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Message started by ref on 08/06/10 at 00:26:28

Title: more choices to extend popup alarms
Post by ref on 08/06/10 at 00:26:28

I use alarms a lot and I very often extend them. If an alarm pops up and I want to extend it, it is not possible to extend it for between 6 hours and 24 hours. In other words, I get multiple choices to extend an alarm for less than an hour, or for 1,2,3,4,5 or 6 additional hours, but then my choices skip to 1 or more days or weeks.

What I would very much like to have is additional choices so that I could extend an alarm for 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22, or 23 hours.

It could look like this:

How long til next alarm?
min 5 10 15 30 45 90
hrs 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
dys 1 2 3 4 5 6
wks 1 2 3 4 5 6

Is there any way to do this?
Thanks!

Title: Re: more choices to extend popup alarms
Post by Admin on 08/07/10 at 17:56:42

1. might also repost in Slang extension requests thread here (http://forums.eccomagic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?board=slangmgh).

2. maybe an issue with how you are using alarms. there would be a way to get your result without using alarms. If you'd explain your work flow, might be able to suggest something.

Title: Re: more choices to extend popup alarms
Post by ref on 08/07/10 at 18:34:51

Thanks for your response. As to you point #2, here is how I use alarms: I set alarms for an item on my To Do list. For example to call someone at a certain time or do a task at a certain time. Sometimes when the alarm pops up I make the call or do the task then as originally intended. However, not infrequently, when the alarm pops up I may want to postpone the action or call to a later time. Very often that later time is more than 6 hours away but not as much as a day away so I either have to extend it for 6 hours multiple times or go into the item to reconfigure the alarm time (and maybe date also). Both of these methods are tedious. It would be much better if I could extend the alarm for the number of hours that I would prefer.

Title: Re: more choices to extend popup alarms
Post by Admin on 08/07/10 at 21:11:30

Would an 'alarm quickset' tool do the job ?

eg.,

you don't renew the alarm, but instead select the relevant item & press the quick alarm button.

You then select time frame for alarm. At that time, alarm activates.

Title: Re: more choices to extend popup alarms
Post by ref on 08/08/10 at 00:03:32

Not sure what you mean. Does such a thing, an alarm quickset tool, exist? I want to minimize the number of clicks because I use a lot of alarms and extend them often. If I want to extend an alarm using one of the choices available in the dropdown box, the extending process takes 3 clicks: open the dropdown box, choose the length of time to extend, then click to close. If a way to extend alarms (or set new ones) could be easier than that it would be great and extremely helpful.
Thanks!

Title: Re: more choices to extend popup alarms
Post by Admin on 08/08/10 at 14:59:00

no such tool exists, but it could.

does not should would be helpful.

you'd have to find the actual ecco item & then press or click for 'custom alarm' or something.