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Recurring events

A daily habit, a Friday standup, the second Tuesday of every month: set the pattern once and KashCal fills in every occurrence.

Set up a repeat​

In the event form, tap the repeat row. On a new event it reads Does not repeat. Pick one of the choices:

  • Never, Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly.
  • Custom, for any interval. Set Repeat every from 1 to 99, then pick Day, Week, Month or Year. Every two weeks is Custom, 2, Week.

For Weekly (or a custom interval in weeks), pick the days under On days.

For Monthly (or a custom interval in months), pick a Pattern:

  • "On day" and a number, such as the 15th.
  • On last day of month.
  • A weekday position, such as "On the 2nd Tuesday". Under Which, pick 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or last. Under Weekday, pick the day. "Last" covers a meeting on the last Friday, whether that's the 4th or 5th Friday of the month.

Under Ends, choose when the repeat stops:

  • Never repeats with no end.
  • On date stops after a date you pick.
  • After a number of occurrences stops after that many.

You can also type a repeating event with Smart event add, such as "Standup every weekday at 9am".

Change or delete one occurrence or the whole series​

When you save a change to a repeating event, delete one, or drag one to a new time, KashCal asks which occurrences it applies to. The sheet is titled Save changes to, Delete or Move, and offers:

  • This event: only the occurrence you opened.
  • This and all future: this occurrence and every later one.
  • All events: the whole series. On Delete it's shown in red.

So you can move this week's meeting and leave the rest alone, or change the time of every future meeting at once.

A choice that doesn't apply stays on the sheet, greyed out:

  • On the first occurrence, This and all future is greyed out, because it would mean the same as All events.
  • On an occurrence you've already changed on its own, only This event is available.
  • If you changed the repeat rule, This event is greyed out, because a single occurrence can't carry a rule. All events is also greyed out unless you're editing the first occurrence. To change the pattern from a later occurrence onward, use This and all future.

When you drag an occurrence of an event from a device calendar, the Move sheet leaves out All events.

How a single-occurrence change is stored

When you change one occurrence of a repeating event, KashCal stores it as an exception linked to the series. The rest of the series stays as it was and keeps syncing.

The change stays a single change. KashCal sends it to your server as a change to that one occurrence, tagged with the date and time of the occurrence it replaces. It doesn't turn into a duplicate or a separate event on the next sync.

The reverse works too. If you delete that changed occurrence from another app or device, the next sync removes KashCal's copy, once the server marks the occurrence as excluded from the series.