On Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 at 12:01, Samuel W. Flint wrote: > I was wondering, is there a way to set a date-stamp so that it only > repeats a certain number of times? If not, what would it take to add > it?
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#org-class However, my usual approach (for timetabling lectures, say) is to use: ,----[ C-h f org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift RET ] | org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift is an interactive compiled Lisp | function in ‘org.el’. | | (org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift N &optional SHIFT) | | Clone the task (subtree) at point N times. | The clones will be inserted as siblings. | | In interactive use, the user will be prompted for the number of | clones to be produced. If the entry has a timestamp, the user | will also be prompted for a time shift, which may be a repeater | as used in time stamps, for example ‘+3d’. To disable this, | you can call the function with a universal prefix argument. | | When a valid repeater is given and the entry contains any time | stamps, the clones will become a sequence in time, with time | stamps in the subtree shifted for each clone produced. If SHIFT | is nil or the empty string, time stamps will be left alone. The | ID property of the original subtree is removed. | | If the original subtree did contain time stamps with a repeater, | the following will happen: | - the repeater will be removed in each clone | - an additional clone will be produced, with the current, unshifted | date(s) in the entry. | - the original entry will be placed *after* all the clones, with | repeater intact. | - the start days in the repeater in the original entry will be shifted | to past the last clone. | In this way you can spell out a number of instances of a repeating task, | and still retain the repeater to cover future instances of the task. | | As described above, N+1 clones are produced when the original | subtree has a repeater. Setting N to 0, then, can be used to | remove the repeater from a subtree and create a shifted clone | with the original repeater. | | [back] `---- -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-176-g45abec
