Re: [O] (no subject) How to sort agenda by timestamps (scheduled/deadline)?

[Bernt Hansen]

Martin Beck <address@hidden> writes:

> Bernt Hansen <bernt <at> norang.ca> writes:
>
>> 
>> "Martin Beck" <elwood151 <at> web.de> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm trying to create a custom agenda setup for my org-mode and I wonder how
> I can sort the agenda-items by
>> date (Scheduled
>> > or deadline): newest first.
>> >
>> > I only found time-up / time-down in the parameters, but that does not seem
> to do what I need.
>> > ...
>> 
>> Hi Martin,
>> 
>> I sort my daily agenda items specifically using a bunch of complicated
>> sorting functions.  They are all documented here:
>> 
>> http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#AgendaViewTweaks
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Bernt
>> 
>> 
>
> Hi Bernt,
>
> thanks a lot - I'm already working with your setup and currently struggling to
> adapt it to my needs, but my elisp/emacs/org-mode knowledge is still too 
> limited.
>
> Is it true that "time-up" only sorts items which really have a time
> (hours/minutes) defined, so it does not also sort everything with
> date-timestamps by date?

Hi Martin,

>From 

,----[ C-h v org-agenda-sorting-strategy ]
| time-up            Put entries with time-of-day indications first, early first
| time-down          Put entries with time-of-day indications first, late first
`----

time-up should sort items with a date stamp and time with earlier times
first followed by later times.  time-down is the opposite.  I don't
think this has anything to do with durations.  Yes it only seems to
affect entries with a time component.  On today's daily agenda if I set
org-agenda-sorting-strategy to only be time-up then the grid is at the
to of the agenda followed by all of the other entries.  Any entries with
a time are interspersed in the grid.

With time-down the grid is in reverse at the bottom of the agenda.

>
> I tried to modify your Block Agenda by inserting the following block:
>
> (tags-todo "PRIORITY=\"A\"" (
>               (org-agenda-overriding-header "Critical")
>               (org-agenda-entry-types '(:deadline))
>               (org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (time-up category-keep)))
>               (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future)
>               (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'future)
>               ))
>
> But unfortunately, it does only display category, TODO-keyword and subject, 
> but
> NO information about Deadline or Scheduled date.
>
> Ho could I insert this additional "column" in the agenda view?

I can't make it work in the block agenda but as a standalone agenda does
this help?

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
              ("x" "test" tags-todo "PRIORITY=\"A\"" 
               ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Critical")
                (org-agenda-entry-types '(:deadline))
                (org-columns-default-format "%10CATEGORY(Category) 
%60ITEM(Task) %15DEADLINE(Deadline) %15SCHEDULED(Scheduled)")
                (org-agenda-view-columns-initially t)
                (org-agenda-sorting-strategy (quote (time-up category-keep)))
                (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled 'future)
                (org-agenda-todo-ignore-deadlines 'future)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This starts the agenda in column mode and shows category, task,
deadline, scheduled dates.

'q' exits column mode.

In the block agenda if you turn on column mode with C-c C-x C-c you get
the same information for all tasks in the agenda

It's probably not exactly what you were looking for...

Regards,
Bernt