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From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Subject: Re: iCal export of repeated tasks
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:05:59 +0100
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:02:48AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 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?
>
> I don't think the icalendar format does support repeated entries for a  
> limited time interval, does it?

Quite possibly not - however this need not get in the way of my
suggestion, which was simply to export the repeated event as a one-off
where appropriate.  Does that make sense?