Re: iCal export of repeated tasks

From: Carsten Dominik <C.Dominik@uva.nl>
To: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: iCal export of repeated tasks
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:02:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1041FFA-7B5E-46C3-BD5D-B0F5A2C499D5@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080610101715.GF5498@atlantic.linksys.moosehall>

I don't think the icalendar format does support repeated entries for a  
limited time interval, does it?

- Carsten

On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Currently, if I have a repeated task such as
>
> * NEXT [#B] water plants
>  SCHEDULED: <2008-06-16 Mon 10:30-10:45 .+1w>
>
> then iCal export includes something like this in the VEVENT:
>
> RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1
>
> For most repeated tasks, this is a perfectly sensible default.
> However, for a task of this nature, I only want to see the next
> occurrence show up in my calendar client - any more just clutters up
> the monthly view.  So I would suggest that there should be an option
> to control whether the repeated occurrences get exported.  Even better
> if you could limit this to only apply to certain types of repeat;
> maybe having it only apply to the 'battery charging' type of renewable
> events denoted by '.+' would make a sensible default?
>
>
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