# Request: Easy way to schedule a break for multiple goals simultaneously

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/request-easy-way-to-schedule-a-break-for-multiple-goals-simultaneously/4953>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/request-easy-way-to-schedule-a-break-for-multiple-goals-simultaneously/4953 "2019-02-14T13:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/request-easy-way-to-schedule-a-break-for-multiple-goals-simultaneously/4953/9 "2019-02-14T20:16:59Z")

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> [@drtall](#):
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> You derail when you’re in the red relative to the width as it is today

You derail when you were in the red yesterday and are in the red today. See

> [@Mother of Bugs: Two Consecutive Days In The Red](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mother-of-bugs-two-consecutive-days-in-the-red/4250/):
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> Currently, as I understand it, Beeminder has a patch to fix some problems, and this patch makes it so that the derail condition is something like: IF you were in the red at your last deadline, and IF you will be in the red at the next deadline if no additional data points are entered, THEN derail. This is, of course, a counterintuitive derail condition that will often cause derails when it shouldn’t. Because of this problematic derail condition, numerous other patches were introduced to fix…

> [@drtall](#):
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> The road width on Beeminder goals is dynamically calculated based on a number of factors such as its current road slope. So when the slope of your road changes, the width changes

My understanding is that this has changed and the colors are now based on number of days since derailment - it would be helpful if @dreev or @bee could confirm!

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