Hi, I'm a new org-mode user and I'm just starting to use it in a real way. One feature that seems to be missing is the ability to specify properties on a parent-node that are inherited by the children, but is not applied to the parent itself. An example of where you might need this is:
* Servers :PROPERTIES: :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %ip :END ** foo.example.com :PROPERTIES: :ip:x.x.x.x :END ** bar.example.com :PROPERTIES: :ip:x.x.x.x :END If there was a way to apply the root properties to the children but not the parent itself, then column mode would work as expected but would not apply the columns specification to the "Servers" node where it is not relevant. As it is now, each child-entry needs it's own column specification.