# New goal road dial
**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-goal-road-dial/2475
**Category:** Bugabee
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-goal-road-dial/2475 "2016-09-01T17:16:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-goal-road-dial/2475/1 "2016-09-01T17:16:32Z")
It drives me batty that the New Goal screen is neither the real road dial nor easy to skip when you want to get to real road dial. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve cursed at
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/03d1geqp4s3o5pl/Screenshot%202016-09-01%2010.14.09.png?dl=0)
I’d have about 50 bucks. 😱
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### Author:  [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-goal-road-dial/2475/2 "2016-09-01T17:18:03Z")
Also this!!!
[ ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9isfxwq4gllt686/Screenshot%202016-09-01%2010.17.50.png?dl=0)
(but I feel like I complained about this somewhere else…)
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### Author:  [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-goal-road-dial/2475/3 "2016-09-01T17:28:03Z")
I won’t start a new topic, but here’s a brief summary of what it takes to make an infrequently triggering cron-job style goal these days:
1. Click “New Goal” ([https://www.beeminder.com/new](https://www.beeminder.com/new))
2. Click “Next”
3. Type goalname.
4. Retype goalname with underscores.
5. Look for “yearly” in “Commit to per” dropdown.
6. Type 0 in “Commit to” box.
7. Retype 0.1 in “Commit to” box.
8. Type units into “Commit to” box.
9. Select pledge cap.
10. Type a number (e.g. 90) in “Start with” box.
11. Retype 0 in “Start with” box.
12. Click “Pledge $5”
13. Click “Update”
14. Click settings
15. Retype goalname with spaces/capital letters/hyphens
16. Change rate units to yearly.
17. (Optional: Change pledge cap to 2430).
18. Click “Save Changes”
19. Type the yearly rate you wanted into road dial.
20. Click “Dial-it-in”
21. Type “1” into data entry and hit “Submit”.
22. Click “Retoratchet” tab
23. Type the number of days you want until derail
24. Click “Retroratchet” button
25. Wait up to 24 hours to get the “Reminding you about $GOALNAME” email so your goal will [become integery](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/zapier-recipe-to-automatically-integery-ize-new-goals/1296).
26. Now your goal is up and running.
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### Author:  [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2017, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-goal-road-dial/2475/4 "2017-02-22T06:05:42Z")
Very grateful to @drtall for careful documentation of suckiness! This was shortly before the redesign so if you’re up for updating this…
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### Author:  [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-goal-road-dial/2475/5 "2019-01-07T23:44:21Z")
Sure!
1. Click “New Goal” ([https://www.beeminder.com/new](https://www.beeminder.com/new))
2. Figure out that the grey plus button is “Next” and click it.
3. Click the same grey plus button again (it means “Do More” this time)
4. Select “per year” in dropdown
5. Type the yearly rate you want.
6. Type units you want.
7. Click “Continue”
8. Enter slug
9. Click “Continue”
10. Click “Finish”
11. Click “Go To Goal”
12. Wait up to 24 hours to get the “Reminding you about $GOALNAME” email so your goal will [become integery](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/zapier-recipe-to-automatically-integery-ize-new-goals/1296).
13. Now your goal is up and running.
So that’s definitely an improvement!
Perhaps off topic but the re-design introduced a lot of inconsistencies with the naming of Goal slugs and titles. The API defines the terms `slug` and `title` which the old UI also exposes and I have always presumed to be canonical. The new UI refers to the `slug` as “a short goal name” and also as “goalname” (no space). It refers to the `title` as “description” which is particularly unfortunate because the only place “description” appears in the API documentation is as a definition of `fineprint`.