How can I prevent expired entries from showing up in Watchtower? (While keeping the expiry date)

XIII

Watchtower lists a few entries (membership cards) that are indeed expired. Unfortunately the organizations behind them are sloppy/cheap/... and decided to still honor the expired passes instead of distributing new ones...

How can I prevent them from showing up in Watchtower, while keeping the expiry date?

(I could put the date in a note, but is there a nicer way?)

Ben

Hi @XIII

I’m not aware of a nicer way at this point. Sorry about that. Hopefully we can continue to iterate on Watchtower and in the future can account for such possibilities.

Ben

sjk

(I could put the date in a note, but is there a nicer way?)

I use custom fields (with a Date or Month/Year type) for this sort of thing. :)

XIII

I use custom fields (with a Date or Month/Year type) for this sort of thing. :)

Of course! Should have come up with that myself...

Cleared the date in the (default) “Expiry” field and put it in a custom (date) field “Expired”. Still have all the info, but no “false positive” in Watchtower.

Problem solved. Thanks!

AGAlumB

sjk comes up with a lot of stuff that has me saying the same thing I both love and hate him. :tongue:

mariozaizar

I was looking for this, thanks!

Ben

Great! :+1:

Ben

TSzabo

While the workaround @sjk suggested is good at the moment I wouldn't mind something a bit more akin to the 2FA warning where assigning an "Expired" tag (or something similar) will suppress the warning. That way I can separate things that I know are "expired" or "replaced" from things that Watchtower should be alerting me about.

Ben

Thanks for the feedback @TSzabo. Admittedly the 'tag' method is looked at internally as a bit of a hack, and something to be avoided, but perhaps we can find a better solution.

Ben