On 7.4.2011, at 23:51, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy all, > > When I use ‘org-clock-sum’ in Org-mode version 7.4, nothing appears to > happen: the items in the subtree are not updated and no ‘CLOCKSUM’ > property appears.
CLOCKSUM is a special property which is only a way to access clocking information, but the property is never set literally. org-invoice was broken due to changes in the property code in org.el, fixed now. HTH - Carsten > > Org-mode version 7.4 > GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of > 2010-12-12 on porpora, modified by Debian > > > I'm trying to generate an invoice report using ‘org-invoice.el’. > > The items on which I want to report have clock entries, generated > correctly with ‘org-clock-in’ and ‘org-clock-out’. An example: > > ===== > * foo > ** bar > *** [2011-03-24 Thu] > CLOCK: [2011-03-24 Thu 14:15]--[2011-03-24 Thu 18:03] => 3:48 > CLOCK: [2011-03-24 Thu 09:10]--[2011-03-24 Thu 12:27] => 3:17 > *** [2011-03-23 Wed] > CLOCK: [2011-03-23 Wed 14:10]--[2011-03-23 Wed 18:16] => 4:06 > CLOCK: [2011-03-23 Wed 09:30]--[2011-03-23 Wed 13:10] => 3:40 > *** [2011-03-22 Tue] > CLOCK: [2011-03-22 Tue 14:00]--[2011-03-22 Tue 17:30] => 3:30 > CLOCK: [2011-03-22 Tue 08:58]--[2011-03-22 Tue 13:31] => 4:33 > ===== > > According to the doc string for ‘org-invoice-report’, the ‘CLOCKSUM’ > property on each item in the subtree will be used for the report. > > So apparently I need to ‘org-clock-sum’ on the tree before updating the > report, in order to automatically generate the ‘CLOCKSUM’ property. But > that function doesn't change anything. > > Why wouldn't the ‘org-clock-sum’ function do what its doc string says? > How should I be updating the ‘CLOCKSUM’ property? > > -- > \ “The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial | > `\ television and could not exist in its present form without it.” | > _o__) —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The New Industrial State_, 1967 | > Ben Finney > >