Re: [O] [feature request] Org as an Excerpt Database (or Multivalue Properties)
Hi Christian and Herbert Christian Moe m...@christianmoe.com writes: I've successfully used the regular expression searches Herbert Sitz describes to search and query a small (~ 500 kB) Org database of all my source materials (text clippings) for a project, where some of the properties I used had multiple values. You will find Matt Lundin's Advanced searching tutorial invaluable: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html Org has some basic support for multivalue properties, mainly for editing (getting, putting, adding, removing) and also a membership test. See the manual: [[info:org#Using%20the%20property%20API]] Note that unlike your example setup, the values are not comma-separated. The multivalue support does not, as far as I remember, extend to match expressions for searches etc. This would probably be non-trivial to implement. Something could probably be cobbled up with org-entry-member-in-multivalued-property. But regexp searches are fairly simple to use, and work now. This is a fairly good solution. Thanks for hinting me to that solution and the worg-site. After having worked with regexp-searches for a day, I see that I can do what I want. Anyway it's quite an amount of typing. For some reasons I noticed a strange bug (?) connected to regexp-searches. Whenever I do a org-tags-view, some of my org-files get the double asterisk in the status-bar. They haven't changed but Emacs tells me that they had. This always happens to the same three files, other org-files are untouched. Does anybody else have that phenomenon? Greetings, Sven
[O] [feature request] Org as an Excerpt Database (or Multivalue Properties)
Hi all Is it possible to give a property more than one value? I have an org file with a collection of citations and I want to give them a number of keywords. For example: * Ethics of a Hacker's Life :PROPERTIES: :author: Richard Stallmann :source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/richard_stallman.html :keywords: money, code-writing, career, ethics :END: I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. A property search for code-writing should match this citation and all others with this property. An additional search for career should narrow the matches down. But orgmode understands money, ... ethics as ONE value, not FOUR. That's the problem. Of course, this could be done with Tags, but with more than four or five tags the line would become unreadable. It would also be possible to have several properties keyword_1: money, keyword_2: code-writing etc. But then property searches would be useless (because sometimes you have money as keyword_1, sometimes as keyword_2 or keyword_15). *Why I consider this a worthwhile feature request:* It is meant for authors or researchers. When I read something, I use to make and collect excerpts of passages I find useful or interesting. When writing an article or book, this excerpt-collection can be queried like a database for certain keywords in order to find what you have read on the topic. I think that many of us could use such a possibility. This should be a fairly easy thing to do with orgmode. Is there already a module capable of doing what I want? Thanks Sven
Re: [O] [feature request] Org as an Excerpt Database (or Multivalue Properties)
Sven Bretfeld sven.bretfeld at gmx.ch writes:
A property search for code-writing should match this citation and all
others with this property. An additional search for career should
narrow the matches down. But orgmode understands money, ... ethics as
ONE value, not FOUR. That's the problem.
Sven --
I think you should be able to get results you want using regular expression
searches on your 'keyword' field. E.g., the following tags-todo search should
find headings that have both 'career' and 'code-writing' in a 'keyword'
property:
keyword={career}keyword={code-writing}
This search would find headings that had one or the other or both:
keyword={career\|code-writing}
Regular expressions start out simple but can get very complex. I expect there's
a way to get whatever you want out of the multi-value property strings you
want to use.
-- Herb
Re: [O] [feature request] Org as an Excerpt Database (or Multivalue Properties)
Hi,
I've successfully used the regular expression searches Herbert Sitz
describes to search and query a small (~ 500 kB) Org database of all
my source materials (text clippings) for a project, where some of the
properties I used had multiple values.
You will find Matt Lundin's Advanced searching tutorial invaluable:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.html
Org has some basic support for multivalue properties, mainly for
editing (getting, putting, adding, removing) and also a membership
test. See the manual:
[[info:org#Using%20the%20property%20API]]
Note that unlike your example setup, the values are not comma-separated.
The multivalue support does not, as far as I remember, extend to match
expressions for searches etc. This would probably be non-trivial to
implement. Something could probably be cobbled up with
org-entry-member-in-multivalued-property. But regexp searches are
fairly simple to use, and work now.
You'll want to think carefully about what you put in properties, what
you put in tags, and what you put in multi-value properties, with a
view to making this easy to search and change as your file grows.
Yours,
Christian
On 12/11/11 1:09 AM, Herbert Sitz wrote:
Sven Bretfeldsven.bretfeldat gmx.ch writes:
A property search for code-writing should match this citation and all
others with this property. An additional search for career should
narrow the matches down. But orgmode understands money, ... ethics as
ONE value, not FOUR. That's the problem.
Sven --
I think you should be able to get results you want using regular expression
searches on your 'keyword' field. E.g., the following tags-todo search should
find headings that have both 'career' and 'code-writing' in a 'keyword'
property:
keyword={career}keyword={code-writing}
This search would find headings that had one or the other or both:
keyword={career\|code-writing}
Regular expressions start out simple but can get very complex. I expect there's
a way to get whatever you want out of the multi-value property strings you
want to use.
-- Herb
