Why there is no option for a fixed date in automation?

Hello @Tajon welcome to the community!

I believe the main goal of automations is to enable certain functionality with pre-programmed occurrence patterns; hence, the options allow for configuring exactly that: patterns.

A fixed date differs from the concept of "patterns", and seems more like a specific use-case scenario. Could you describe a little further what that scenario looks like?

Maybe one user here in the community can come up with a solution for your use-case.

Best regards.

Andrés D'Andrea

Hi Matthias, thanks for your feedback.

Since you're moving your tasks back and forth, I guess you're using the same task over and over, just changing the due date, right?

In that case, maybe one solution could be to create a recurring task automation, which generates different tasks with a certain frequency, every 4 weeks for example.

One difference of this way of working in comparison with your current workflow would be that tasks will have to be completed/archived once done, so the same activity will be tracked with different tasks over the weeks. One new task automatically created every 4 weeks.

👇 This is the help article for recurring tasks with further details about that type of automation:

Create a Recurring Task

You are welcome to write your questions in German because we have many German-speaking experts like @Jörg Koper, @Olaf Roeb and @Rooster McNugget who can give a helping hand in your native language if needed 😉

I hope this helps, best regards 👍

Andrés D'Andrea