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JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

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[SOLVED] Remind: How to omit dates only for certain reminders

Just installed remind and I'm loving it. But I came across a little problem:

Now, I've got my normal tasks and stuff, and I have my uni stuff. Problem is that I have certain days, such as lecture recesses, that should only stop uni related stuff from popping up. I tried the PUSH-POP, as shown in the example below, and it works just fine.
But now my lecture reminders are not omitted on public holidays any more --- which they should of course. So I'm guessing I may have overlooked something. Been reading the man pages up and down and searched online but couldn't find any useful clues.

Any hints would be highly appreciated.

#UNIVERSITY
PUSH
 OMIT 2010-04-19 MSG Lecture recess
 OMIT 2010-04-20 MSG Lecture recess
 OMIT 2010-04-21 MSG Lecture recess
 OMIT 2010-04-22 MSG Lecture recess
 OMIT 2010-04-23 MSG Lecture recess

 REM 2010-02-22 *7 AT 15:00 DURATION 0:50 UNTIL 2010-05-24 SKIP MSG Lecture 1
 REM 2010-02-22 *7 AT 09:00 DURATION 0:50 UNTIL 2010-05-24 SKIP MSG Lecture 2
POP

#PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
     #NEW YEAR
     OMIT 01 Jan MSG New Year's Day
    #EASTER
     SET easter EASTERDATE(YEAR(TODAY()))
     OMIT [TRIGGER(easter-2)] MSG Good Friday
     REM [TRIGGER(easter-1)] MSG Easter Saturday
     REM [TRIGGER(easter)] MSG Easter Sunday
     OMIT [TRIGGER(easter+1)] MSG Easter Monday

etc ........

Cheers

Last edited by JackH79 (2010-02-07 06:41:27)

skanky

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From: WAIS

Registered: 2009-10-23

Posts: 1,847

Re: [SOLVED] Remind: How to omit dates only for certain reminders

I haven't used remind for anything especially sophisticated, but the way I understand the PUSH & POP commands is that you are setting the REMs outside of the global OMIT context - though I did think you needed a CLEAR to remove all OMITS first. You could try putting the global OMITs first, but I'm not sure that's the one.

One thing you could do instead of the PUSH & POP is create a Lecture Recess OMITFUNC that is used for the Uni stuff. Remember to use the isomitted() function in to catch the global OMITs too.

Incidentally, there is a low volume remind users list here:
http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans

It's read by the writer who will answer the tough stuff, and the archives can be useful for some ideas.

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JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 663

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Re: [SOLVED] Remind: How to omit dates only for certain reminders

Thanks for the for your suggestions and the link. Will try to get some information there and report back.

EDIT: Just got a very quick reply from David, the author of remind. The solution is elegant and simple, and has been suggested by skanky (thanks again) as well: put the holidays before the uni stuff. It works!

Last edited by JackH79 (2010-02-07 06:40:39)

skanky

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Registered: 2009-10-23

Posts: 1,847

Re: [SOLVED] Remind: How to omit dates only for certain reminders

Saw your email. The answer clarified for me how it worked, so win win.

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