Re: Repeat only a certain number of times

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 at 12:01, Samuel W. Flint wrote:
> I was wondering, is there a way to set a date-stamp so that it only
> repeats a certain number of times?  If not, what would it take to add
> it?

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#org-class

However, my usual approach (for timetabling lectures, say) is to use:

,----[ C-h f org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift RET ]
| org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift is an interactive compiled Lisp
| function in ‘org.el’.
| 
| (org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift N &optional SHIFT)
| 
| Clone the task (subtree) at point N times.
| The clones will be inserted as siblings.
| 
| In interactive use, the user will be prompted for the number of
| clones to be produced.  If the entry has a timestamp, the user
| will also be prompted for a time shift, which may be a repeater
| as used in time stamps, for example ‘+3d’.  To disable this,
| you can call the function with a universal prefix argument.
| 
| When a valid repeater is given and the entry contains any time
| stamps, the clones will become a sequence in time, with time
| stamps in the subtree shifted for each clone produced.  If SHIFT
| is nil or the empty string, time stamps will be left alone.  The
| ID property of the original subtree is removed.
| 
| If the original subtree did contain time stamps with a repeater,
| the following will happen:
| - the repeater will be removed in each clone
| - an additional clone will be produced, with the current, unshifted
|   date(s) in the entry.
| - the original entry will be placed *after* all the clones, with
|   repeater intact.
| - the start days in the repeater in the original entry will be shifted
|   to past the last clone.
| In this way you can spell out a number of instances of a repeating task,
| and still retain the repeater to cover future instances of the task.
| 
| As described above, N+1 clones are produced when the original
| subtree has a repeater.  Setting N to 0, then, can be used to
| remove the repeater from a subtree and create a shifted clone
| with the original repeater.
| 
| [back]
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