Re: [O] Mixing org-mode tables with outlining?

[Michael Brand]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 13:24, Chris Barber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Would it still be possible to do calculations within the heading?
> Eg once I have filled in all my headings and properties, how could I make
> the value of the last property for each heading equal to the average of the
> previous 3 columns?

Yes, Org column view is equipped to do all kinds of aggregations like
to calculate the average/sum/min/max/... of the _lower_ level columns,
see "{summary-type}" in:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-attributes.html#Column-attributes

To get an idea of the power of column view I would also recommend
Carsten's talk at 00:18:23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM#t=18m23s
and Russell's talk at about 00:54:00
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2572085463585491742

Michael