More flexible event repeat options

As this was critical to how we run our business, we have now subscribed to another app instead, I preferred your app but needed the functionality. Maybe we can swap back if you add the feature where we can do alternating events. If not, no worries.

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@user2999 I totally understand your reasons, and Iā€™m so very sorry that we havenā€™t rolled out this feature yet :frowning:

I know that the devs are on the verge of releasing it, and I believe Iā€™ll share great news very soon :pray:t2:

Any update on when this feature will be released?

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@LifeBridge weā€™re really sorry that we havenā€™t met the deadline, but weā€™re doing everything possible to release this option next week :slight_smile:

Thank you for your interest and welcome to the Elfsight community!

I operate 25 weekly events, which is awesomeā€¦ UNTIL one of them cancels for a single week. I canā€™t simply cancel that one specific event in your system, I have to cancel the whole thing and create a new event to begin the next week.

Also, some of our events have gone to twice monthly. The 1st and 3 Fridays, the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, etc. To do this with your calendar is impossible OTHER THAN creating 24 individual events to cover the coming year.

PLEASE! We need more flexibility.

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Totally understand you, @John_Mixon, thank you for sharing your use case and thoughts!

Iā€™m happy to say that this is the functionality our devs are working now, and we expect to have it released any day soon, Iā€™ll keep you updated here :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot for your help and welcome to the Elfsight community! :tada:

Dear friends, Iā€™m ecstatic to finally close this request! :tada: :clap:t2:

You now have a much more flexible set of options for your repeated events!

Feel free to check it out on your widgetā€™s Content tab ā†’ choose the event ā†’ Repeat ā†’ Custom:

Make sure to test it out and leave your feedback, weā€™ll be happy to hear from you!

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Thank you!!!

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@Helga - This is great to see !!! Just a quick question ā€“ Does the calendar show events beyond 30 days now too (and if so, is there a limit)?

One last thing - is there way to ā€œdeleteā€ an event in a series. For example, we have office hours every week on a certain day, but sometimes it gets canceled, is there a way to take out one instance?

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Agreed, sometimes venues and dates change

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@Matthew7 @user2776 my apologies for such a long reply!

Iā€™m happy that you love the update, I really hope it will help you in your projects! :slight_smile:

As for your questions, Iā€™m afraid weā€™re still working on extending the period for the repeated events, you can vote and subscribe for this request here: Allow repeated events display beyond a month

Iā€™m afraid there is no option to delete a separate event in a series either, but we also have such a request, feel free to vote for it: Set exceptions to the repetition

Thanks a lot for your comments and support, weā€™ll keep working on delivering new cool features!

Adding a little more detail here from what I added last time: It would be great if the event widget would allow us to edit an event in a series - sometimes, venue and times change. for example if June 17 is fine but thereā€™s no session the following week, but it resumes on the 31.

Also, the custom feature isnā€™t allowing me to set an event for say Mon-Fri on a specific week. It appears when you first make an event but as soon as you click ā€œcustomā€, it disappears from the calendar and when you set an end date, it doesnā€™t actually appear on the calendar.

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Hello @user2776 :wave:

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!

Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no option to set exception for the repetitions. I am really sorry about it :pensive:

You can vote for this feature to keep on top of all the updates.

As for the custom feature issue, Iā€™ve checked your widget and it seems to be working fine now.

If the issue still persists on your side, could you please send me a screenshot or a video screencast of the issue, it would be tremendously helpful!

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