How to set name templates for recurring tasks?


Templates allow to add date and/ or assign a corresponding number to the name of tasks.

To add a corresponding number, add %n to the template. If you need the number to contain 2 or 3 digits, then enter %nn and %nnn respectively. Numerations starts with number one but you can shift it by adding a template number, such as %n+10

In order to add a date, month, year or a quarter to a template, write a text in one word that will look like %dmy with any combination of letters d, D, m, M, q, Q, y, Y, where:

  • d — day of the month, 1-31,
  • D — day of the month with a zero, 01-31
  • m — number of a month with a zero, 01-12
  • M — name of a month (depends on the main language of the account)
  • q — quarter of a year (I, II, III, IV)
  • Q — quarter of a year with the added "quarter" word
  • y — year with 2 digits
  • Y — year with 4 digits
Thus, if today is February, 25th of 2013, then the %dmy template will yield the following text 25.02.13, %dM — February 25th, %MY — February 2013 (for monthly tax payments), %QY — I quarter of  2013 (for example, for delivering reports to the revenue services once in every 3 months)
Besides, you can also indicate a previous or a future date in the template. Thus, the %dmy-1 template corresponds to the yesterday's date, %M+1 — to the next month, and %QY-2 — to the one but last quarter.