[O] ical export: Still trying to clarify strange results

[G. Martin Butz]

Hi,

I am turning again to the list, because after some extensive testing, 
reading the manual and googeling I am still not able to configurate the 
ical export the way I expect it to be. Sorry for the long post and sorry 
for bothering the list again, but I am hoping that someone might be able 
to help.

What I want is:

+ Export all TODO items with the beginning date set to the scheduled
  date in org mode.
+ Export also the deadlines in case of TODO items
+ If possible: Do not export DONE items at all

The resulting ical file I get displays:

+ For TODO entries DTSTART set to the timestamp an hour later (not to
  /scheduled/ date)
+ Deadlined items are included; the deadline is corre, the TODO date
  also set to the timestamp an hour later
+ state changes of entries (set to DONE) as DTSTART entry; as these are
  DONE I expected they would be skiped because of org-icalendar-
  include-todo set to /t/.

Obviously the date in SCHEDULED is not recognized. Did I miss the 
relevant variable to set (see my configuration below)?

I also tried to supress any logging of the change of TODO entries (which 
would not really solve my problem but seemed to me a way to clear the 
export from the state changes); in the emacs customization group 
/org-todo/ it is being said that /org-log-done/ set to /nil/ means 
"Don't add anything, just change the keyword", which does not work for 
me. Also the inbuffer setting /#+STARTUP: nologdone/ does not have any 
effect.

This is my testfile to export to ical:

--------------------------8<------------------------------------------
#+STARTUP:nologdone

* TODO A Scheduled Event
SCHEDULED: <2014-03-03 Mo 16:00>
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       d092bad5-6559-405f-8afd-a9515b372323
:END:
* TODO A Scheduled Event with Deadline
DEADLINE: <2014-03-13 Do 10:00> SCHEDULED: <2014-03-16 So 15:00>
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       53958c17-4a83-4150-8213-895a76bf4db1
:END:
* DONE A Scheduled Event Already Done
SCHEDULED: <2014-02-24 Mo>
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2014-02-27 Do 09:14]
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       745d0dc5-0ebd-40cc-80fd-e06d1170fa44
:END:
* DONE Another Scheduled Event Already Done
SCHEDULED: <2014-02-07 Fr 15:00>
- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2014-02-27 Do 09:21]
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       45b90294-7807-4aa0-a5a4-93a285be8624
:END:
--------------------------8<------------------------------------------

This is the ical export:

--------------------------8<------------------------------------------
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:test
PRODID:-//G. Martin Butz//Emacs with Org mode//EN
X-WR-TIMEZONE:CET
X-WR-CALDESC:test
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VTODO
UID:TODO-d092bad5-6559-405f-8afd-a9515b372323
DTSTAMP:20140227T082604Z
DTSTART:20140227T092600
SUMMARY:A Scheduled Event
CATEGORIES:TODO
SEQUENCE:1
PRIORITY:5
STATUS:NEEDS-ACTION
END:VTODO
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140227T082604Z
UID:DL-53958c17-4a83-4150-8213-895a76bf4db1
DTSTART:20140313T100000
DTEND:20140313T120000
SUMMARY:DL: A Scheduled Event with Deadline
CATEGORIES:TODO
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VTODO
UID:TODO-53958c17-4a83-4150-8213-895a76bf4db1
DTSTAMP:20140227T082604Z
DTSTART:20140227T092600
SUMMARY:A Scheduled Event with Deadline
CATEGORIES:TODO
SEQUENCE:1
PRIORITY:5
STATUS:NEEDS-ACTION
END:VTODO
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140227T082604Z
UID:TS1-745d0dc5-0ebd-40cc-80fd-e06d1170fa44
DTSTART:20140227T091400
DTEND:20140227T111400
SUMMARY:A Scheduled Event Already Done
CATEGORIES:DONE
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140227T082604Z
UID:TS1-45b90294-7807-4aa0-a5a4-93a285be8624
DTSTART:20140227T092100
DTEND:20140227T112100
SUMMARY:Another Scheduled Event Already Done
CATEGORIES:DONE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
--------------------------8<------------------------------------------

And this is my config via /.custom/ as far as org-mode and ical-export 
are concerned (I tripple checked: no other customizations concerning the 
issue is involved):

--------------------------8<------------------------------------------
(custom-set-variables
 '(org-combined-agenda-icalendar-file "~/org/ical/org.ics")
 '(org-icalendar-categories (quote (todo-state)))
 '(org-icalendar-combined-name "OrgIcal")
 '(org-icalendar-include-body nil)
 '(org-icalendar-include-todo t)
 '(org-icalendar-use-deadline (quote (event-if-todo)))
 '(org-icalendar-store-UID t)
 '(org-icalendar-use-plain-timestamp nil)
 '(org-icalendar-use-scheduled nil)
 '(org-icalendar-with-timestamps nil)
 '(org-log-done nil))
--------------------------8<------------------------------------------

Maybe I am doing something terribly wrong. I would appreciate any hint 
to solve the problem or to do some more investigation.

Thanks
Martin

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