# Include a task in all but the first cycle point

**URL:** <https://cylc.discourse.group/t/include-a-task-in-all-but-the-first-cycle-point/115>\
**Category:** Cylc Support\
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/include-a-task-in-all-but-the-first-cycle-point/115 "2019-08-07T02:12:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/include-a-task-in-all-but-the-first-cycle-point/115/3 "2019-08-07T16:03:13Z")

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Hi,

There is some good documentation on recurrence sections in another part of the docs ([https://cylc.github.io/doc/built-sphinx-single/index.html](https://cylc.github.io/doc/built-sphinx-single/index.html)) I often look back to this list of examples ([https://cylc.github.io/doc/built-sphinx-single/index.html#advanced-examples](https://cylc.github.io/doc/built-sphinx-single/index.html#advanced-examples)).

Hillary’s solution is the nicest (to those familiar with Cylc’s internals):

```auto
R/^+P1Y/P1Y

```

There is another approach which has it’s place which is to exclude (`!`) the intitial cycle point (`^`) from the recurrence:

```auto
R/P1Y!^

```

[https://cylc.github.io/doc/built-sphinx-single/index.html#advanced-exclusion-syntax](https://cylc.github.io/doc/built-sphinx-single/index.html#advanced-exclusion-syntax)

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