Enhancement to Calendar recurring event functionality

[Arizona_Chameleon]

Request an enhancement to the calendar to be able to set the recurrence of an event by day of the week (e.g. 1st Saturday of each month).

This is a basic functionality available on phone calendars, and it would be great to have this functionality on our Forum calendar. 

Reasoning:

We have several recurring events that we are having trouble managing because the calendar "repeat" function just goes by days/weeks/months (e.g. repeat in 4 weeks).

This doesn't work for our Forum because many of our events simply recur on the same day in sequence each month e.g. "First Saturday of the Month."  We use "repeat in 4 weeks" but as soon as we have a month with 5 of the given day (for example, January 2022 has 5 Saturdays) the timing is screwed up.  The next recurrence of a First Saturday event is now on the Last Saturday of January instead of the First Saturday in February, and every recurrence after that is incorrect also.  This is confusing to our members, and anyone looking ahead to a specific month sees incorrect information.  We get complaints from our members about the calendar being incorrect.  

To work around this, we have to wait until the event has passed, and then manually update the event.  This is annoying and also causes us to lose the history of how long an event has actually been running, because to work around the repeat issue we must update the start date. 

 

Edited January 7, 2022 by Arizona_Chameleon
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[Chad Runyon]

This is clearly needed since so many recurring calendar items are, for example, "third Saturday of every month".

Is there anyone on the Invision team that can put this into a feature tracker?

[UncrownedGuard]

I actually thought this was a bug here:

So adding my support to get this feature added to the calendar.  Seems like a super basic calendar feature to have anymore.

[GazzaGarratt]

Whilst I like this idea, if IPS take it forward I would hope it would take into account how people RSVP. Currently I don't use recurring events because RSVP is connected through the whole series whereas most event functions elsewhere allow the user to RSVP to individual occurences which is far more common sense e.g. if you can only make 3 out of the 5 event occurences.

If recurring events do get looked at in general, the RSS feed would also need to be updated as once someone makes an indefinite recurring event (even if by mistake), then the feed will show forever that recurrence on whatever device you have.

Feels like a general review of recurring events would help to include the OP suggestion and things I have mentioned if others agree?