If you're using Reminders module, one of most common problem is about reusing reminders.

Logic

There are three possible statuses for reminder:

• upcoming - reminder is waiting its time
• to do - reminder has reached to its goal
• done - user has marked this reminder done

in upcoming state, you can edit current reminder, but it does not affect its status.

• upcoming ➞ to do - is done only in server
• upcoming/to do ➞ done - happens only when user marks reminder done.

This logic is summarised in following scheme:

Example

Let's assume we have one reminder for technical inspection, what happens once a year. There is set reminder one week before due date.

Once date comes, state is changed to to do:

If you want to properly finish that reminder, you have to mark it done:

• click mark as done
• set next recur date or other conditions
• save changes

After setting reminder done, it gets archived and you can find it from history tab:

If you made new copy from it, it's in current reminders with upcoming status, and has new date, year 2022.