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Change date of repeating task

modbroad says:
I have had an issue with repeating tasks. If I change the due date of a task and it's already overdue it doesn't seem to change the due date of the next task (e.g. I have a task I want to complete every two weeks. If I've done the task late, it doesn't matter what the original date was, still want to do next time two weeks from completion time). Is the proper way to postpone instead of changing the date of a repeating task? Will that then postpone the future ones? Please let me know, thanks!
Posted at 4:37pm on August 13, 2009
raymond.bergmark Power Poster says:
Have you tried repeat interval after instead of every? Might solve your problem.

If a task with repeat interval every becomes overdue, RTM creates a new instance, meddling with the overdue instance probably won't affect the next instance.
Posted 15 years ago
modbroad says:
Thank you! I had used after and every thinking they were they served the same function. I believe using after will solve the problem, and I will postpone instead of changing the date in the repeat sequence. If that doesn't work I'll follow up on this post.
Posted 15 years ago
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
If you're using after, changing the date will still work. IMO that'd be easier if you're postponing by more than a day (though it wouldn't increment the postpone count, which may be a useful metric to you).
Posted 15 years ago
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