From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: changing the time of one instance of a recurring appointment
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hqerlml.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B75A8E6.5050106@ccbr.umn.edu> (Erik Iverson's message of "Fri\, 12 Feb 2010 13\:15\:50 -0600")
Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I did not see this addressed in the manual or FAQ.
>
> Say I have a recurring appointment, every third Monday of the month,
> at 11:30 AM, no problem:
>
> ** Monthly meeting with Boss <%%(diary-float t 1 3)>11:30
>
> Now, my boss emails me and says, let's change next week's meeting to
> 10:30. How would you handle that? Just simply change the 11:30 to
> 10:30 and remember to change it back next week? Add a new one-off
> appointment for 10:30 that day and ignore the 11:30 one on your
> agenda? Or is there some way to do this built into org-mode already?
For these types of meetings I use org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift (C-c
C-x c) to copy the entry and shift the date ahead appropriately. This
creates separate tasks for each meeting and I'm free to move individual
tasks around as required.
HTH,
Bernt
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