Is it possible to filter on tags when agenda constructs its view? I have tried the following to show only work related appointments:
("j" "Jobb"
((agenda ""
((org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp":jobb:"))))
(tags-todo "jobb"))
((org-agenda-compact-blocks nil)))
This works only if the actual appointment is directly tagged, but not if the appointment inherits its tag from a parent headline like this:
* Tider :jobb:
** Millas arbetstider
<2012-04-11 ons 05:00-09:00>
<2012-04-12 tor 04:15-08:30>
<2012-04-13 fre 14:30-18:30>
Is there another way to do this so that appointments that inherits its tag shows up?
The issue is in how org-agenda-skip-entries-if interacts with 'notregexp. It will skip any entries that do not match :jobb:. Even though the later entries inherit the tag, it is not explicitly listed and so they are skipped. There also does not seem to be any built-in method to match (or not match) on tags using org-agenda-skip-entries-if. If there is such a function it would likely be the more efficient method of looking for the tags, but I'm not aware of such a function.
You instead have to create a custom function that will provide the desired search-format.
If you change your agenda command to:
("j" "Jobb"
((agenda ""
((org-agenda-skip-function '(zin/org-agenda-skip-tag "jobb" 't))))
(tags-todo "jobb"))
((org-agenda-compact-blocks nil)))
and define zin/org-agenda-skip-tag as:
(defun zin/org-agenda-skip-tag (tag &optional others)
"Skip all entries that correspond to TAG.
If OTHERS is true, skip all entries that do not correspond to TAG."
(let ((next-headline (save-excursion (or (outline-next-heading) (point-max))))
(current-headline (or (and (org-at-heading-p)
(point))
(save-excursion (org-back-to-heading)))))
(if others
(if (not (member tag (org-get-tags-at current-headline)))
next-headline
nil)
(if (member tag (org-get-tags-at current-headline))
next-headline
nil))))
You will get what I understand to be your desired agenda view. If I have it backwards and the entries on the next 3 days should not be present, you simply have to change the function to (zin/org-agenda-skip-tag "jobb") or (zin/org-agenda-skip-tag "jobb" 'nil), they are equivalent in this case.
In this case test-new is the name of the org-file I was using, it can be ignored. I also set both headlines to TODO to have them visible when testing the function, since I was restricting the agenda to only the one file.
Week-agenda (W15):
Monday 9 April 2012 W15
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Wednesday 11 April 2012
test-new: 5:00- 9:00 TODO Millas arbetstider :jobb::
Thursday 12 April 2012
test-new: 4:15- 8:30 TODO Millas arbetstider :jobb::
Friday 13 April 2012
test-new: 14:30-18:30 TODO Millas arbetstider :jobb::
Saturday 14 April 2012
Sunday 15 April 2012
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Headlines with TAGS match: jobb
test-new: TODO Tider :jobb:
test-new: TODO Millas arbetstider :jobb::