Repeating Events
Can I create repeating events?
Yes, you can make both multi-day events and repeating events.
Multi-Day Appointments
To create appointments that span more than one day, simply enter an end date for the event. For more information, see Event Duration.
Repeating Appointments
Click "repeating events" switch on the event pop-over and you’ll slide to a new panel for entering the details of the repeating event.
You can select from any number of repeating options; the options visible when you click “continue” will be used to create new repetitions of this event and you'll be returned to the event detail record where you can click "show repts as list" to review or edit your repetitions. Each repetition is its own, unique record in your calendar so you can edit them individually, adjusting dates or statuses as needed.
I can't seem to create repeating events past 2029, is there a limit?
Yes. To prevent the accidental creation of millions of records, the calendar's repeating events script has a both a date limit and a number-of-repetitions limit. You can change both of these but they default to a date limit of no repetitions past Jan 1 2030 and a limit of 500 repetitions per event.
Change these by altering the first two variables declared in the script "Build Repetition List ( Repeat_StartDate ; Repeat_Rule )"
How do repetitions work and how can I manipulate them?
Here are some details about how we handle repetitions...
Each repetition in the calendar is it's own event record. These records are all tied together with a shared event id in the field "SampleEvents::Repeating_id: the script "Show Repetitions ( ID )" performs a find on this field thus bringing all the repetitions of an event into the found set.
Once repetitions are created, the individual events can be edited, moved or deleted without effecting other events in the repetition.
