On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:33:36PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:02:19 -0500 "Ian! D. Allen" wrote: > > What's the best way to handle a reminder that occurs on a list of a > > dozen or more dates that don't have a regular pattern? > > # Note: Strings! > set d1 "2015-01-05" > set d2 "2015-01-19" > set d3 "2015-01-29" > # ... etc > > SET d iif(evaltrig(d1) != -1, d1, \ > evaltrig(d2) != -1, d2, \ > evaltrig(d3) != -1, d3, \ > -1) > # ... Add more cases to the iif as necessary > > if typeof(d) == "STRING" > REM [d] ++99 MSG Event > endif
The above appears to create one remind event, not an event on each of the separate dates. Using ++99 works to give me advance warning of only one of the multiple events (the next one), not all the events. Can that be fixed? I'm looking for a way to shorten this so that I only code the MSG and SPECIAL lines once, not a dozen times each: REM 2015-01-05 ++99 MSG Event REM 2015-01-05 SPECIAL HTML <a href="http://example.com/event";>Event</a> REM 2015-01-19 ++99 MSG Event REM 2015-01-19 SPECIAL HTML <a href="http://example.com/event";>Event</a> REM 2015-01-29 ++99 MSG Event REM 2015-01-29 SPECIAL HTML <a href="http://example.com/event";>Event</a> # ... etc The idea is like this loop below, though of course Remind doesn't work this way: SET text "This is some event" SET list ("2015-01-05","2015-01-19","2015-01-29") # ... many more dates FOR d IN list ; DO REM [d] ++99 MSG [text] REM [d] SPECIAL HTML <a href="http://example.com/event";>[text]</a> DONE I really do want to see advance notice of multiple upcoming events, not just the next one. (Of course I will write a shell script to produce the dozen lines if I have to, but I'm wondering if Remind has some hidden way of doing this.) -- | Ian! D. Allen, MMath - [email protected] - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv Dance: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/ _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
