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Applescript: Planning weekly recurring activities

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 29. April 2010

Now and then we get asked in support, how to plan weekly recurring activities. The user planned its first occurrence on a specific day (on a Tuesday for example) and simply wants to know, how to bring Merlin to repeat the activity on the next 12 Tuesdays in a row.

Well, there is no such setting in Merlin currently. We would recommend you either copy and paste as often as needed, or drag&drop the planned activity into your library to have it on the long run. You can then modify the earliest planned start date of  the inserted copies, one by another  and place them there where you want to have them. Meaning; on the appropriate dates.

Another approach would be to write an AppleScript taking over the manual parts of your copy and paste actions.

What a great idea you think, but I don’t want to write an Applescript only because I would like to plan a recurring activity once in my life in Merlin.

That’s fine with us. We have posted such a “Send To”-Applescript in the German Merlin user forum by Google* as a similar question** was posted.

The Script reacts on the selection. It replicates the current selection as often you wish by the offset (in days) you define. So if wanting to accomplish the requirement mentioned in the begging of this post, you start the script and enter 12 (for repeat 12 times) and then 7 (to have them a week from Tuesday)

Easy, isn’t? Have fun and be productive

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*) You’ll find the Merlin Google forum for English speaking Merlin users  here

**) If you have difficulty locating the mentioned script, simply dowload a copy from our server.

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Tags: Applescript, Merlin, Recurring Activities