Creating repeated events?

you should use the date_repeat component that ships with the date module. It however has some flaws that prevent it from saving to the database correctly, but work on that issue is in progress at the moment...

Hello, I am also trying to use the date_repeat component on my site but I'm feeling a little lost on how to create a calendar event - without using the event module's eventrepeat. When using CCK is there a specific procedure to adding a repeat field with calendar repeat API? This would be important for the site.
Thanks in advance!

The calendar module does not create events, you use CCK and the Date module to create events. The calendar is to display them in a calendar. And the Date Repeat module that will create repeating dates is only in the 5.2 and 6.2 versions. The 5.2 version is working fairly well (although I'm still doing some debugging). It's the 6.2 version that is still fairly buggy.

Thanks Karen!
Trying 5.2 now on my staging site. Looks good! I'm afraid I've filed a heap of bugs though...

Hi Karen-

I'm a bit confused. I want to add a CCK field to allow me to specify an event as a repeated date (ie. every tuesday for 4 months, etc...). You mention a Date Repeat module in your http://drupal.org/node/269710#comment-891859 comment, but I am unable to find this module. With my 6.x-2.0-beta3 Date plugin, I see 'Date Repeat API', but no support for a CCK field for adding recurring dates. Am I missing something?

Have a look in the CCK module category section. You should find the date CCK component there ;)

Hi gvdvenis-

Thank you for the follow-up, though I am still a bit confused. The '6.x-2.0-beta3 Date plugin' plugin I mentioned that I have installed on my Drupal 6.2 install is the very 'Date' CCK module you mention, which I downloaded from the CCK module category at http://drupal.org/project/date

With this installed, under `/admin/build/modules` there is no reference to a date field module or date_repeat within the CCK group. Also, under the Date group on this page I have everything enabled with the exception of Date PHP4 since I'm running PHP 5.2.x

Have I missed installing something still? Are you referring to a different date module than http://drupal.org/project/date ?

Under 'Field type' when adding a CCK field at admin/content/node-type/calendar-event/add_field field I see relevant
- date
- datestamp
- datetime
- duration

None of which I can see provide functionality for some type of recurrence. What am I missing?

Thanks for your patience and help.

The 'duration' you see there is coming from some other module, the 'date', 'datestamp', and 'datetime' are all from the Date module. Select any one of them and on the next screen will be more settings. One of those settings, way down at the bottom of the screen, is an option to make the date a repeating date.

And this support request is for version 5.1, so it's pretty confusing to have someone jump in an ask about version 6.2, you would be better off opening a new issue if you're discussing a completely different version, since the answers will often be different.

Thank you for the clarification. I apologize for the confusion I have caused you over having a different version of Drupal installed.

That's OK, and the confusion is also for you and for anyone else reading it, because the answers to the questions in this issue are different for different versions -- the module list looks different in 5.1 than in 5.2 and there are different options available, etc etc.

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