Dismiss All ?

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Stu Mark

I set an event in my calendar (at home). The event was a reminder to me to
take care of something, but I knew that it would take many days to handle
the whole thing, so I made one event last over two weeks.

Every day it would remind me. Which is fine, except that once I got it
done, the next notification that came up, I selected "Dismiss All", figuring
that would stop the reminding. In fact, it didn't, and I still get the
reminders.

I found the series and deleted it, but why was that happening? Is it user
error? Am I missing something? Is there a better way to handle a multi-day
task that needs a daily reminder?

Thanks,

Stu
(who hopes you had a good weekend)

NP: Garden Of Paradise by Steve Hillage
 
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Barry Wainwright

I set an event in my calendar (at home). The event was a reminder to me to
take care of something, but I knew that it would take many days to handle
the whole thing, so I made one event last over two weeks.

Every day it would remind me. Which is fine, except that once I got it
done, the next notification that came up, I selected "Dismiss All", figuring
that would stop the reminding. In fact, it didn't, and I still get the
reminders.

I found the series and deleted it, but why was that happening? Is it user
error? Am I missing something? Is there a better way to handle a multi-day
task that needs a daily reminder?

Thanks,

Stu
(who hopes you had a good weekend)

NP: Garden Of Paradise by Steve Hillage
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I am guessing that you made a recurring event, rather than a multi-day
event. The recurring event is a series of events that recurr with th
einterval you set up - presumably in your case, an all day event recurring
every day. A mutli-day event is a single event that starts on one day and
ends on a later day.

Recurring events will activate their alarms on the day they occur - i.e.
Every day, in your case. So, you get a fresh alarm from a fresh event every
day. This may be what you want :)

Multi-day events are single events. You will get only one alarm on the day
that the event starts. No other alarms after this.

When you chose 'dismiss all' from the alarm dialog, this command dismisses
all _currently active_ alarms. It will not prevent alarms from activating on
events that have not triggered yet. So, the next recurring event in the
series will still trigger a fresh alarm the next day.

To accomplish what you want you would be better making a single multi-day
event, and instead of dismissing the alarm, select 'snooze' for one day,
then, the same alarm will retrigger the following day. When you are finished
with the activity, then you can dismiss the event and the alarm will be
killed for good.
 
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Stu Mark

I am guessing that you made a recurring event, rather than a multi-day
event.
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Bravo! I am knocked out by your ability to explain it to me so I got it the
first time through. Youse a good writer and stuff. Seriously, thanks,
'cause I totally get it now.

Thanks again,

Stu
(who is sincere, just trying to lighten the mood)

NP: Lumpy Gravy, Pt. 1 by Frank Zappa
 
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Barry Wainwright

Bravo! I am knocked out by your ability to explain it to me so I got it the
first time through. Youse a good writer and stuff. Seriously, thanks,
'cause I totally get it now.

Thanks again,
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Thanks :)

Especially thanks for the feedback. Glad we got it sorted.
 
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