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

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 06:28:59PM +0200, Juha Kautto wrote:
> 2.1.2012 17:46, Chris Green kirjoitti:
> >On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:40:05PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> >>I suppose I could set it up so that the Start date is several days
> >>before the 19th and set the Due date to the 19th, then I can complete it
> >>between the start date and the due date.  But it could get a bit
> >>confusing if one set the Start date a *long* time before because then
> >>the real requirement of the job being completed by 19th might get lost.
> >>
> >... and thinking further this doesn't work correctly in some cases, for
> >example my VAT payments are due on 31st March, 30th June, 30th September
> >and 31st December.   If I set up a TODO with a start date of, say, 21st
> >of the month with a due date of 31st to give me 10 days where I can set
> >'completed' then for some months the due date, being after the end of
> >the month, will be wrong.  This is an actual scenario that I need now,
> >I'm sure there are other cases where the confusion could be even worse.
> >
> There is no perfect way of doing this with Orage as it starts
> counting on Start date
> and you are actually interested about due date.
> I would do it like you said and create TODO starting on 20th and
> giving 10 days time
> (duration 10 days). On March and December it would then look like
> delayed even though
> there is still 1 day time (as due day is 30th).
> 
> Other way would be to create 4 separate TODOs, but that is hardly
> any better.
> 
> Another ugly way would be to (mis)use EVENT and set each done date
> as an Exception, which
> removes that EVENT from the calendar and can be used as "Completed" mark.
> 
> No perfect solutions, sorry.
> 
Thanks again Juha for being so helpful and patient.  At least now I'm
pretty sure I'm not missing anything obvious that I could be doing.

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Chris Green