Help with Setting up Recurrence Relation

[Muhammed Hussain (MMSH24)]

Hi I have homework that is set every week on Tueday and due the following week on Thursday. How do I set up a recurrence relation so that the task repeats every Tuesday? Everytime I try doing so, I get an error message that my due date does not match my recurrence pattern; perhaps because of the potential of having two of the same task active at once.

[Dwight Arthur]

Hi, Muhammed. I think I can help.

First, the recurrence formula describes the due date. The error message you are getting sounds like you created a formula that matched the start date. Redo the formula to match the due date, task repeats every Thursday. be sure the "lock period" checkbox is not ticked, and then enter a lead time of 9 days. I would them tick the "lock period" box, it prevents me from changing the task duration by accident. But this is up to you whether you need that or not.

This will get you about halfway there. Next Tuesday the task will be active and will appear on your list of active tasks. Completion will be Thursday of the second week.When you mark it completed, it will regenerate with start on the Tuesday of the second week and completion on Thursday of the third week. This seems pretty close to what you want, except that on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you want to see two open tasks and we will have only one, the older one unless you copmplete it early, and then it will switch to the newer one. A single task in MLO cannot appear in two different places at once with two different sets of dates.

The way to fix this is to create two tasks. Set one to start this Tuesday and complete next Thursday, and set the other to start next Tuesday and complete the following Thursday. Set each of these tasks to repeat every two weeks on Thursday. I think this will give you just what you want.

Any questions, write back.

-Dwight

On 10/1/2023 10:14 AM, Muhammed Hussain (MMSH24) wrote:

Hi I have homework that is set every week on Tueday and due the following week on Thursday. How do I set up a recurrence relation so that the task repeats every Tuesday? Everytime I try doing so, I get an error message that my due date does not match my recurrence pattern; perhaps because of the potential of having two of the same task active at once.

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