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Scheduling a meeting for quarter past or quarter to the hour (ie 10:15 or 10:45)

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My account won't seem to let me schedule a meeting for times that are quarter past or quarter till the hour (like 10:15 or 10:45) but forces me to select the top of the hour or half past (10 or 10:30). Is there a setting to change this?

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nikbrg

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You can easily get around this problem! Select "Recurring meeting", then "No fixed times" in the box "Recurrence". Through this, you don´t need to set a specific time. If you also disable "Continous Meeting Chat" you can keep using the setting for all kinds of meetings for as long as you want to. For example, I have one meeting called "Board Meetings" for the association I am part of, and 7-8 other categories. I seldom need to make a new setting.

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mt104

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If you have it linked to your Outlook Calendar, you can edit it there for different increments e.g. 3:45 and it will updated in the Zoom desktop client and web portal.

Confirmed as of 3/1/24

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ZakRulz

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Two years after OP first asked I see this is still an issue for Zoom. I figured out after you type in the time, example 12:15, you have to click on the time you typed in the drop down menu for Zoom to accept it.

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cksteiner

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Yes! This! I would have never thought of (or even noticed) that. When you manually type in your time, a drop down appears that has only the time you typed in it. Select that, and you're all set. This is so ridiculous that we have to do this. We should be able to set the start time to the MINUTE if we wanted to.

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bocpoc24

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Also. As I have learned. It’s important to use a colon as a period (full stop) doesn’t work.

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efl

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Once you have typed in 06:45, for example, 06:45 will appear just below where you have typed it in the box. Select that and click enter.

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phb

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This is insane. Sometimes I can make it work as suggested, and sometimes I can't. Why Zoom would make this so effing difficult is beyond me.

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bocpoc24

Newcomer

I agree phb why is this so hard ??

I've been trying to schedule a meeting for 3.45 for an hour - watching videos and googling like crazy and nothing is working -I got in to account management and settings and 15 mins increments has a padlock next to it i cant remove - i am so frustrated.

I want a 15 minute break in between meetings but zoom wont let me WHY ????

please someone at zoom help !

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MGSR

Community Manager

Hello Community Members,

You can schedule a meeting with a custom time using your desktop app.

Click on the time selection and input the desired time and make sure to use a colon to separate the hour and minutes(e.g., 6:12). Press Enter to confirm and lock in the time.
You can refer to the video below:

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phb

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Thanks for the reply, Mark. I sincerely appreciate it despite my frustration with this (still) obtuse approach to page navigation.

In the two-plus months that have elapsed since I posted my note, I have indeed discovered that by typing a custom time like "11:15," and hitting RETURN, I can make it work. But if I type "11:15" and then hit TAB, the time defaults to the half-hour.

Related: Once I get the page to acknowledge the time I want a meeting to start, and then tab to the AM/PM field, I can't type an "A" or a "P" to select the option I want. Instead, I either have to use the down arrow to select from a list of (just two) options, or I have to use the mouse.

EVERY other website that I'm familiar with — thousands of them — allows moving from one field to another via the TAB key, and selection of an option from a popup menu by typing the first letter of the desired option. And guess what? If I select "AM" or "PM," and then hit tab, it preserves my choice and moves to the next field. So one of the (three) options here behaves as users expect, but the other two don't, and they're inconsistent.

So, yeah, it can be forced to work, but the default is that that page behaves differently from the way users expect. I'm an experienced and capable technology user, and it took me months to figure that out. It's a poor UI and UX, and it should be fixed.

Also, two months to answer a customer service request (again, nothing personal) is a tad much, yes?

Sorry to drone on... tempest in a teacup and all that. Thanks for hearing me out. I know I'm just one guy, but when I design things, I don't want users to be frustrated by things that are — let's be honest — frustrating to any reasonable person.

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