moderated Calendar: Allow "Last [day of week] of month" for repeating events #suggestion
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webminder@...
I have an event that is held on the last Tuesday of every month, but unfortunately, I cannot create a repeating event to cover the entire year because the options to repeat currently are on the number'd day of the month, or the same week of every month (ex: 4th Tuesday of the month). Some months may have 4 weeks with that day of the week, while others may have 5.
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I would love to see something like this as well. One of my groups has something that goes out on the last day of the month, and right now I'm having to send it manually. The only way I can think to get it on the calendar is to set it up for each month individually, on that month's last day, then have it repeat on a yearly basis. But that still leaves the problem of February. It would be a great help to have a last-day-of-the-month option.
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~Jan
On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 01:25:59 PM PST, webminder@w4bfb.org <webminder@w4bfb.org> wrote:
I have an event that is held on the last Tuesday of every month, but unfortunately, I cannot create a repeating event to cover the entire year because the options to repeat currently are on the number'd day of the month, or the same week of every month (ex: 4th Tuesday of the month). Some months may have 4 weeks with that day of the week, while others may have 5. Bonus points if you can easily exclude certain occurrences of the event during the event creation. (Ex: Last Tuesday of the month for all months except June & December)
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 07:35 PM, Jan Long wrote:
One of my groups has something that goes out on the last day of the month, and right now I'm having to send it manually. The only way I can think to get it on the calendar is to set it up for each month individually, on that month's last day, then have it repeat on a yearly basis.Last day of every month is fairly easy. Set up the event for the first day of the (following) month and repeat monthly, then set it to send a reminder 1 day before it occurs. Also, don't send a notice when the event does occur. That should do what you want unless I misunderstood something. Duane
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Ditto- except to appear on days of the month, not dates.
First and Third Sunday for instance. When I set up monthly repeats it defaults to the 'date' used and then applies it to a week day- not pretty. Thanks d
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:25 PM <webminder@...> wrote:
How would you change the interface to allow specifying this? Thanks, Mark
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Malcolm Austen
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:05:15 -0000, Mark Fletcher <markf@corp.groups.io> wrote:
I don't remember where but I have seen it done programatically by allowing the 5th Xday to be chosen and then interpreting it as the 4th when there is no 5th. -- Malcolm Austen <malcolm.austen@...>
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Dave Wade
Mark, Yahoo simply allowed “repeat monthly” and “last Tuesday” as an option Dave
From: main@beta.groups.io <main@beta.groups.io> On Behalf Of Mark Fletcher
Sent: 27 February 2020 18:05 To: main@beta.groups.io Subject: Re: [beta] Calendar: Allow "Last [day of week] of month" for repeating events #suggestion
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 1:25 PM <webminder@...> wrote:
How would you change the interface to allow specifying this?
Thanks, Mark
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:24 PM, <webminder@...> wrote:
I cannot create a repeating event to cover the entire year because the options to repeat currently are on the number'd day of the month, or the same week of every month (ex: 4th Tuesday of the month).You can achieve this with a bit of playing around. Here are the steps I used for something similar (working from today's date):
Hopefully this helps until we get a better solution. Andy
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Bill Burns
Google calendar is similar. You just create a monthly event on the appropriate day in the current month (today is the last Wednesday in February, for example), and it provides the two choices shown in the attached screencap.
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Bill
On 27-Feb-20 1:47 PM, Dave Wade wrote:
Mark,
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