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Originally Posted by nbusse
One more question arises -
With repeating actions, must I set the repeat for each individual action? Or can I set the repeat for the whole project, and assume that it will repeat each child action within the project?
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Setting the repeat for the project makes the project repeat after you complete it. Setting a repeat for an action makes the action repeat after you complete it. You have to be a bit careful with repeating actions in projects because the repeat gets inserted right after the spot where you are, so if it is a sequential project, you won't be able to move on to the next task. I typically only use repeating actions in parallel projects or single-action lists for this reason.
Note also that the behavior of repeating a project means that you have to entirely finish the project (or at least mark it complete) before you get the next project instance created, so if you make a project for a weekly meeting, for example, you won't get a new project for the next week until you've done everything in the project for this week's meeting, which may not be a practical arrangement. One way to deal with that sort of situation is to use Curt Clifton's
Populate Template Placeholders script to stamp out the projects like cookies as needed, instead of trying to make them repeat (you could set up a reminder that did the repeating, telling you to make another one even though you had tasks still outstanding from the previous one).