Re: [O] View inherited DEADLINEs in agenda

[Carsten Dominik]

On 8.11.2011, at 23:35, Brian van den Broek wrote:

> On 7 November 2011 16:29, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:
>> 
>>> Fabrizio Chiarello <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I have many tasks with a DEADLINE, and I wish to have their subtasks to
>>>> inherit such DEADLINE. To this aim, I set:
>>>> 
>>>>  (setq org-use-property-inheritance (quote ("DEADLINE")))
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>> The problem is that the agenda only shows deadlines for the tasks that
>>>> define them
>>> 
>>> is DEADLINE  a property that can be inherited?
>> 
>> Deadlines can currently *not* be inherited.  I would probably advice
>> against implementing this because of performance issues that would
>> result for the construction of the agenda.
>> 
>> - Carsten
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here's a thought: what about a function which scans a subtree of an
> item that has a deadline and adds that same deadline to any
> descendants that lack a deadline? It seems to me that this would, via
> a one time user intervention, meet the OP's need, without the constant
> overhead  about which Carsten is concerned.

This is a good idea and very easy to do.
The only disadvantage is that any new entries you make
would not get the deadline.  Though, I think, one
could put a function into org-insert-heading-hook
to check for a deadline higher up in the tree and copy it.

- Carsten

> 
> It further occurred to me that invoked without arguments, it would
> prompt the user for each item without deadline, with a prefix
> argument, apply all the deadlines automatically, and, with a numeric
> prefix n, automatically apply the alterations n-levels down.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Brian vdB