Re: [O] Bug: No property change from ‘org-clock- sum’

[Carsten Dominik]

On 7.4.2011, at 23:51, Ben Finney wrote:

> Howdy all,
> 
> When I use ‘org-clock-sum’ in Org-mode version 7.4, nothing appears to
> happen: the items in the subtree are not updated and no ‘CLOCKSUM’
> property appears.

CLOCKSUM is a special property which is only a way to access clocking
information, but the property is never set literally.
org-invoice was broken due to changes in the property code in org.el,
fixed now.

HTH

- Carsten

> 
> Org-mode version 7.4
> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of
> 2010-12-12 on porpora, modified by Debian
> 
> 
> I'm trying to generate an invoice report using ‘org-invoice.el’.
> 
> The items on which I want to report have clock entries, generated
> correctly with ‘org-clock-in’ and ‘org-clock-out’. An example:
> 
> =====
> * foo
> ** bar
> *** [2011-03-24 Thu]
>    CLOCK: [2011-03-24 Thu 14:15]--[2011-03-24 Thu 18:03] =>  3:48
>    CLOCK: [2011-03-24 Thu 09:10]--[2011-03-24 Thu 12:27] =>  3:17
> *** [2011-03-23 Wed]
>    CLOCK: [2011-03-23 Wed 14:10]--[2011-03-23 Wed 18:16] =>  4:06
>    CLOCK: [2011-03-23 Wed 09:30]--[2011-03-23 Wed 13:10] =>  3:40
> *** [2011-03-22 Tue]
>    CLOCK: [2011-03-22 Tue 14:00]--[2011-03-22 Tue 17:30] =>  3:30
>    CLOCK: [2011-03-22 Tue 08:58]--[2011-03-22 Tue 13:31] =>  4:33
> =====
> 
> According to the doc string for ‘org-invoice-report’, the ‘CLOCKSUM’
> property on each item in the subtree will be used for the report.
> 
> So apparently I need to ‘org-clock-sum’ on the tree before updating the
> report, in order to automatically generate the ‘CLOCKSUM’ property. But
> that function doesn't change anything.
> 
> Why wouldn't the ‘org-clock-sum’ function do what its doc string says?
> How should I be updating the ‘CLOCKSUM’ property?
> 
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> Ben Finney
> 
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