Orage - how to 'clear' repeated event until the next one?

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:18:32AM +0200, Juha Kautto wrote:
> 29.12.2011 16:14, Chris Green kirjoitti:
> >On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 03:39:38PM +0200, Juha Kautto wrote:
> >>29.12.2011 12:43, Chris Green kirjoitti:
> >
> >A repeating EVENT or TODO is only of any use if you can clear the
> >previous/current ones somehow.  In terms of what happens in the .ics
> >file this means either a custom entry of some sort or you have to delete
> >and replace the VEVENT entry with one that starts at the next repeat.
> >
> It seems to work completely wrong in your system then. This is how
> it works for me and
> how it should work:
> Create for example weekly repeating EVENT: starts on 30 December
> 2011 and lasts 2 days:
> - This is visible in every week and you can not remove it except by
> defining exception days,
>    which is not a good idea.
> 
> Change it to TODO and only the next TODO start date is shown. Set it
> as done and the next
> TODO will be shown and the current one will disappear.  Note, that
> it needs to be "done"
> after the TODO starts. (In the main window the TODO is black if it
> is in the future and blue
> when it is active and finally red when it is late. It can be late
> only when it has Due time
> defined.)
> 
I don't see anything remotely like this, are we running the same
program? :-)  I'm running Orage version 4.8.1.

I have created a TODO with the title "Todo Test", it starts on 4th
January 2012 and is repeated every two weeks.  First (minor) issue is
that when you create a TODO it defaults to 'Completed' which seems a
little odd.  With the Completed box cleared all I see in the main
calendar window showing the month of January 2012 is the 4th in bold
black and, below, in the To do: panel there is "Todo Test", there's
nothing to indicate that ToDo Test occurs on 4th January and nothing in
colour. 

I also tried creating a TODO in December 2011 and completing it on 1st
January, that has sort of done as you outline above but not completely.
I think the problem is that the TODO isn't being marked on the calendar
*at all* if it's complete.  I create the TODO on 28/12/11 and, if I
double click the "ToDo test" entry in the box below the calendar the
details appear but there is no date marked on the calendar, either for
the (completed) one on 28/12/11 nor for the 28/1/12 or any future date.

So, to get what you're describing, what do you have set for the TODO?
I just have a Todo with a Title, a start date of 28/12/11 at 09:00, a
tick in the Completed box and a Done date of 01/01/12 at 12:16. ...and
as I said above this shows nothing on the monthly calendar dates at all
and just "ToDo test" in the box below with no indication of date or
anything. 


> But there is indeed no way to separate repeating events in ics file.
> You can not comment those
> individually and you can not get it deleted and recreated as you
> say. So in that sense you can not
> remove it from the ics file.
> 
> (Orage can however remind you about the next TODO, so extra genmon
> script is not needed.)
> 
Can it remind me by simply putting the TODO title in the xfce4 panel? 
That's what my genmon script does, so the reminder just stays there
until the due date or until I clear the TODO/EVENT.  I don't want
windows popping up or alarms or anything.

-- 
Chris Green