[Orgmode] Re: Repeating tasks with a time period?

[Bernt Hansen]

"Oliver Charles" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm starting to use org-mode more and more at the moment, and want to
> integrate my university schedule into my agenda, instead of
> maintaining 2 separate calendars.
>
> Here's an real-world example of what I'd like to do, I'm not sure it's
> possible with org-mode though...
>
> I have a CSC243 practical every Tuesday, at 1100-1300. It repeats
> weekly, starting on 28/10/2008 and the last one is on 16/12/2008. I
> can get it repeating weekly from this date with just a start time, but
> cannot work out how to repeat the time region.

,----[ university.org ]
| * Classes
| ** TODO CSC243 Practical
|    SCHEDULED: <2008-10-28 Tue 11:00-13:00 +1w> 
| 
`----

>
> Also, is there anyway to stop the repeating event when it gets to that
> date? If that's not possible, I don't mind having to go in and
> manually remove the event - most changes happen at the end of a term
> anyawy.

No, repeating items go on forever (as far as I know)

I normally deal with this with a second deadline item to kill the task.
Something like this:

,----[ university.org ]
| * Classes
| ** TODO CSC243 Practical
|    SCHEDULED: <2008-10-28 Tue 11:00-13:00 +1w> 
| *** TODO Task ends
|     DEADLINE: <2008-12-16 Tue -7d>
| 
`----

and then I just remove the +1w from the CSC243 task and mark it and the
deadline task as done.

I would also recommend putting these tasks in a separate org file and
just adding it to your agenda with C-c [.  Then it's easy to drop it
from the agenda in the future with C-c ].

HTH,
Bernt