Slack has the /remind command that allows you to set a reminder in a channel. I am trying to have slack remind me every fortnight starting from next Saturday at 8pm to jump on a call. It seems like an extension of the help documentation.
I tried:
/remind #here Fortnightly planning and retro every fortnight from saturday at 8pm
but it didn't work and the reminder states:
I will remind space-racing “planning and retro every fortnight from saturday at 8pm” at 9AM every other Saturday (next occurrence is April 22nd).
Any thoughts? thanks in advance
I was trying to do this today also. Either of these options work:
Needs to be run the week before you want it to start:
/remind me to "ABC" every other Saturday 8pm
/remind me to "ABC" Saturday 8pm every 2 weeks
Otherwise specify the start date
/remind me to "ABC" Jun 19th 8pm every 2 weeks
/remind me to "ABC" next Saturday 8pm every 2 weeks
Slackbot told me:
I will remind you to “ABC” at 8PM every other Saturday (next occurrence is June 19th).
Only achievable when setting a reminder <7 days when the first occurrence should happen. For example if you want to set the reminder at Saturday May 9th at 8pm, the earliest you can set the reminder is Saturday May 2nd 8:01pm
Then you run a command like so:
/remind #my-channel #my-group-to-notify This is my reminder message at 8pm every other Saturday
You can skip the channel or group of course. But it's nice if you run some team ceremonies and want to set reminder to specific people to attend a meeting etc.
Hint: you always set the time as per your current timezone, if other people are in different time zone the reminder will be at their time, so you don't need to worry that 8pm might be for them later/earlier. You all will see reminder in the same moment.
You can specify the starting date by the keyword starting at the end.
/remind #my-channel #my-group-to-notify This is my reminder message at 8pm every other Saturday starting April 29nd
But you need to set this. they week before you want to get notified.
For e.g Today is 7th September 2018 ( Friday) and you want to get notified on 21st September 2018 ( Friday ) i.e second Friday after today ( Friday ).
you need to use this command on next Friday. ie. on 14th September 2018 , use this command and slack will start reminding you after every other( second ) friday.
Example Command on SlackBot :
/remind me to "Send : Time Sheet" every other Friday 11am
Related
I'm looking for something like
/remind #channel "It's time for daily stand up !" Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday at 11:45am. Click here to join: Link.
/remind #channel "It's time for daily stand up !" every Monday and Tuesday and Thursday and Friday
You have many possibilities.
Example (implicit, weekday):
/remind #channel "It's time for daily stand up!" every weekday
or (long way, day list):
/remind #channel "It's time for daily stand up!" every Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday
and you can also add a specific time, for example:
/remind #channel "It's time for daily stand up!" at 9AM every weekday
Docs:
https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/208423427-Set-a-reminder
I'd like to schedule a meeting, using outlook, every 3rd Friday of each month.
As an example:
July 2019 --> Friday 19th
Aug 2019 --> Friday 23th
The first week of August (starting on Thursday) should not be counted.
Is there a way to set it using the default recurring options provided by outlook?
You may set up a corresponding meeting in Outlook manually and then check its properties in VBA programmatically:
Public Sub Test()
ActiveExplorer().Selection.Item(1)
End Sub
Don't forget to select the recurring appointment item in Outlook before running the VBA sub.
I am currently using slack, it’s a great team work tool. I have one issue though: when I create a remind say, /remind me “abc” at night, it sets the reminding time as 3pm. but this is not night, i would like to have 6pm, or better I can set it myself (i.e., set tonight as 6pm). How can I achieve this? - btw, i live in US west coast
You can use the time itself or a relative time:
/remind me "abc" at 6pm CST
/remind me "123" tomorrow night at 8pm CST
/remind me "youandme" 5 hours from now
You can also set your timezone data by exploring the /tz command
You can set it on the account level by following the instructions here.
I would like to use Heroku scheduler to run every OTHER Monday. However, it only runs hourly, daily, every 10 minutes.
I read this...
How can I schedule a 'weekly' job on Heroku?
However, I'm not sure what code can be used. I think I can figure out every Monday, but not every OTHER Monday.
thanks
As you get more complicated, I'd recommend checking out scheduling gems. If you want to stick to vanilla Ruby, look at a combination of monday? and cweek, which tells you the week number in the current year. Run your job on Mondays in even-numbered weeks.
date = Date.today
date.monday? && date.cweek.even?
Note that cweek can return 53, since 365 isn't divisible by 7 and it has to handle that last, partial week. The new year's first week will be 1 (it doesn't count from 0), so you have to either skip a week or do two runs in a row when Monday falls in week 53.
I have this recurring job in our Rails service that sends out emails on Friday every two weeks. However, based on our business requirement, the first week of the "every two weeks" schedule should be this week, which means the email should be sent out this Friday, and then 2 weeks after that, and 4 weeks after that, etc.
The schedule shouldn't be broken when the service restarts. For example, after the email is sent out this Friday, if I restart the service on Saturday, it shouldn't schedule the job to Friday next week -- should still be the Friday of the week after next week. In short, the week 0 should be persistent and stick to this week.
Is it doable in ice_cube? Or are there any other better solution? Thank!
Setting "week 0" is built into IceCube. When you create the schedule, specify the start time rather than Time.now.
2.1.4 :012 > s = IceCube::Schedule.new(Time.now.beginning_of_month)
2.1.4 :013 > s.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.monthly.count(3)
2.1.4 :014 > s.all_occurrences
=> [2014-12-01 00:00:00 -0500, 2015-01-01 00:00:00 -0500, 2015-02-01 00:00:00 -0500]
Here, I told IceCube the schedule starts at the beginning of this month, although I could have used any value. IceCube computes the schedule based on that time, giving me Dec 1, Jan 1, and Feb 1.