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Recurring meeting with no fixed time

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 12, 2023
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Hello,

I want to set up a recurring meeting with no fixed time, as I have done multiple times before. But the option seems to have disappeared, I can only choose recurring daily, weekly or monthly. I contacted support, but got no reply. Does someone in this forum have a tip for me how to fix this?

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Best answer by CarlaA

Hi @mtraninger , thank you for your contribution to the Zoom Community!

At this time, we are no longer offering the option to schedule "No Fixed Time" recurring meetings using the Zoom client as it was causing inconsistencies in performance. Please use the web portal, Gmail, or Outlook to schedule this type of meeting 🙂

Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused!

Carla,
Zoom Community Team

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mtraningerAuthor

Newcomer

Update: I just found a workaround by scheduling on the website https://zoom.us/meeting/schedule. In the windows app the option is missing. Obviously it is a bug on the windows app.

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Jake_Stevens

Newcomer

Thanks for that workaround! Unbelievable that Zoom has just decided to shut down this key feature on the app

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rosielou

Newcomer

I totally agree, its very annoying.

CarlaAAnswer

Community Manager

Hi @mtraninger , thank you for your contribution to the Zoom Community!

At this time, we are no longer offering the option to schedule "No Fixed Time" recurring meetings using the Zoom client as it was causing inconsistencies in performance. Please use the web portal, Gmail, or Outlook to schedule this type of meeting 🙂

Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused!

Carla,
Zoom Community Team

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richardtejedo

Newcomer

Please reinstate this option. I used it to schedule my meetings and now I can't schedule meetings as before. The option has also been removed on the web portal.

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Paulgiancarlo

Newcomer

Ever since the January change in the app, there are many more problems. Besides not being able to schedule recurring meetings, I am no longer getting an email letting me know that my client is in the waiting room. I’m not sure why you changed all this, but I don’t think it was a change for the good. Please go back to what worked well, thank you

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QueenEleanor

Newcomer

same issue - why no 'no fixed time' option? Now it lists a year's worth of meetings before my reoccuring meetings and i have to scroll and scroll to find them.

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saurin

Newcomer

Very valuable option to have. A related question: If I go to zoom web portal and schedule one no-fixed-time meeting, then I should just use the same meeting ID and code for all other - future - occurences? i.e. because it was flagged no-fixed-time, it will work for any other future times as well? Thank you!

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haroldwi

Newcomer

When you create it in the web site, it WILL drop into the desktop app (but don't try to modify it there, it will break)

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Frank_TB

Community Champion | Customer

Hello,

The setting is available on the Zoom portal the way CarlaA has described

Regards

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Teen-1

Newcomer

Frank,

When I go to Zoom.com and then click on meeting , the option for no fixed time does not show up. What am I doing wrong?

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Sunnybuck

Newcomer

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JustinMcLeod

Newcomer

I have the same question - thanks for asking it.

I was just in the middle of trying to set up the "standard" recurring meeting with no "fixed time" and it seems to now want us to pick exact ranges similar to the major calendars out there?

If I can add a question to your one it would be:

- If I set up a room link for Monday at 7pm and send it to my student can we suddenly change to say 5pm and use the same link?

Ray_Harwood

Community Super Champion | Customer

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @JustinMcLeod.

Once you’ve set up a series of recurring meetings, you can edit the individual occurrences, including changing the time and/or date. Changing an individual occurrence does not affect the other occurrences.

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haroldwi

Newcomer

Using Zoom for recurring meetings is a total pain. I no longer use Zoom for recurring meetings due to this. WHAT I HAVE DONE is create a number of fixed meetings using the "no fixed time" option of the browser access (since the app does not work properly except to display what you've created). Everyone should move away from the app and use only browser based meeting creation. The meetings I set up are all generic in nature and can be re-used across multiple projects (as they have only names like "Recurring Project Call" or "Internal Company Call" .. etc...). There are other better options "out there" for meetings but my company has chosen Zoom 'cuz it's cheap.

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tedlandau

Newcomer

The problem my wife was having with her free account not being able to set or open recurring meetings (even from the web portal) appears to have been fixed in the latest update to the Zoom app (and portal?). They have redesigned the app's interface (The Home tab is gone; there is now just a Meetings tab that combines Home and Meetings into one window). And it now lists previously created No Fixed Time recurring meetings. Still have to go to the web portal to create new ones (which now works!)...but that's a more general problem reported by pretty much everyone in this thread.

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elvisize

Newcomer

Can't imagine a reason that's good enough for removing this key functionality. I can't even call it a "feature" as it's so integral. PLEASE bring it back.

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jeff-ondich

Newcomer

@CarlaA -- Could you explain why this change was made?

I'm a software developer and I understand that sometimes app features really need to go for various reasons. But as a customer, I find this one a baffling change that makes it significantly harder for me to use Zoom day-to-day. I would be a happier customer if I knew the reason why.

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