Re: Recurring scheduled items appearing in schedule

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Dustin Hoffman <dustinhhoffman@gmail.com> writes:

> I have scheduled reminders for things that occur weekly over a period
> of months.  The problem is, that each of these scheduled items appears
> under the current day in the agenda view and the multiplier (eg 6x,
> 5x) keeps going up.
>
> What I want is each of these scheduled items to appear only on the
> days that they occur in the agenda view.
>
> Here is an example of an org file with a schedule in it.
>
>  * Class Times
> ** Class
>    SCHEDULED: <2010-09-28 Tue 12:30-13:48 +1w>
> ** Class
>    SCHEDULED: <2010-09-23 Thu 12:30-13:48 +1w>
>
>
> Her is an example of the agenda view for today that shows all of the tasks.
>
>   647:        Sched. 6x:  Class
>   760:        Sched. 6x:  Class
>   755:        Sched. 6x:  Class
>   788.12:     Sched. 5x:  Class
>   886:        Sched. 5x:  Class
>   647:        Sched. 4x:  Class
>   760:        Sched. 4x:  Class
>   755:        Sched. 4x:  Class
>   788.12:     Sched. 3x:  Class
>   888.12:     Sched. 3x:  Class
>   647:        Sched. 2x:  Class
>   760:        Sched. 2x:  Class
>   755:        Sched. 2x:  Class
>
> I have tried setting (org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t) in my
> .emacs file with no luck.  Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dustin
>
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Hi Dustin,

Just remove the SCHEDULED: from the task and it should do what you want.

SCHEDULED: tends to be more for TODO action items.

-Bernt