calendar export for recurring events

[Maximilian]

hey,

so i created a recurring event. now i want to export the whole event series to ical or google cal, but it only exports one single events of the series.

how can i export the whole event series?

[Brook]

Howdy Maxmillian,

Welcome to the forums! I would love to help you with this.

There is no currently existing way to export solely a single events series. You could either export more data than you need, and trim out anything you don’t want during or after import. Or, you could do multiple exports to get all of that data.

iCal’s support for recurring events is quite limited, it does not support all of the recurrence patterns our calendar does. So it is not part of the data included in our exports, instead we are forced to export them as single events.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Maximilian]

Hey Brook,

i guess your second reply was not meant for me.

I use the recurring event for like training schedule for my team. so for example kids have practice every wednesday at 7. if they had to export every single event in the series it would not be helpful for them.

I guess i have to write an information text that they manually make the export event an recurring event in their calendar.

[Brook]

Sorry about the second reply! I am not sure how it found it’s way in here. I must come back to the wrong tab.

I use the recurring event for like training schedule for my team. so for example kids have practice every wednesday at 7. if they had to export every single event in the series it would not be helpful for them.

Ahh that makes sense. If we were to add a series export in the future, would you be happy with it if it create a bunch of single/duplicate events on your other calendar? The biggest drawback I can see here is that if you want to trash the event you would have to hunt down each instance in the other calendar and trash them all, since they will not be a true recurring event.

As I said there is some difficulty here in trying to export our recurring events to iCal. So I am not sure any solution we could come up with would actually meet the needs of folks like you. 🙁

• Brook

[Maximilian]

hey brook,

you have a snippet in another thread regarding recurring events and ical export. it seems to work well.

now th ebig question. whats about google calendar 😀

kind regards and thanks for your support,

max

[Brook]

Howdy Max,

Hey I am happy that snippet helps!

Google Calendar unfortunately will continue to be limited to a single event for now. The API we use to add events can only export a single event at a time. 🙁

It’s my pleasure Max. Please let me know if that answers your questions, or if you have any more. Cheers!

– Brook

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