[kdepim-users] Understanding recurring ToDo items

[Dotan Cohen]

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?

Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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