When the user checks the Recurring box in any scheduling dialog, the
data-entry boxes to the right become active, as shown in the dialog excerpt in
Figure 41.
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Figure 41: Information for a recurring item.
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Figure 42: Interval selections.
The default recurring interval is weekly. When either this interval or the
biweekly interval is selected, the scheduling dialog contains seven check boxes
to the right of the interval selection, one box for each day of the week. When
the user checks one or more of the day boxes, the system schedules the item to
recur on the selected day(s). For example, ... .
2.4.4.2. Monthly Intervals
When the user selects the monthly interval, the system changes the recurring
dialog display as shown in Figure 43.
Which months:
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Which days of the week: Which dates:
1st week: S M T W Th F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
2nd week: S M T W Th F S 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
3rd week: S M T W Th F S 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
4th week: S M T W Th F S 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
5th week: S M T W Th F S 29 39 31
last week: S M T W Th F S
Figure 43: Monthly interval selected.
[Sketch: The yearly interval is simply an on/off setting indicating that an
item recurs once every year on the same date. I.e., no additional details
dialog appears with the yearly interval is selected. Even though this kind of
yearly recurrence could be specified using monthly, we'll leave it as a
convenience for the user, i.e., a quick way to do a yearly thing.