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jmbarbier
jmbarbier

Reputation: 904

How to remove tags in org-mode ical export?

Exporting an org-mode file to ical format, it seems that tags stay in events and todo titles. In agenda mode, i can remove them using org-agenda-remove-tags but i cannot find such an option for ical export. Is this feature implemented ?

Thank you for your advice...

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1243

Answers (2)

bladem
bladem

Reputation: 1

globally: (setq org-icalendar-categories nil)

only for a particular execution: (let ((org-icalendar-categories nil)) (org-icalendar-export-to-ics nil t))

How I found it?

I arrived to the sourcecode through org-icalendar-export-to-ics function, from there, I found this variable (that, as you see, defaults to '(local-tags category) value):

(defcustom org-icalendar-categories '(local-tags category)
  "Items that should be entered into the \"categories\" field.

This is a list of symbols, the following are valid:
`category'    The Org mode category of the current file or tree
`todo-state'  The todo state, if any
`local-tags'  The tags, defined in the current line
`all-tags'    All tags, including inherited ones."
  :group 'org-export-icalendar
  :type '(repeat
      (choice
       (const :tag "The file or tree category" category)
       (const :tag "The TODO state" todo-state)
       (const :tag "Tags defined in current line" local-tags)
       (const :tag "All tags, including inherited ones" all-tags))))

Extra ball

How (org-icalendar-export-to-ics nil t) works? Read the properties from the declared subtree (in that sense, works very similar to exporting a subtree with the org-export stuff), hence, in the parent you can also set property :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: and that way you can point to another file path such as /tmp/invite.ics :)

Upvotes: 0

Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Jonathan Leech-Pepin

Reputation: 7884

You can use

#+OPTIONS: tags:nil

to suppress the tags in exported files.

However, are you using the most up-to-date version fo Org-Mode?

I just tried doing what I understand your question to be and the tags don't seem to be included.

If I export the following headlines without the default settings:

* TODO Movie                                                :Movie:blah:
  Go see a movie
  <2011-09-17 Sat 13:00-14:00>

My .ics file has the following:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:test
PRODID:-////Emacs with Org-mode//EN
X-WR-TIMEZONE:-0400
X-WR-CALDESC:nil
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID: TS-61193c39-f2e6-444c-9105-9499a2552bf5
DTSTART:20110917T130000
DTEND:20110917T140000
SUMMARY:TODO Movie
DESCRIPTION: Go see a movie\n<2011-09-17 Sat 13:00-14:00>
CATEGORIES:Movie,blah,test
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

I can see the tags listed as CATEGORIES, but not anywhere else.

The export only changes the UID if I add

#+OPTIONS: tags:nil

to the file. Although an ASCII or HTML export will both suppress the tags when the option is added.

Upvotes: 4

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