We include some events on our calendar that happen every year such as heritage months, e.g. March 1 Women’s History Month Begins. We don’t want to have to recreate these events every year, so we set them up as annual repeating events. Since repeating events require an end date, we randomly chose 5 occurrences - but then the daily, weekly or monthly calendar view it lists the event time as “All Day Yearly (on 5 dates from Mar 1)” - see CMU Events Calendar - although when you click into the WHM event it just says All Day Repeats Yearly - see Women’s History Month Begins / CMU Events Calendar.
I guess I’m wondering if there is a way to handle “forever” annual events like these so we don’t have to choose a random end date that appears on the calendar - while not breaking LiveWhale because it tries to generate an infinite number of occurrences, and while retaining the ability for an end date to appear for fixed-term repeating events, e.g. Repeats weekly until March 30. We do not use Today Facts so putting them there is not an option for us. Any suggestions?
This would be a great feature. For these types of events, we currently just enter them as single occurrences. It’s pretty easy to duplicate an event and just change the year, so we can create multiple quickly enough.
Thanks @jwilcox - yes duplicating an individual event is an option we considered, and could switch to, but it would be nice if there was a way to use the repeating event feature (either now or in a future release) just to save that step for heritage months and holidays that are on the same date each year (e.g. Christmas, Juneteenth, July 4).
Hi guys! This is a great idea, and I want you to know that Karl and I are discussing it in our product development conversations right now. It may not be something we roll out with 3.0 (which is just around the corner!) but we get the need, and we’ll definitely keep it in mind.