Is there a way to set an event to repeat, for example, every first and third Tuesday? So far it seems like I could only set it to every other Tuesday, but in months with three Tuesdays, it will throw the schedule off.
Just use the monthly option twice.
The monthly option is weird: you have to pick the first (or third) Tuesday of the month before hitting the repeat option. In other words, you have to set the option on 12/7 and on 12/21.
Did you have any trouble?
Yes, I’m still having trouble.
This issue is, this is a publication calendar. It outlines when the individual steps to create this publication are due. The ezine publishes every first and third Tuesday; so I have to work backwards from there to schedule the other steps:
[ul]
[li]final approval due the Monday before[/li][li]ezine created and testing process begins the Thursday before[/li][li]editorial staff reviews copy the Wednesday before[/li][li]copy is due to editorial the Tuesday before[/li][/ul]
The problem is, sometimes the Monday before the first Tuesday is the first Monday of the month. Sometimes it’s the last Monday of the previous month.
I need to find some way of chaining these events together, and make them repeat so the last event in the chain falls on the first and third Tuesdays. I’m not sure this is even possible. This is a shared calendar for a virtual office, so it’s really necessary to have this in a place that’s easily viewable at a glance.
If you have (or can obtain from someone else) a little bit of programming expertise, you can probably create the events programatically using the API (Google Calendar | Google for Developers).
I’ve used (very little) the Perl interface (Net-Google-Calendar-1.0 - programmatic access to Google's Calendar API - metacpan.org).
Certainly not me, but I’ll ask our webmaster and see what she says.