Jim, Thanks for your suggestion. I don't think this will work for me. This is a meeting that occurs probably 3 weeks out of 4. It is canceled for holidays, if multiple participants are traveling, etc. What I'd like---and what I assume would be broadly useful to others as well as me---is an interactive function that says: "this particular cyclic appt will not be happening on this particular day; do not re-insinuate it." Since I may attend this same meeting for several years to come and cancellations are bound to run into the dozens, it would be best if this didn't clog up my .diary.cyclic-tasks file; it probably should "live" in some annotation on the day page.
If all of the above sounds rather demanding, I should not that I am willing to try hacking this up myself. I'm just asking if there's a pre-existing solution to the problem. Regards, Chris On Dec 3, 2007 12:09 PM, Jim Ottaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> Christopher L Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am using cyclic entries with schedule-based appointments with > > (planner-appt-schedule-cyclic-insinuate). I have a meeting that > > happens on *most* Tuesdays, so I've set it up thus: > > > Tue @11:00am | 12:00 | Meeting > > > How do I suppress this appointment on the weeks when it will not > > occur? Going to the specific day page and deleting the appointment > > doesn't work: the appointment gets re-added when I re-visit the day > > page! > > It would depend on how you want to restrict the date. If it's just a few > days, something like this might work [completely untested]: > > > %%(and (not (member date '((12 18 2007) ;; dates you want to exclude here > (1 15 2008)))) ;; these have to be (month day year) > (diary-cyclic 7 4 12 2007))) Tue @11:00am | 12:00 | Meeting > > If it works , it should show an entry for each Tuesday, except for 18 > December 2007 and 15 January 2008. Assumes european-calendar-style is t, > otherwise, reverse days and months [but only in the diary-cyclic part!]. > > Sorry I can't actually test it. > > Regards, > -- > Dr Jim Ottaway > Research Officer: Translating Neurobiological Research > BIOS Centre for Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society > London School of Economics and Political Science > > _______________________________________________ > Planner-el-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Planner-el-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss
