I would like to display file names in my global TODO list in column view without directories and extensions.
(setq org-columns-default-format "%TODO %FILE %ITEM") followed by C-catC-cC-xC-c leads to something like
Global list of TODO items of type: ALL Available with ‘N r’: (0)[ALL] (1)TODO (2)QUICK (3)WAITING (4)NEXT (5)STALL (6)DONE (7)CANCELLED TODO | c:/Users/micha/Dropbox/org/175-stuff.org | * Todo 1 TODO | c:/Users/micha/Dropbox/org/175-stuff.org | * Todo 2 TODO | c:/Users/micha/Dropbox/org/175-stuff.org | * Todo 3 TODO | c:/Users/micha/Dropbox/org/250-petcare.org | * Clean dog I tried setting up a summarizer with
(setq org-columns-default-format "%TODO %FILE{filenamebase} %ITEM") (defun summarize-file-name-base (values printf) (format (or printf "%s") (file-name-base (car values)))) (add-to-list 'org-columns-summary-types '("filenamebase" . summarize-file-name-base)) If I go back to the agenda list and refresh with g then go back to column mode with C-cC-xC-c I get org-entry-put: The FILE property cannot be set with ‘org-entry-put’. If I remove the file-name-base call from the summarizer so that it just returns its input in the case of a list of a single string I don't get an error but I also get no change in formatting.
(defun summarize-file-name-base (values printf) (format (or printf "%s") (car values))) Is there another way to do this?