More flexible recurring events beyond weekly recurrence

[menagerie198]

Could we have the ability to set recurrence more finely. Currently I can only get weekly recurrence to work. Monthly would be great More fine grained recurrence - fortnightly, every third Tuesday, etc would be gravy.

[davish]

FullCalendar has support for rrule that we could adopt. The tricky part will be figuring out a good UI -- might be good to crib off of GCal for their advanced recurring options?

[menagerie198]

That would be great. MS Outlook on line is also very slick in this regard, slightly more intuitive than Gcal, I think.

[davish]

Could you share a screenshot? I haven't used outlook calendar too much before.

[menagerie198]

Sure...

[menagerie198]

[lumargh]

Slated in the Obsidian store has a great recurrence UI and functionality. I'll agree with the majority that an expanded recurrence functionality in Full Cal would be great.

[SirSceptalot]

Looking for this as well.
Using Obsidian for IT documentation, and many recurring tasks such as data integrity checks, backup etc. have multi-week or multi-month periods.

[drannex42]

Here is some more UI inspiration, coming from Thunderbird.

Simpler for most common usage:

More complex custom usage, this is probably not a priority for some time of course.

[drannex42]

My current workaround is to set all non-weekly recurring events (for IT work, bills, etc) as a private ics calendar in Zoho Calendar (or any other calendar service). This then let's it show up on the FC calendar (close the calendar tab and reopen on first load).

[Jethril]

I would suggest the Linux crontab syntax to give the users a chance to input a rule that would not be available in the UI. It could also be used to save (serialize) the rule to a text file.

[davish]

Wow, @Jethril that is a great idea :)

[FiniTea]

Is there any update on this, is a feature like this on the roadmap? Yearly recurring intervals would be really useful!

[Jethril]

I would like to give it a try, but I must learn how the plugins are made (seems very simple).

[reddwest]

I don't currently have any suggestions but I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure out a workaround to do yearly events like birthdays, and would definitely appreciate further options/flexibility for this

[fatherofinvention]

Only thing I can think of is to offload the missing functionality to a user created script (if you know how to write Python, JS, PowerShell, etc.) using other plugins like QuickAdd and/or Shell Commands. Your script would generate the markdown files with the appropriate frontmatter which would then be usable by the FullCalendar plugin.

[Cruxial0]

If the UI is still up for discussion, would something like this be adequate?

[bskeen]

Hey everyone, I just added a PR for a first attempt at this functionality: #500
Please take a look and let me know what you think. I am definitely open to adjusting the UI/logic/supported recurrence types if needed.

Here are some screenshots:

[manveldavid]

Can you give an example of a flexible recurring event please? What syntax should I use? Nothing about this in the documentation or on YouTube...

[manveldavid]

add some .md file please

[manveldavid]

Omg, I found something in sources
example.md

---
type: rrule
allDay: false
startDate: 2022-03-01
endTime: 12:30
startTime: 11:00
rrule: FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=SU,MO,TU,WE,TH,FR,SA;INTERVAL=2
skipDates: []
title: Hello world!
---

[mjluser1]

I just started using the calendar this week and love it---except for my annual, bimonthly, monthly, and biweekly events. Thanks for working on this!!

[mjluser1]

@fatherofinvention Is there a way to get the calendar to show the events if the markdown files are created for the events? I just duplicated a file and changed the dates, but I do not know how to get the calendar to see it.

[manveldavid]

Open your note in source mode (</> icon), then check 'skipDates: []'