Feature request: create kanban in empty org-mode file, point to another org-mode file

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Feature request: create kanban in empty org-mode file, point to another org-mode file

Trevoke opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

For instance:

#+BEGIN: kanban :file ~/org/chores.org
#+END:

Would create a kanban table based on what's in chores.org.

Christian Köstlin · Answer 1 · Sun Apr 08 2018 16:36:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Another great feature request. Will have to look into the org api to see, if i can easily implement this!

Christian Köstlin · Answer 2 · Sun Apr 08 2018 17:43:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

to get the parameter use (plist-get params :file)

Christian Köstlin · Answer 3 · Mon Apr 09 2018 03:17:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

ok .. last one ...
i am not sure, if this is soo simple ... i think we want something like org-agenda, but as a kanban board.
another question is, what happens, if you store the kanban board, should hte other file/files also be saved?

Trevoke · Answer 4 · Mon Apr 09 2018 20:23:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I wasn't thinking of something too much like the agenda, because the agenda is immutable. I was thinking of something much simpler: 1. org file in todo.org 2. kanban in kanban.org 3. when you move something in the kanban, it makes an edit to the todo.org (and saves it) 4. if todo.org changes externally, you can just refresh the kanban / regenerate it Mostly I was considering things like "a trello board is saved in todo.org". I did not consider how pushing the changes back to the external system would work. Maybe you're right and it requires a little more thought - maybe there's room for some plugins here :)

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Christian Köstlin · Answer 5 · Tue Apr 10 2018 02:11:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ok ... i understand ... i meant just like agenda-files in which you say from where you want to collect your todos ...

so you would edit the other file and safe it automatically, if interacting with the kanban board?

i asked around in the org-mode irc, because i dont know the api that well (and it seems, there is no api to get the todos of a file) .. i will try quickly to open the file in another buffer and use my current method, perhaps this works ...
also the links to the todos would get a little bit more complicated :/ .. lets see ...

btw. ... how are you using this plugin? with the melpa package or from source?

Christian Köstlin · Answer 6 · Tue Apr 10 2018 04:22:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Stupid me ... I already used the proper api:
org-map-entries takes an optional scope, that can be .... a file-list :)
e.g.

  (org-map-entries (lambda() (org-heading-components)) t (list "test.org"))

Christian Köstlin · Answer 7 · Tue Apr 10 2018 07:45:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@Trevoke please have a look ... test1.org shows how to use it.
at the moment the "other" file is not automatically stored, and i guess the table is not right, if different todo-keywords are used in the files.

Christian Köstlin · Answer 8 · Wed Apr 11 2018 04:13:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I pushed a new version to master ... with this I am quite happy ...
it collects all different org keywords from all files and puts those to the table.
the org-items can still be shifted in the kanban board (but only to the keywords, that are defined for them). if you have everywhere the samekeywords or use the default ones, this should not matter, but i wanted to have a generic solution...