Re: Showing scheduled blocked tasks [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Matthew Phillips <Matthew.Phillips@dsto.defence.gov.au>]

On 18/03/2010, at 4:29 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:
> 
>> On 16/03/2010, at 6:21 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 16/03/2010, at 12:24 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:23 AM, Matthew Phillips wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> <snip>
>>>> 
>>>>>> So, is there any way I can use a custom skip function in the TODO block to remove blocked tasks? Is there a way of getting the blocked status of a task from such a function?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, BLOCKED is a virtual property which does this.  I think you can just do a tags/property/todo search like this
>>>>> 
>>>>> "-BLOCKED/+TODO”
>>>> 
>>>> That query still shows the blocked tasks, unfortunately.
>>> 
>>> My mistake:
>>> 
>>> +BLOCKED<>"t"/+TODO
>>> 
>>> This means that the BLOCKED property should not be equal to “t”.
>> 
>> Hmm, the following query still does not work (still shows greyed blocked tasks)
>> 
>> (tags "+BLOCKED<>\"t\"/+TODO")
>> 
>> And using "+BLOCKED=\"t\"/TODO" selects nothing.
> 
> I just tested it, and this is working properly for me.  Are you
> running a recent version of Org-mode?  The BLOCKED property was
> only added in 6.34.

Ah, I was running “6.33x” that came bundled with Emacs 23.1.94.1. Upgrading to a local install of 6.34c fixed it — sorry not to have tried that earlier.

Thanks again for your assistance, much appreciated.

Matthew.


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