Re: "DONE" all subtasks recursively

[Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com>]

Hello Marcelo,

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 21:11, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
<celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
> *bump*
> Hey guys, if someone could guide me a hint on where I should look to hack
> some elisp code in order to do that, I'd be grateful ;)
> Cheers,
> Marcelo.
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
> <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys
>> If I have a headline with children, like this:
>> * Project
>> ** TODO Task
>> ** TODO Task
>> ** SubProject
>> *** TODO Task
>> *** TODO Task
>> Does org have any functionality that allows me to automatically close
>> (Change TODO->DONE, put DONE when TODO is not available (in the case of
>> Projects)) automatically and recursively for each child if I close the main
>> parent headline?

You can use ‘org-map-region’ to call a function on every headline in a
region. ‘org-end-of-subtree’ will move point to… well, the end of the
current subtree.  Finally, ‘org-todo’ is what changes the todo state
of the headline containing point.

Add your custom function to either
‘org-after-todo-state-change-hook’[1] or ‘org-trigger-hook’.[2] (I’m
not sure what the difference is.)

Happy hacking!
Aankhen

[1]: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-configs/org-hooks.html#sec-1_13
[2]: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-configs/org-hooks.html#sec-1_15