[Orgmode] Re: Scheduling of 2-day events

[Markus Heller]

Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Markus Heller <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > subject says it all.  Is this the appropriate way of doing scheduling
> > a 2-day event (couldn't find an example in the manual):
> >
> > * TODO Career/Training/Courses
> > ** TODO Project Management Workshop
> >    SCHEDULED: <2009-11-19 Thu 9:00-16:30>--<2009-11-20 Fri 9:00-16:30>
> >
> >
> > The agenda out put (C-c a a) looks like this:
> >
> > Thursday   19 November 2009
> >   ABC:       9:00-16:30 Scheduled:  TODO Project Management Workshop
> >   ABC:       9:00-16:30 (1/2):  TODO Project Management Workshop
> > Friday     20 November 2009
> >   ABC:      (2/2):  TODO Project Management Workshop
>
> I would just drop the SCHEDULED: part
>
> ** TODO Project Management Workshop
>    <2009-11-19 Thu 9:00-16:30>--<2009-11-20 Fri 9:00-16:30>
>
> so you don't get a duplicate entry.  I'd also drop the TODO since it's
> scheduled for a block of time and when the time is gone it's done -
> whether you mark it DONE or not.


Thanks for your reply, Bernt.

The TODO changes to STARTED when I clock this task in, which I do when 
I'm working on my preparation.  I could have a sub-task for preparation 
and clock this, but in the end, this doesn't really matter too much to me.

Cheers
Markus