Can't think of the word - Increments maybe?

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Can't think of the word - Increments maybe?

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OK, in my calendar system, I'm implementing a recurring event system. On almost all (if not all) types of recurring event, you have to specify what the increments are. I believe increments is the wrong word, but that's what I'm using. I need some help on what to call this. Here are a few examples:

This event happens every BLANK days

This event happens every BLANK months on the 23rd

This event happens every BLANK weeks on Friday

This event happens every BLANK months on the 3rd sunday of the month

What would be BLANK part be called? Increments? :?
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Interval.
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:-D you da man
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I know. I give til it hurts. ;)
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well since you are so good, here's another one:

This event happens every 3 months on the BLANK (23rd of the month OR third wednesday of the month)

This event happens every BLANK weeks on BLANK (mon-sun)

What would you call this blank?
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

you guys crack me up

in Sunbird they use the format:

occurs: [daily. weekly, monthly, annually]

every (x days) | (x weeks on [SMTWTFS]) | (x months on the [Y|second Tuesday] of the month) | (x years)

repeat [forever| X times | until]
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This event happens every 3 months on the BLANK (23rd of the month OR third wednesday of the month)
Personally, I would use scheduled for this one.
This event happens every BLANK weeks on BLANK (mon-sun)
Repeats - Selected day

EDIT | (not so sure about Repeats here, I am still thinking about this...)
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Kieran Huggins wrote:you guys crack me up
why would I call it that?? :?
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This event repeats weekly (monthly, daily) on a selected day.

I like this one better.
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man - you guys are fast.. I just edited my earlier post
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I'm not sure what you mean. :?
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

there's a repeat checkbox that activates a "set pattern" button that opens an "Edit Recurrence" dialog... surely there's a decent word in there :-)

It would be nice if it were a little clearer I suppose...
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I'm trying to emulate the interface from Mozilla Sunbird. Is that where you got that wordage%AC :)
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

sort of - I use the "lightning" addon in thunderbird - it's essentially Sunbird.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Wordage... nice. I say since you are making up you should make your own words for your descriptors.

Repeatance, reocurrancing, eventries, intervalances, patternified... Man, someone stop me I am on a roll!
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