Is there anyway to make a Task or Appointment that you do regularly at the same date and time repeat, or do I really have to enter them all one at a time for the entire year?! Seems like a very simple obvious feature for any calendar or task manager.
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Also asked ShootQ Support - their response:
Thanks for contacting ShootQ.
Unfortunately there is no way for you to create a task in ShootQ that will set a recurring alarm type of notification. Here are some solutions you may want to consider instead.
One way would be to create a standalone task (unrelated to a shoot) that has the due date for the next time you will attend a training session, for example. Then you can choose to mark it completed once done and create a new task for the next time this needs to be done. Your task might even be 'Attend training session and create next task'.
Another way would be to add this reminder to an external calendar that allows you to set reminders or alarms. Also, many external calendars will allow you to set a recurring event. For example, Google calendar will allow you to determine if something recurs after certain periods, like every week or every month.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions or need further assistance.
Best,
Neysa -
Hi Pierre. How did you solve this issue? I also have the same shoot every week and want to keep it under the same customer potel. Would be good if I could just keep recreating every week. So if the customer wants me back I click re-book and it's there for next week. Any help would be great -
No great solution at this time. I did recommend this as a feature in future upgrades. For now, I have to recreate the repeating appointment each time. I also create a task that reminds me to do this. It's a little cumbersome, which is what I wanted to avoid by switching to ShootQ, but it works. Still new to ShootQ and weighing benefits vs detriments. It seems to have some really great features, but lack some really basic things that should be easy to fix.
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I'd like to bump this again. Some of the non shoot related recurring tasks that I would be putting into the ShootQ task list if it supported recurring tasks:
Monthly Sales Tax Reporting
Quarterly Payroll Tax Reporting
Weekly Anniversary Cards Mailing
Send monthly rent check
Quickbooks Expense ReconciliationThese are all things that are tasks to be accomplished -- not appointments to be kept as the calendar workaround suggests. I would love my ShootQ task list to have all of my important tasks listed.
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Nathan - Totally agreed. Would be great to include those administrative tasks.
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What we did is this, we created a lead in ShootQ, named this lead "Office Calendar Only". We manually booked the shoot, with a line item of $0.00, scheduled "1 photographer", and booked the event out for May 1, 2020 (so we did not have to worry about any payment alerts). Now, when we need to book any meeting, appointment, even who is on the main phone line that day, we can open "Office Calendar Only", select the proper employee, create a calendar event for them and not have to worry about cross platform calendars. It's all in shootQ and attached to the employees calendar. Same thing for studio/ office tasks, just use this event for all in house needs for calendar purposes. No repeating available here though.
Or, you can create a calendar, via Google or something like that that you connect (Add an External feed) to your ShootQ calendar. In this Google or what ever calendar, create an event and you will easily be create the repeating rules for that event. This will bring them into your calendar also.
Workaround for the "office Only" event calendar ability is below, click quick view.
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Bumping this request. Seems like a basic necessity that would go before any enhanced features in my opinion. ShootQ should help streamline everything, including helping in negating the juggling of 2 calendars. Any updates on this coming??
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There is a way, but it would be a process to set up. What you cold do is create your in office shoot, no client, just for the office, set to 100 years in the future. From here, create a workflow, adding in the regular tasks that are scheduled, and set them up accordingly. Now book your own studio, with the workflow you created, and it will be stored into the system for you.
The process being setting up the workflow to have everything you need and set to schedule it as frequently as you need may be a pain in the butt.
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Come on, Shootq!! I don't think adding this feature is that hard!! I really think we should be able to add a repeat task!!
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