DawnTreader said:
Hello All
i have a quick curiosity questions regarding tasks. when i go to recur a
task there is 2 choices next to the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly choice
for the interval pattern. "Recur every (blank) week(s) on" or "Regenerate new
task (Blank) week(s) after each task is completed"
what is the difference?
any and all help appreciated
The Recur option doesn't care about whether or not the task's status is
Completed. Whether the task is done or not, it recurs at the specified
interval. You'll notice Recur and Regenerate are mutually exclusive of each
other. You can pick only one of them.
Recur digging a ditch every Monday.
1st Monday: Start digging ditch
2nd Monday: Start digging the 2nd ditch.
Doesn't matter if you've completed digging the first one so
maybe you have 2 ditches to dig.
3rd Monday: Start digging the 3rd ditch.
You haven't completed the first two so now you have 3 ditches
to dig.
Regenerate digging the next ditch when this one completes
1st Monday: Start digging the ditch.
5 weeks later on a Tuesday you finally complete digging the
first ditch.
7th Monday: Start digging the 2nd ditch.
You break a leg. Several months later you complete digging
the 2nd ditch.
many Mondays later: Start digging the 3rd ditch.
Recur means to occur at regular intervals (in the scheduling provided within
Outlook). Recur means the task shows up at the specified interval
regardless of the status for the prior instance of that task.
Regenerate means the repeated task occurs at irregular intervals based on
whenever the prior instance of that task was completed. The next task
doesn't show up until you marked the prior instance of it as completed.
