Reminder Repeat

I appologize if this is common knowledge or has been answered elsewhere but I've spent an hour trying to get the answer. I am trying to understand how the repeat function works for reminders, and have read multiple different answers. I'll layout the scenario of what I hope it does and if someone who knows could let me know that would be greatly appreciated.
I am hoping that after you add a date to a reminder, the repeat option will repeatedly alert you on the set interval about the reminder until you mark the reminder as complete. Once the reminder is complete, it is done and the reminder is not recreated.

If you set a monthly reminder for the 30 what would you expect it to do in February?
If you set it for the 31st what would you expect it to do for February, April, June, September or November?
It has to be custom to work in these circumstances.
The Palm calendar simply defaulted to the last day of the month if the month was shorter than the specified date. But that isn't always what users wanted either.

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I've played around a bit with setting reminders but I can't seem to get it to do what I want.
For example: I want to be reminded with a pop up alarm of an event say 4 days prior to the event and also every day leading up to the event .
Do I have to set up 4 reminders one for each of the days prior to the event or is there a way to just have one reminder repeat it's self every day for a specific number of days before an event.
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AK

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I have already created a latest end modeled deadline to send out a reminder in 1 hour. I was thinking that, the modeled deadline would send the reminder every one hour. But the reminder gets sent only once. The client wants repeated reminders.
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Hi,
Thanks for your response.
So here is what I did:
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Thanks again, but have you read the question?
I already have a reminder which repeats daily. The way Remidners does this is to show just today's event and, as you point out, when you check it off, Reminders creates tomorrow's event.
However, today's event – but not tomorrow's nor the next day's nor the next day's etc. – has been cancelled, and I want to delete today's event. However, when I delete today's event, Reminders doesn't create tomorrow's event, and the reminder and all it's subsequent iterations are gone. I wanted to delete just today's iteration of a repeating reminder but, in doing it, I deleted _all_ iterations. Do you understand?
Calendar behaves differently, and shows all iterations of repeating appointments and, when you delete one, it asks if you want to delete just that one or all future events. Reminders should do this, too, but it doesn't.
I hope this is clear, I don't know how else to explain it.
Steve = : ^ )

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