I support this and would use it a lot!

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Ben Nolte

This is a feature I wish I had right now.

1. I am posting a weekly event for the entire year, what a huge task.

2. I had already posted another event that was weekly and had to make a change, it would have been nice to just update a recurring event and all were changed.

With respect to a previous posting in this thread, we too need to be able to publish the Event calendar to a public Google Calendar for our organization (since some members only use a web based calendar like Google instead of iCal or Outlook).

I really need to figure this out but when trying to follow Fresh Apricots ideas in this posting:  http://community.wildapricot.com/thread/17177.aspx  I ran into problems...  Anybody else trying this? 

 

Well, it looks like its working but there is a delay on when the polling or push occurs.  Not sure how long.

Unfortunately it looks like it will put the event start date/time but not the through date/time.  Any ideas? 

Unfortunately this iCal update issue is a bug specific to Google Calendars iCal support. And although they are aware of it (see http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=7c6b4213a42e6923&fid=7c6b4213a42e69230004838d67fe6b29&hl=en ) it doesn't seem like their is any progress in fixing the bug or creating a feature that will allow users to manually request an updated feed (see http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi/browse_thread/thread/d223e9878465c45f?pli=1 )  .

Hopefully this is resolved soon - but until then we're all at the mercy of Google's update schedule for iCal feeds (2 hours to 7 days+) .

Thankfully the date/time issue is something we do have control over and is something we do plan to fix. Once it is fixed I will also update the RSS to iCal generator to properly read this event data.

 

 

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Frank | User Experience Designer
Wild Apricot

This sounds pretty good. The organization I'm managing the site for has a number of individual standing meetings each month each with their own frequency.

 But I don't think you will be able to handle all the use cases we present with the above ideas.

Our current frequency is:

A)  One time each month (the third monday of the month)

B)  Every other Wensday

C) The 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month (this should be able to be handled by 2 instances of A )

I think it's the "every other" that's the problem.

I like the ideas above that allow one to change the frequency and or the individual instance of the meeting's text as we can set up the standard meetings with dummy generic meeting text and when the actual topic is determined, we can paste that in over the dummy text. 

Other than the one frequency option, this looks like a fine useful new feature.

Any ideas when it can be scheduled?

 Until then, we have the unpleasant task of entering all these meetings individually by hand.

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

Paul, thanks for the input. 

This has not been scheduled yet so no specific timeline so far.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hi Dmitry - no pressure or anything (!) but any news yet on this feature? I guess you can tell we're all pretty keen!

 

@ Julip48 - sorry, no, we have not yet scheduled this into a specific release as our first two releases of the year turned out to be longer and more complicated than we expected. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Be great if there were a way to have weekly re-occorances like outlook for events, Starts from, ends to, On this day of the week.

 

 

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This looks like a very thorough description of the feature.

I have some events that occur twice a month - e.g. on the 2nd and the 4th Wednesday of each month.  It would be good if you could support this kind of recurrence.  Otherwise, we'll have to create 2 events - one for the 2nd Wed. of each month and one for the 4th Wed. of each month.

Thanks,

Mike

So it's been over a year since Recurring events appeared on the Roadmap... when can we expect to see it in the program?  We are a large volunteer organziation and having to enter recurring events over and over again is not a good use of our volunteers time.

 Please make this a priority!!!!!

I have entered 250 events & our Wild Apricot site isn't even "live" yet. Next year, when the site has been up & running for a while & we have tweaked it, we will probably have 300+ events during the year (our "year" is actually a season, running April-October). Many are recurring events:

1. Lessons are offered in sessions. Each session consists of 4 consecutive Monday evenings, 4 consecutive Tuesday evenings or 2 consecutive Saturdays. 
2. Camps run Monday-Friday.
3. One membership event occurs every Wednesday.
4. Another membership event occurs every other Sunday.
5. Yet another membership event occurs monthly on the day of the full moon.
   

So, as you can see, our recurrences are all over the place, from daily, weekly, bi-weekly to monthly. It would certainly save a lot of time to use some recurring event functionality.

We also need recurring events also. We have weekly events, that are painful to enter over and over.

This a a feature most calendar applications have. 

 

Thanks,

 

Mike 

How badly I need recurring events!  We have weekly support groups and ongoing events.  I have to put in each over and over again.  Please?

My organization provides dog training classes.  We have contacts registering for the event/class but the class runs for 6 weeks on 6 consecutive Tuesdays for example.  It would be incredibly helpful when creating the event to indicate that it repeats 6 times on Tuesdays, and that registration is for the event but the event consists of 6 sessions.  Currently, I can put that it starts on Feb 2 and ends on March 16 and it looks fine in the event list. BUT the calendar view looks like it is a continuous daily event.  The series of 6 Tuesdays would have 1 event in the event list, but 6 sessions on the calendar view.  Very helpful for our members to see an accurate calendar of classes.

 

We also have a regular meeting on the first Thursday of every month.  Yes, I can copy an event and list the details each month, but it would also be helpful to be able to state that the event repeats 12 times on the first Thursday of every month.  Registration in that case could be enabled to allow us to see how many folks might be attending.  So, the ability to create a regular recurring event would also be helpful.

As a first time user, I am quite frankly shocked that this feature is not available. This is an events management site after all! I was too far into our project implementation to go another route or I would not have chosen wildapricots. There are now years of testimonials and no one need to explain to you how a calendar works–we all have them. Please proceed with this most important feature.

I will not recommend WA or use it for other membership clients until this is complete. The lack of interface editing and website design customization along with this feature would have resulted in a different direction for our project. When is the next update due? Thanks for your work.

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Jan

Jan, I appreciate your feedback. As you can see in this forum we have over 400 various requests we are trying to balance out and while recurring events is an important one, it's not as common as many others - so we are not likely to get to it within 2011, sorry.

I would really appreciate if you could email me at support@wildapricot.com and elaborate what you mean re lack of interface editing and website customization.

The next update is planned for May - but the scope of what's there was finalized long time ago. Actually we are almost done with development so from now until then it will be all about testing.

See  http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Release+history

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hey,

The layout that was described for the recurring events sounds great. I am just wondering how high this is for implementation. Is it going to come out this year?

 

My organization would find great value in this.

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Cheers,

Ben

Ben, given all other stuff in the works right now, unfortunately I do not think we will get to this one in 2011, sorry. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Dmitry,

I have read all the comments. I know this is probably not an easy task. But looking at how long your customers have been asking to get this done, it should get included in one of this years updates.

Before our club made the move to WA, we were using a free online calendar that had the ability to do recurring events. It took me about 30 seconds to add an event occurring on every Sunday for the whole year.

 

The way I have to add these events on WA's calendar takes me forever.

 

Wim

I agree with Wim, recurring events is a basic basic basic calendar function. It did not even occur to me that you would not support it. We don't even bother to use your calendar features because it's too much trouble. What a waste! It would be a great feature to add to allow our members to view all the events they sign up for–we offer an annual program. Hope you reconsider this feature for 2011.

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Jan

Jan:

 I agree with you and Wim.  WA's event features are a weak area that are forcing my group to evaluate alternatives.  Recurring events and the ability to decline an event invitation are the 2 biggest issues for us. 

 I can't blame WA if the majority of their users don't care about event features. WA has some good features, but it seems like they are having trouble keeping up with user needs (at least this user's needs).

Mike

Our events are forcing us to look at alternate platforms. We may eventually go to Wordpress, but for now will probably use Google Calendar to at least have a calendar feature. I am also disappointed at WA's priorities.

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Jan

I would definitely use this feature (easily setting up recurring events) and the solution proposed seems logical and well thought out.

There is one additional element that I'd like to see added to this workflow, which is to allow the ability for certain recurring event reminders to be sent out to only select groups of members or contacts.

For example, our association holds monthly membership meeting/luncheons, so sending to all subscribed active members works great. But we also hold monthly board meetings. Rather than sending out the board meeting announcements/reminders to all members, it would be great to be able to (as part of the recurring event setup) select just the small group (Board Members or Board Officers or whatever other subgroups there might be) rather than overwhelming our membership with unnecessary and irrelevant communiqués.

Thank you for your consideration of this additional feature.