Hi islipperyfish,
Unfortunately it's not possible to create this kind of repeating task. You can repeat "every month on the 1st Saturday", for example, but you're not able to combine this with "every December". Sorry for any inconvenience.

If you set the due date for your task to the first Saturday in December (Dec. 3, for example) and set the repeat interval to "every 1 year", your task will repeat on the 3rd of December of each year. From there you can modify the due date of the next occurrence to be due on the 1st Saturday.

Thanks for letting us know you'd like to see this type of repeat interval.

Hi islipperyfish,
I was mistaken on this one! Try setting this up as a yearly repeating task using the following repeat interval:

every year on the 1st Saturday in December

Hope that helps!

Thanks Brendan

The repeat statement did exactly what I needed. It's still a little limiting having to define the initial due date explicitly rather than being able to use an expression but that is easy to work around.

Sometimes there are instances, where you may want to specify an action; say the third Friday of every month starting next month. Should I raise this expression requirement as a development item?

Thanks again

Hi islipperyfish,
Glad to hear that will work for you!

One option for creating a repeating task that doesn't start immediately is to leave the Due Date empty and let the repeating task calculate its own due date. For example, if you create a task with no due date that repeats "every month on the 3rd Friday", you could complete or delete this first occurrence. The next occurrence will automatically be generated with an appropriate due date. This would prevent you from having to define the due date explicitly at the time you create the task.

Hope that helps!

This was my exact question - I agree it's a little clunky - but glad it works! Thanks for the work-around :)