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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?

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    I can reproduce the problem but I have no idea how to fix it. I would suggest posting it to the org-mode ML. Commented Jun 13, 2018 at 17:12
  • Good idea. I'll do that after it falls off the front page on emacs.stackexchange Commented Jun 13, 2018 at 18:08

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This should do it:

(defun my-column-display-value-transformer (column-title value) "Modifies the value to display in column view." (when (equal column-title "FILE") (file-name-base value))) (setq org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function #'my-column-display-value-transformer) 

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