This page explains how to deal with recurrent events like birthdays or weekly meetings:
Recurrent Events
There are events, which are repeated regularly like wedding day or a monthly report and which should be managed by an electronic calendar. meineZIELE offers two different kinds of recurrent events.
1. Recurrent Events can be connected to
an entry in Your goals list. Thats is how You could include birthdays in a structured circle of life "family". The connection is made by right mouse
menu or the "recurrent events" icon.
In this way it is possible to have entries with linked files (e.g. monthly checklist) as a recurrent date on the calendar. There it will appear on all regular dates. (But You will change these into a copied entry (including 1-click-filing) only when You are going to tackle this task and for example You want to load a connected checklist. )
2. Recurrent events can exist without corresponding
entries in the goals list (e.g. public holidays) Take the "recurrent events"-button to edit them.
Example: Birthday
In the Recurrence window there is a multitude of options and settings for every kind of recurrent event:
Frequency: year, month, week, day, random
Start date, e.g. the original birthday, on which all repetitions are based.
Calculations: From a birthday (1) mZ will calculate the age an show it. In addition You might want to know some special days (for ever more birthday parties) e.g. the day on which a person is 8888 days old. (Or You are married for 7777 days) Just enter Your wedding day as a recurrent date. Then select "7777 days" (2) . (This will calculate a lot more of such days like 2000 or 11111 ...)
Example: Monthly event
Maybe on the 3 rd of each month (1) and (2) You want to be remembered to YOur tax statement. There is no date limit (3):
Advance: Business events or the birthday of a colleague don´t make sense on a weekend. You might want to have them displayed on monday. This option shifts the event for example to a desired weekday or the next working day (4) .
Random: Events, which are calculated by chance (e.g. flowers for Your wife) please enter the frequency. Only days, on which You use meineZIELE will be counted. Example: You want to bake Your husbands´ favourite apple cake every six weeks on average and You are opening mZ every day. Then enter 6 x 7 = 42 days.
Example: Public holidays
Public holidays of different countries are selected in options / settings / publich holidays. It is possible to combine the holidays of two or more countries.
Some publich holidays are in some way connected to easter, which itself is calculated from phases of the moon. In the shown example a local carnival event every year (2) is 48 days before easter sunday. (3). In this case there is no reference date (1).
Which event on which calendar?
You might want to have Your daily training displayed on the "today" and "schedule" view but it does not make sense on the yearly calendar. You can set this in options / settings / recurrent events:
At(1) You have a list of Your calendar views. At (2) You have the frequencies (day, month, year, week, random)
Different Timetables
Sometimes You might need different
timetables, e.g. for several children. Or You would like to have only the most important events displayed. Or You want to separate private and business
entries ...
This is done with plan numbers (1).
You can assign a number to each recurrent event. In the options / settings / recurrent events You set the plans to be encluded (valid for every calender view).
Repeated events:
Some events are not repeated exactly. A press deadline for example could easily postponed or pre-fetched by a day or two from a calculated regular date, but this new date has to be observed exactly. Such repetitions are created by selecting the original entry and a click on the desired calender day while pressing Cntrl. That copies the entry (including any outlined structure).
