wrong - again.

Well, following one works. It looks like we need _ALL suffix for
inherited properties. 

----------------------------------------------
#+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %10Age
#+PROPERTY: Age_ALL 25

* Heading 1
* Heading 2
----------------------------------------------

Thanks and Regards
Noorul