Daily Recurring task

[Debbie Turner]

I have tasks that I try to do daily on weekdays.  I have them setup to recur on a weekdays.  If I miss one of these tasks for example for a week, when I check it off, it generates the next day and I have to check them off for every day.  I was wondering if there is a way to have them generate only the future dates.  I know there is an option for regenerate x days after completion, but is there a way to regenerate on weekdays only?

[Jeff Smith]

I don't know a way, but it seems another thing that scripting could solve. It should be able to call a script on recursion where you can better define what it should do. It's getting too hard to keep adding options

On Thu, May 2, 2019, 13:05 Debbie Turner <in...@thepromowizard.com> wrote:

I have tasks that I try to do daily on weekdays.  I have them setup to recur on a weekdays.  If I miss one of these tasks for example for a week, when I check it off, it generates the next day and I have to check them off for every day.  I was wondering if there is a way to have them generate only the future dates.  I know there is an option for regenerate x days after completion, but is there a way to regenerate on weekdays only?

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[Dwight]

Hi Debbie Turner. I'm not sure I understand what you want. Are you saying that if you check it on a Monday you want it  to regenerate for Tuesday but if you check it on Friday you want it to skip ahead to Monday? Or are you saying that if you check it on a Monday you want it to come back the following Monday? -Dwight

[Debbie Turner]

Hi Dwight,

The first option you mentioned.  If I check it off on Monday, I want it to show on Tuesday, if I check it off on Friday, I want it to show up on Monday.

[Alisson]

If I understand You want to missed task for example is overdue -6 days, if you complete them, show due today, instead overdue -5 days correct?

If is, this is how I do: in the morning I alt click in the task, then select skip occur, select up today

this way MLO leave the task today ready to complete, the others seven missed task is skiped

I hope this help,

sorry for bad eng.

[Dwight Arthur]

As with anything in MLO there are probably multiple ways to do this. I will tell you how I handle it, if this does not work for you please write back and say why, there are probably other solutions.

First, create a new context. Call it something like *Weekday

Second, set it so that the *Weekday context is closed weekends and open weekdays. (In the panel on the right, click the "hours" tab to get a matrix showing all the times in a week in quarter hours increments.  They should all be in bright colours, which means "open". Click your mouse at the top of the Saturday column and drag to the bottom of the Sunday column, in order to draw a box that includes all of Saturday and Sunday. When you release the mouse button you should see Mon thru Fri in bright colours and Sat and Sun in black. This tells you that the *Weekday context is open Mon-Fri and closed Sat and Sun. If any blocks are the wrong colour, click on each incorrect block to flip it

Third, when all of the colours are correct, click "close" then create your task, context = *weekday (no other contexts) start date = due date = today, recurrence = regenerate one day after completion

If you do this on a Wednesday and you complete the task on Wednesday, it will become due Thursday and will vanish from your active tasks view. Tomorrow Thursday it will be back. If you do not get to it, it will be on your list Friday, but showing as overdue. Let's suppose that you complete the task on Friday - here's the magic- the task will regenerate as due Saturday but when you look at your active tasks, it will not show, because the context, *Weekdays, is closed on Saturdays. Sunday it will not show either because the context is closed Sundays as well. Monday it will be back on the view, showing a due date of Saturday and marked overdue.

I think this gives you just what you want - If you complete the task it goes away until the next weekday. If you don't complete the task it will remain on your active tasks but will blink out on the weekend and reappear on Monday

The downside is the restriction that your task cannot have any context besides *weekend. There are workarounds for this, if you need to add another context write back and I will explain.

-Dwight Arthur

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