[kdepim-users] Understanding recurring ToDo items

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 19/03/2008, phep <phep-lists at teletopie.net> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > I see that if I create a recurring ToDo with a begin date less
> > > than today, but a due date greater than today, then marking it as
> > > Done does not move the percentage to 100%, rather the due date is
> > > simply pushed back one recur period. Note what I expected, and I
> > > have to look for it to understand what was happening.
> >
> > Did you expect
> > 1) to see the finished task extracted from the recurence, and
> > marked as done, down the list
> > 2) the "still-to-recur" task, having its start date updated to the
> > date the current item was marked as done, moved down the list up to
> > the next recurrence deadline
> >
> > Is that it ? In order to keep track of things done, right ?
> >
> > (this is just curiosity, as I did think once to this sort of
> > mechanism)
>
> I thought that the item would remain checked until the beginning of
> the next cycle, and then would uncheck itself. I'll explain:
>
> There are some tasks that for sake of argument I must do every week.
> I set the first creation date (or due date, whatever) as Sunday. At
> this point, I expect the item to be unchecked. Now, lets say that on
> Wednesday I check off the item. I expect it to stay checked until
> Next sunday, when it will automatically become unchecked. In other
> words, the item would 'renew' itself every Sunday.
>
> In fact, merely pushing the Due Date back 7 days when I check the
> item does me absolutely no good. I cannot at a glance see which items
> I have finished and which I have not yet finished this week. I will
> file a RFE to have this rectified. Are there any use cases where the
> current behaviour is preferable?

This sounds as if you want filtering as in "Show me all ToDo items that 
are due this week."

KOrganizer does support filters and it is even possible to hide inactive 
ToDo items where "inactive" means the start date of the ToDo is in the 
future. Unfortunately, only the due date of a recurring ToDo is changed 
if one checks the item. The start date remains fixed and therefore 
filtering out inactive ToDo items doesn't help.

Anyway, to me filtering seems to be the right solution for your problem. 
Only the criterion appropriate for your use case does not yet exist.


Regards,
Ingo
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