ICal 3.0: Last day of the month repeating event

I am migrating back to iCal after a few years using Entourage. I am trying to set up calendar events and reminders for the last day of every month, but I can't figure out how to do it. In Entourage this was easy. Any advice? Thank you.

I would like this to be an easy feature included in iCal as I get paid on the 16 and second to last day of the month. I want iCal to show the event in the calendar, not for me to set the event and have an alarm for 24 hours before. I tried the trick found at http://www.macworld.com/article/47872/2005/11/trickical.html but that does not work with iCal 3.0.
Any help would be appreciated or maybe Apple adding this in the repeating section of the ical event seeing it is apart of the icalendar specification.
tim

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Have a Daily transaction fact where unit cost of product is stored at a day/part num /business unit level.
When we drag and drop date column and unit cost in the report like below we will have
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Sep29     $10
sep30     $12
Oct1       $12
Oct2       $14
..........ans so on
The source sustem program runs on last day of the month around 8pm for setting up cost to reflect on 1st of every month
But the nighly OBI load ( Runs at 2am every day) when incrementally updating Sep30 data picks up $12 from the erp and populates in OBI.
But actually speaking, on Sep30 the cost was $10.
There is no way of running the ERP program to run afer OBI load. Hence we need an expression in the RPD (not answers) saying
when last day of the month (any month) the standard cost must be a previous day value.All other days the same value should be returned.
Is this possible without impacting report performance ?
So, when we drag and drop date and cost value the above report should change as
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sep29     $10
sep30     $10
Oct1       $12
Oct2       $14
Oct30     $12.5
Oct31     $12.5
Nov1      $13.5

You can achieve the above requirement for current month alone with below steps:
The solution requires to have a union report
First part of the report will have Date and Cost fields with a report level date filter, Date NOT IN (TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_DAY , -(1), TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_MONTH , 1, TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_DAY , DAYOFMONTH( CURRENT_DATE) * -(1) + 1, CURRENT_DATE))))
Second part of the report will have Date and Cost fields with a report level date filter Date IN (TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_DAY , -(1), TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_MONTH , 1, TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_DAY , DAYOFMONTH( CURRENT_DATE) * -(1) + 1, CURRENT_DATE))))In the second part of the report,
Change the column formula for Date to display only Current_Date
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I have a report that will generally be run for a month but can be run for any pair of dates representing the first and last date to be included in the report.
When we pass the dates from Oracle Apps to the report it is truncating the date to midnight. This results in the last date entered 'NOT' being included in the report as the second date is marked as "midnight". When I attempt to simply add "=1" to the end date it fails due to formatting issues in apps (only). I have gotten this to work on our Enterprise edition server that we use for testing (only) but it fails in our apps environment.
In APPs we input the date in the format "01-AUG-2007", and this is how it shows in the parm line before the report is submitted as well as in the "View Details" after the report is executed: http://home.swbell.net/grog1//work/req_details_5607586.jpg
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No. The problem/error occurs long before the data is formatted into xml for presentation to the format template.
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pls advise
else
i'll try to add_month + 1 to current month and format to the first day and minus 1 day from that new month
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\We convered the last day of the month in [your previous question|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=3942939#3942939].
At that time, I warded about using LAST_DAY as a cutoff point; TRUNC is a much better way.
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Try this way.
Selection-screen
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INITIALIZATION.
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IF sy-subrc <> 0.
 MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
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and working hours detail of each day.
when i enter the date in detail block it defaults the month from system date and i can not enter 31 for the month of march if system date is April.
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(and populate the dummy date field in post-query of course).
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the code goes like this...
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REPORT z123.
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