More flexible event repeat options

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Original comment from Diana Kilby transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

Also, in the repeat function, add ‘exclude’ dates, as for instance we have weekly events, but not during school holidays/half terms. This would be really appreciated.

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Original comment from Emma Burns transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

I’ll also add the need to end recurring events! We have a weekly event that will only run for a couple months.

[Helga]

Hello folks,

Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas!

We do appreciate your involvement and for your help, we’ll definitely take into consideration all your suggestions.

Thank you!

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Original comment from Ben Boutwell transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

@Helga - here’s a solution to get some ideas off of what Elfsight’s calendar could look like: https://tockify.com/

[Helga]

Hi Ben,

A huge thank you for sharing the link! I’m sure we’ll find it really helpful

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Original comment from Jenna Wang transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

It will also be nice to set exceptions for weekly recurring events. For example, no lessons during school holidays, etc.

[Helga]

Hi Jenna,

Thanks a lot for supporting this idea, we’ll try to consider this option and add it to the widget.

Thank you for your help!

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Original comment from Erik Osterman transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

We run weekly “office hours” (aka webinars) and need the repeat functionality before we can purchase.

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Original comment from Ryan Panaro transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

Yes, please please add recurring until dates and exceptions!

Thanks!

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Original comment from Pam Knight transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

I would wholeheartedly agree - we need a calendar tha does monthly as well as the current options - also if they could expire after the date has passed that would be amazing

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Original comment from Sue Laidlaw transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

I would like to see an end date for any repeat events. For example I want to add an event for 3 months only.

Maybe even the option to repeat on the 1st (or any other day) of the month.

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Original comment from Shannon transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

Yes, please allow more options with recurring events but especially allow them to display past 30 days. Right now I have an event that repeats weekdays but it won’t show on the calendar past 30 days. I need our clients to see that when viewing future months down the road.

[Helga]

Hello folks,

Thank you so much for your comments and suggestions!

I totally understand your point and I’m really sorry that we haven’t improved the Repeat option yet.

I’ve let our dev team know that this request is highly popular and I do believe they will be able to make the Repeat option more powerful and useful.

Thanks a lot for your patience!

Helga, Community Manager

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Original comment from Ingrid Kalchthaler transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

wow! I seriously can’t believe it! I am so thankful! I love elfsight but we have so many events that repeat “from this date UNTIL this date” and it takes forever to add every date manually. We are just getting ready to do next year’s calendar and we were thinking about trying a new platform but elfsight has so many advantages I was hoping we could stick with it. Just knowing this might in the works is so helpful! I can pass this on! Thank you for listening!!

[Helga]

Dear Ingrid,

Thank you ever so much for such a warm comment and kind words!

I wish we could cover the feature requests much faster, however, everything depends on our devs’ overall load. But we take every effort to release the most wanted options

Thank you so much for your understanding!

Helga, Community Manager

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Original comment from Jen F transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

Is it possible to put in an event that repeats every year?

[Helga]

Hi Jen,

Thanks for your comment!

Our devs have access to this space and all the threads, and I do believe they will consider adding a yearly repeat option as well

Thanks a lot for helping us by sharing your ideas!

Helga, Community Manager

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Original comment from Ryan Panaro transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

‘Repeat until’ date is a make-or-break feature for the Event Calendar, please do what you can to push this!

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Original comment transferred from the previous Wishlist portal:

Any date set on when this feature might be available? We’ll need to find another solution if it’s not going to happen soon. Love the calendar… but this is a showstopper for us. We publish dozens of new events each week and can’t continue to try to find hacks around this. Thank you!

[Helga]

Dear guys,

Thank you all for your involvement and for your comments!

We see how needed and wanted this and other features for Event Calendar are, and we do thank you for your interest

We on our end also see a huge potential in this widget and we definitely plan to pay special attention to it.

Much as we’d love to set the wheels in motion right away, unfortunately, we have to admit that at the moment we don’t have enough resources and opportunities to dedicate the needed amount of time to this task.

But worry not, we’re in the process of allocating duties for this task and we do believe we’ll be able to have first results in the second quarter.

Thank you so much for your understanding and for sticking with us!

Helga, Community Manager

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