How do I find Biweekly function in Rulemachine?

[mailtomatte]

How do I find Biweekly function in Rulemachine ? I can't find how I make a rule with it....

/Mattias

[sburke781]

Perhaps this is what you are after? A Periodic Schedule as the trigger, using the Daily option and every N days, where N is 14? The only thing I couldn't see how to do is set the start day, e.g. if you wanted to setup a rule to start triggering every two weeks from this Friday, I could only set how many days in between....

Simon

[tray_e]

I use two rules in Rule Machine to set an alarm every other Sunday.

The first one is an alarm that is set for weekly and only goes off if a virtual switch is on. The second rule turns the virtual switch off or on weekly, depending on what state it is currently in:

Weekly Alarm

Conditions

Virtual Switch Toggle (NOTE: This needs to happen AFTER your alarm or whatever you have scheduled occurs)

[terminal3]

Just to show there are many ways to skin the proverbial cat.

I variation on tray_e's method would be to use one rule and a Boolean.

Trigger weekly on whatever day

If Boolean True
    Do Stuff
    Set Boolean False
ELSE
    SET Boolean True
ENDIF

[tray_e]

I like this. The only reason I use the rule set that I do is that they sometimes swap her schedule. So, I need a way to flip the weekends. (Virtual switch does well for this) Otherwise, I would be all over this method..... (And may use it for other biweekly tasks)

@terminal3

variation on tray_e's method would be to use one rule and a Boolean.

[terminal3]

Your way is perfectly valid, but as a side note. With the use of variable connectors you can set the boolean via a dashboard just like a switch.

[tray_e]

I may have to look at that. Would be nice to have one less rule to keep up with.