RM Help With Stopping Repeat

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Hi,
I have reminder rules that will warn me of upcoming tasks and then remind me and continually remind me until I acknowledge I have done them. Mainly for medication reminders. It will then decrement the amount of medication left.
The following is a new version that I'm trying to make more efficient. But I have an issue with stopping the repeat.

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I was thinking that if I stop it, it would continue on to update the counter. But it does not.

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Am I missing something on how things work when a rule is rerun?

I'm trying to keep things self-contained within the rule except for the cancel witch should stop any running reminder.

Any help is much appreciated.
-D

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Does your stop repeating actions work ok?
If it does them move your add 1 to counter to just above it.
If stop runs ok then the counter +1 should work as well.

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The issue with that is that the cancel switch is used to cancel any reminders. This would update the count even if this reminder is not repeating. I guess i can put in check if the reminder is repeating. I'm just trying to make this as efficient as possible.

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I may not be following this completely but how about something like this?

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It should repeat until your cancel switch changes (my GBR). You can add the counter to the loop.

Edit: The states of the while may not be correct but you should get the idea. I was quickly throwing together a sample.

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I did try it with a while, but the thing I haven't mentioned is that the count is announced in the real rule if it goes below a certain level. The condition is not evaluated until the next loop. So there would be a delay. Which could be up to 5 minutes in the real rule.

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I went with tracking whether the rule was running and doing the count adjustment in the else.
I would still like to know what the behaviour should be when a repeat is stopped. I would have thought it should have completed the rest of its instance of the rule. @bravenel can you enlighten me?