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Why no fortnight repeat in alarms

(Topic created on: 10-03-2023 12:43 PM)
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Ubiquitary
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Every 2 weeks I have an early meeting at work. Why on earth is there no option to repeat my alarm once every fortnight? I can do this in calendar app but not the clock alarm app? My 5 year old Asus tablet has this feature but my $2500 Z fold 3 doesn't? Nice. 
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LenDog
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Haha bozo u take that L
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Ubiquitary
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English?
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LenDog
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Sussy baka emiltenjaka got that one two buckle my kaka
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A number of on-line calendars have this problem. This is due to users wanting two different things. One group I belong to wants true fortnightly meetings thus going 1, 3, 5, next month 2, 4 due to months which have e.g. 3 Tuesdays. The other group meets, say on 1st Monday, 3rd Monday and ignores the 5th Monday.in months with 3 Mondays. A nightmare for meeting schedulers for several groups with cross membership.
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Yup, kinda weird to be honest.

If you really needed it, you can try setting up on Modes and Routines.

Create a Calendar event every fortnight. Put keyword Alarm On on subject. Then create a routine where if a notification received from calendar with your keyword in subject, then turn on your alarm.

Create another calendar event with keyword Alarm Off that will run fortnightly. Then create another routine to look for that keyword, then set it to turn off your alarm.

Basically the idea is use the calendar event as trigger to turn on and off your alarm every fortnight. You just need to setup the timing of those 2 routines


Not a straightforward and not a clean approach, but I think possible if really needed.