Repeating items?

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  • January 6, 2011 at 8:55 pm
    brightdays
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    I have some things that repeat with no problem from day to day and others that do not.  Mostly I am having trouble with chores.  I can see them in the added resources and have set them for everyday of the week.  It seems that with certain ones once my son has completed them they don’t show up for the next day.  These jobs don’t have any divisions as they are things like walk the dog, empty dishwasher, feed the dog, laundry rotation, and those sort of things.

    Thanks for any thoughts or ideas.

    Christi

    P.S.  As I am getting the hang of this I am seeing what a wonderful tool it is.  Thinking of how I can impliment it for my 7yo with Down syndrome.

    January 6, 2011 at 9:35 pm
    Sonya Shafer
    Moderator

    I think you happened on the answer when you said, “These jobs don’t have any divisions.” If the resource has no divisions, once it is marked Finished, the Organizer thinks you’re done with the whole thing and takes it off the Daily Plan. So to keep it appearing, you would either need to mark it Worked On, rather than Finished, or give it some divisions.

    If you prefer divisions, so your son can check things off as Finished, you could easily do something like Resource: “Walk the Dog” and Division Type: “Day.” So it would show up as Walk the Dog, Day 1; Walk the Dog, Day 2; etc. Would that work?

    January 7, 2011 at 1:23 am
    suzukimom
    Participant

    As Sonya said – when you click on Finished for those items, it says that you are done the whole resource.  (Think of a book – once you say you have finished the book, you are done with it.) 

    So you need to click on “worked on” instead of Finished.

    However, I’ve found that when you click on “worked on” for LONG periods of time (say a year of music practice)… you end up with a LOT of dates listed.

    Something some of us do (has been recommended) for some things like music practice is setup the resource with 12 divisions… 1 for each month.  You select “worked on” for each day they do it… and the last day of the month they do it… go to finished.  Reschedule the next year.

    January 7, 2011 at 3:02 am
    Sonya Shafer
    Moderator

    Yes, too many Worked On dates can get unwieldy. (The programmers are actually working right now on a way to make those less cumbersome, by the way. Hoorah!)

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