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From: Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Recurring tasks and arbitrary properties
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Hello,

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> a task like this behaves like a recurring task, i.e. if I set the task
>> state to DONE it is automatically switched back to TODO. Is that the
>> intended behaviour?
>>
>> * TODO task1
>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>   :FOO: <2017-03-12 Sun ++1w>
>>   :END:
>
> Historically, location of regular (i.e., non scheduled non deadline)
> active time stamps in an entry has always been sloppy. In particular,
> Org Agenda happily processes active time stamps in properties drawers.
>
> IMO, this shouldn't be the case, but I can see a use for it and doing
> otherwise would probably break a lot of documents for little benefit.
>
> So, yes, this is the intended behaviour.
hmm, what's a good way to work around that? Removing, let's say, the
brackets before storing that value? 

Regards
hmw