Hi, I would like to schedule a zap not for every day, but every *other* day. Is there a simple way to do this? The only similar solution I have seen is to trigger it for certain days of the week, but this is not every other day since there are 7 days a week. Also, I can imagine choosing only odd or even dates but this wouldn’t work if the 31st is followed by the 1st. Is there a way to do this seamlessly? Thank you very much.
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christina.d wrote:
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No, that doesn’t work as I need it every other day -- I am already using “schedule by zapier” for every day but I need it to be every other day.
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Hmm, this is a tricky one. My first instinct is the same as yours; using odd an even dates. But as you mentioned, that doesn’t always work.
I can think of a workaround, but it’s a bit messy:
Create a table in Google sheets with each day of the year on a new row. In the second column alternately type TRUE or FALSE (or 0 and 1, whichever you prefer).
After the Schedule trigger, add a Google Sheets Find Row step. Have it look up the date on which the trigger has fired.
Use a filter step to have the Zap only continue if the value in the second column is ‘TRUE’ (or 0, or whatever you pick).
As I said, this isn’t perfect, because you will use a task each day (to look up the value in the Google Sheet) before it hits the filter step. That’s the best workaround I can think of in this case. What do you think?
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