Questions tagged [recurring-events]

code that is executed in consecutive cycles such as every frame of a graphics engine, or each clock cycle of a circuit, or simply code that is executed whenever an often event is triggered

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Recurring Events in Calendar - Rails

I am searching for the best way to model recurring events. I am using fullcalendar to display events. But I guess recurring events are best handled on the rails backend. I already looked at other questions and existing example code but I didn't find…
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Recurring Events Database Model

I've being searching for a solution for recurring events, so far I've found two approaches: First approach: Create an instance for each event, so if the user has a daily event for one year, it would be necessary 365 rows in the table. It sounds…
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Database design for recurring events with exceptions

I'm building a system that needs to store/manage different types of events. For simplicity, I will focus on designing a calendar (I'm building something slightly different, but calendar is a good analogy and it's easy to reason about). I'd like to…
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Ruby gem to handle recurring calendar events

I want to find a Ruby gem that can work with recurring events that satisfies the following requirements: can process patterns like "Weekly on Tuesday and Wednesday", or "Monthly on the last Tuesday" can compute the next occurrence can…
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How to handle Recurrent event Survival analysis (Counting Process Approach) in Python

I am trying to find a way to model Survival Models for Recurrent Events in Python, especially the Counting process approach using CoxPH. In Counting Process Approach, it is expecting start-time and stop-time. But the fit method of CoxPHFitter in…
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Recurring Events, SQL Query

I am aware that questions about recurring events are common but I have not been able to find one with an answer to this specific question about recurring events other than those to do with calendar apps. The main difference being that the events in…
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Repeating Events on the "nth" Weekday of Every Month

I've looked at at least 2 dozen topics about this and haven't really found a good answer yet, so I come to you to ask once again for answers regarding the dreaded topic of Repeating Events. I've got Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly repeats working…
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Schedule reminder for recurring event

I'm working with a web application that allows users to create events (one-off or recurring) on a calendar, and shortly before an event starts the system will notify its participants. I'm having trouble with designing the flow for such notification,…
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Android CalendarContract recurring event with exception dates

I can't find a way to insert exception dates to a recurring event. Context I'm parsing an .ics file (ical format) with an event with success. Here is the .ics BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar…
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Does DDay Ical library calculate recurring rules correctly?

I've run some tests. Here is my code: var systemTimeZone = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Pacific Standard Time"); var icalTimeZone = iCalTimeZone.FromSystemTimeZone(systemTimeZone); var startTimeSearch = new DateTime(2015, 9, 8, 0, 0, 0,…
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Populating event recurrences VS Querying calendar events based on recurrence rules

I am creating specs for a PHP/mySQL Calendar application for a client. One of the problems that will have to be solved is recurring events whose incidence is set by rules like "yearly on the first weekend for which Sunday is in May". The client…
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php - working with dates like "every other week on tuesday"

I have a web scheduling app that I'm currently rewriting and have some questions about how to work with recurring appointments (I know there is no shortage of "what's the best way to do this" when it comes to recurring appts). So I want to offer…
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Google Calendar Gdata old recurring event deleted event still showing with a EventID ending in Z

I have tried to Google this question, but have had no luck, maybe due to the search string "Z" not being specific enough. Background: Using Google Calendar Zend gdata library, and have been using simple code to list events for a specific time…
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SharePoint Recurring Events Are Random?

Note: This question is similar to an existing, unanswered question (CAML OrderBy for SharePoint Recurring Calendar Event). How can I use the Lists.asmx web service to retrieve recurring events that occur today or later? I am providing the…
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Using Moment Timezone for Future Events, What should I save?

I have done a fair amount of research, and new to the idea of programming with time. I have an application where you must be able to schedule a meeting in local time. So you might say "23rd December 2017 at 9am in San Francisco". The Event Location…
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