Richard Lawrence <richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> About a year ago, I wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a simple way for me to say to the agenda, "Show me all (and only)
>>> the NEXT tasks that are part of a project whose deadline is before (say)
>>> 2016-11-01"? It seems like this should be possible with the built-in agenda
>>> but I can't quite figure it out. The tricky thing is filtering by the
>>> deadline of the parent project, which might be several levels up.
>
> I'm still stuck on this, so I'd like to ask this question again. Bastien
> responded:
>
>> I would add a category to each project, then use something along this:
>>
>> ("N" "My important tasks" tags-todo
>> "CATEGORY={cat1\\|cat2}+TODO={NEXT}+DEADLINE<=\"<+3d>\"")
>
> But that doesn't seem to work for me. The problem is that the tasks I want to
> list in the tags-todo search don't themselves have deadlines; only their
> parent
> projects do.
>
> I have a file with projects that look like this:
>
> ** TODO Foo University DEADLINE: <2017-11-01>
> *** NEXT Determine application requirements for Foo U.
> *** TODO Submit application
>
> I'd like to see a list of just NEXT tasks in this file, sorted by the deadline
> of their parent projects.
>
> I thought that property inheritance would be the way to do this. So I tried:
>
> ("jn" "Job application NEXT tasks" tags-todo
> "+jobmarket+application+TODO={NEXT}" ((org-use-property-inheritance t))
> (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(deadline-up))))
>
> as well as
>
> ("jn" "Job application NEXT tasks" tags-todo
> "+jobmarket+application+TODO={NEXT}" ((org-use-property-inheritance
> '("DEADLINE")) (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(deadline-up))))
>
> in org-agenda-custom-commands. But neither seems to work. Can anyone provide
> any insights here? Is it possible for sub-tasks within a project to inherit
> their deadline?
Found an already asked question that might help:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-04/msg00373.html
You can set org-agenda-sorting-strategy to `user-defined-up' and use the
function used in the thread I have posted above to compare two NEXT entries.
> Many thanks as always!
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
--
Narendra Joshi
