How to customize org-super-agenda-groups and faces inside org-ql-block

[ieremies]

First, thanks for the package! It is no fricking useful!!!

I'm trying to set some blocks in my agenda, and I'm running into some problems:

First, as we can in the above image, on the block "Open" there is also the org-super-agenda grouping. I know with normal org-agenda blocks, we can set org-super-agenda-groups to nil in order to disable in a block. How can I do this with org-ql-block?

Second, also exemplified in the image, the results in the block have different color than the ones in the agenda. Those in the agenda have the org-agenda-face applied to then, but I can find a face to customize those in the block. How could I change their color?

Last, but no least, I really want some way to show the category of a task in that new block. Preferably, in the same way org-agenda does. Is there a way?

[alphapapa]

Hi,

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad it's useful to you.

First, as we can in the above image, on the block "Open" there is also the org-super-agenda grouping. I know with normal org-agenda blocks, we can set org-super-agenda-groups to nil in order to disable in a block. How can I do this with org-ql-block?

Please see the documentation for the variable org-agenda-custom-commands. It's a little complicated, but it describes how to bind variables around each block, which you can use to do that. (Well, I see that you're already binding org-ql-block-header, so you just need to bind the other variable in that binding list.)

Second, also exemplified in the image, the results in the block have different color than the ones in the agenda. Those in the agenda have the org-agenda-face applied to then, but I can find a face to customize those in the block. How could I change their color?

I guess you'd need to write a little code to do that. I'm not sure if that face's not being set is an oversight or if something changed in Org that org-ql needs to be updated for. (You might also sometimes use an org-ql-search view instead of an org-agenda view, which would not add that face, but would display more uniformly. But that doesn't yet support the same kind of multiple-blocks features that org-agenda does.)

Last, but no least, I really want some way to show the category of a task in that new block. Preferably, in the same way org-agenda does. Is there a way?

For now, you'd have to customize the formatting function. Please see the relevant issue in this tracker about custom formatting.

Obrigado. :)

[ieremies]

Sorry for the late reply.

Please see the documentation for the variable org-agenda-custom-commands

I got it working! I think I messed up the parenthesis the first time and thought it wouldn't work with org-ql-block.

I guess you'd need to write a little code to do that. I'm not sure if that face's not being set is an oversight or if something changed in Org that org-ql needs to be updated for.

I will look into that, but I'm not yet so well versed in the almighty Elisp to adventure myself on the word of faces. What I think is happening is org-agenda does not apply any face to entries by default. Since my agenda only show items with deadlines, schedules, clocked and so, and those have special faces, when org-ql-block shows items without any of those, it defaults to no-face.

(First is clocking, second has a deadline but third has none, so no face is aplied.)

For now, you'd have to customize the formatting function. Please see the relevant issue in this tracker about custom formatting.

Yep, found it #44 .

Obrigado. :)

Eu que agradeço!!

[alphapapa]

I will look into that, but I'm not yet so well versed in the almighty Elisp to adventure myself on the word of faces. What I think is happening is org-agenda does not apply any face to entries by default. Since my agenda only show items with deadlines, schedules, clocked and so, and those have special faces, when org-ql-block shows items without any of those, it defaults to no-face.

Ah, that makes sense. I think you figured it out. :) Thanks.