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admiral70

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Hello all,
Is there a way to enable or disable a task or profile for 15 minutes? My issue I have a work profile Monday through Thursday and occasionally I work Friday's and want to enable my work profile for 4 hours and than have it turn off and go back to enable.

I thought there use to be a long click enable for x minutes.

Thoughts are appreciated.
 
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I am a little confused by your question. 15 min? Enable for 4 hours and then go back to enable?

A long press is not a good idea. Many launchers (like Nova Launcher) use the long press. It is better to have a Widget or Kid that you tap to toggle a profile using the action Profile Status action. Like ...

DevA (268)
A1: Profile Status [ Name:tlaProx Set:Toggle ]

... Thom
 
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Little cryptic sorry. I need a way to quickly enable a task for some length of time. After that length of time go back to the Profile that should be enabled.

I use timeframe for my profiles. Work Turns on Mon-Thu 7 am to 5 pm. Once in awhile I work on Friday and was hoping to enable Work profile/task for 4 hours and have it kick back to whatever profile it should be (i.e. normal).

Hope that makes more sense. Thank you.
 
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Use two profiles. They could use the same Enter and Exit Tasks.

One profile is Mon-Thu and the other is Fri. The Fri profile could also have an added task that was a widget on the desktop that you could toggle on/off. If your 4 hours one Friday was 6 hours you would have it covered. Perhaps there is another trigger that could be used like nearness to a specific WiFi network to toggle the Fri profile when it was enabled.

... Thom
 
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