Hello,
Just to share a simple Snooze function I’ve built onto our Tasks database.
How it works ?
When you click on Snooze button, you will be prompted to select a Snooze Mode, set a Date or a number of Days depending of the mode you selected. You will be able to recall a Task on a specific date, x days before a due date or x days after today. When you snooze a task, a reminder date will be calculated and your task will be Parked.
A rule will run every day and when the calculated date arrives, you are notified about the snoozed task (based on notification user preference). The state of the task will also be changed to Snoozed. It is possible to cancel a remind by clicking on Cancel Snooze button.
Stuff that you need
- 5 fields
- State [Workflow]
- Snooze Mode [Single Select]
- Note that you need to activate the “Specify numeric value for each option”
- Snooze (Date) [Date]
- Snooze (Days) [Number]
- Snooze Creation Date [Date]
- Remind on [Formula]
- 2 buttons
- Snooze
- Cancel Snooze
- 2 rules
- Remind Snoozed Task
- Cancel misconfigured Reminder
Fields
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Your workflow field should have the following options :
- Parked
- Snoozed
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“Snooze Mode” have 3 options :
- Remind me on (Date) [Value = 0]
- Remind me (Days) before Due Date [Value = 1]
- Remind me in (Days) [Value = 2]
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“Remind on” have the following formula :
If([Snooze Mode].Value = 0,
[Snooze (Date)],
If([Snooze Mode].Value = 1,
[Due Date] - Days([Snooze (Days)]),
If([Snooze Mode].Value = 2,
[Snooze Creation Date] + Days([Snooze (Days)]),
[Snooze Creation Date]
)
)
)
Buttons
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Snooze
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Cancel Snooze
Rules
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Remind Snoozed Task
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Cancel misconfigured Reminder
The Cancel misconfigured Reminder rule is there to avoid snoozed task that the user configured with a wrong date. If the user Snooze a task selecting a date before the current day, the task will never be reminded and will stay in Parked state.
Improvements
There is some improvements I would like to do but currently I’m limited on Fibery.
- Adding the ability to snooze on Months or Years basis. Currently there is only a Days(Date) function on formulas. I know that it is possible to adapt but I’m looking for a easy and native way.
- It’s great to be able to ask the user to fill values when he click on the button. The problem is that I can’t hide the fields that I don’t want to show up to the user. If I select a Snooze Mode “Remind me on (Date)” for example, I want to show the field “Snooze (Date)” and hide the field “Snooze (Days)”. I can achieve this by doing 2 different buttons but I want to limit the number of created objects. Another option is to have a field type on Fibery that can adapt his type dynamically based on conditions.
I hope it will be useful for someone !