[Orgmode] Re: Question about end date for a scheduled task

[Memnon Anon]

Avinash Kulkarni <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, Is there a way to specify when a particular task should stop
> repeating? For instance, I need to backup the server in my office once
> a week for the next 3 weeks, after which the employee in charge will
> take it over again. Right now, I just added it as a C-x C-s +1w
> scheduled task, but this causes it to show up on my agenda even after
> the third week. Is archiving this task the only option?

For a task only repeated 3 times, I settled on giving each instance a
separate entry. If it is a complex item with several subitems,
the command org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift command helps a lot.

,----[ (info "(org)Structure editing") ]
| `C-c C-x c'
|      Clone a subtree by making a number of sibling copies of it.  You
|      will be prompted for the number of copies to make, and you can
|      also specify if any timestamps in the entry should be shifted.
|      This can be useful, for example, to create a number of tasks
|      related to a series of lectures to prepare.  For more details, see
|      the docstring of the command `org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift'.  
`----

hth