Emacs org-mode agenda filter by owner

Question

Is it possible to filter agenda in emacs based on Owner property? Currently I use tags to set owner of TODO items. This way I can filter agenda by tags like this: ``` (setq org-agenda-custom-commands `(("o" "tasks for oleg" ((org-agenda-list) (org-agenda-filter-apply ,(list "+oleg"))) ((org-agenda-remove-tags t))) ("k" "tasks for karl" ((org-agenda-list) (org-agenda-filter-apply ,(list "+karl"))) ((org-agenda-remove-tags t))) )) ``` It's not convenient to use tags to mark the owner but I see no other way to filter TODO items by Owner.

Accepted Answer

This worked for me in my .emacs:

```
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
   (quote (("s" "tasks for Seth" tags "+OWNER=\"seth\"" nil))))
```

My properties are upper-case though so you'd need to use `+Owner=` methinks.

You could also invoke your own custom search by doing:

```
C-c a m +Owner="foobar"
```

(assuming you have C-c a bound to `org-agenda.`

I'm running org-mode 6.27a. For what it's worth, I wasn't quite sure how to do this at first but the worg page about custom commands was very helpful.

Emacs org-mode agenda filter by owner

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