On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Noorul Islam K M <noo...@noorul.com> wrote: > Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > >> Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote: >> >>> Noorul Islam K M <noo...@noorul.com> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > In the below example >>> > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > #+PROPERTY: Age 25 >>> > #+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Age >>> > >>> > * Heading 1 >>> > * Heading 2 >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > >>> > When I try to use column view to edit the property it is not using the >>> > format that I mentioned at the file level. >>> > >>> > But the following one works >>> > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > * Heading 1 >>> > :PROPERTIES: >>> > :Age: 25 >>> > :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Age >>> > :END: >>> > * Heading 2 >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > >>> > Looks like the file level settings are not working. >>> > >>> >>> If I evaluate the form >>> >>> (org-entry-get (point) "Age" t) >>> >>> with the point at any heading, I get "25". OTOH, even with >>> org-use-property-inheritance set to t, column view does not >>> show it. Ergo, it's a column view bug. >>> >>> In org-columns-compute, I see >>> >>> ... >>> (while (re-search-backward re beg t) >>> (setq sumpos (match-beginning 0) >>> last-level level >>> level (org-outline-level) >>> val (org-entry-get nil property) >>> ... >>> >>> I suspect the val line needs to be >>> >>> val (org-entry-get nil property org-use-property-inheritance) >>> >>> instead. >>> >> >> No, that's not it. I think the basic problem is that >> org-entry-properties ignores inheritance altogether (in particular, >> it parses property names explicitly instead of using org-entry-get)[1]. >> >> Nick >> >> [1] ... but it's late, I'm tired and I may very well be wrong - again. > > Well, following one works. It looks like we need _ALL suffix for > inherited properties. > > ---------------------------------------------- > #+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %10Age > #+PROPERTY: Age_ALL 25 > > * Heading 1 > * Heading 2 > ---------------------------------------------- >
To summarize: Whatever Vincent said not working is working for me. Org-mode version 7.01trans (release_7.01h.555.g90cc) GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12) of 2010-01-30 on noorul Thanks and Regards Noorul _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode