# Add recurrent items within a date-range
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-recurrent-items-within-a-date-range/286514
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** events
**Created:** [November 24, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-recurrent-items-within-a-date-range/286514 "2023-11-24T11:32:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@FunctionalJerk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FunctionalJerk)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-recurrent-items-within-a-date-range/286514/1 "2023-11-24T11:32:52Z")
Using the [discourse-calendar-and-event](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar-and-event/97376), my fellow students and I were missing a feature that we think would improve the benefit of this plugin greatly.
Imagine this case:
We are using a calendar topic in order to organize the usage and occupancy of a specific room.
For twelve consecutive Wednesdays, the room will be occupied by a course from 10 AM till 3 PM, except for one Wednesday.
As of now we see two options to add recurring items that have a start -and end-date:
We either post each date individually - which clutters the topic and is tedious work - or we add it as a recurring item and just accept that it will go on forever, displaying courses that aren’t really happening (which creates demand for another calendar-app or some kind of commenting).
Also: You only get the option to create a recurring item when you don’t specify an end-time:
2023-11-22T09:00:00Z
`[date=2023-11-22 time=10:00:00 timezone="Europe/Berlin" recurring="1.weeks"]`
For our use case, end-time is kind of crucial. The resulting calendar entry will go on forever into the future as well as into the past.
I imagine two ways to add this feature to _insert time/date_:
1. When you specify a date-range that exceeds two days, you get the option to specify multiple _exceptions_ by patterns like _Fridays_, _Weekends_, _Holidays_, or by individual dates.
This would neglect start -and end-time of the individual occurrences, but still offer a viable solution.
2. The option for recurrence should be preserved, when specifying an end-time that has the same date. Then, when choosing recurrence, there’s an option to specify an end-date, marking the last occurrence. The starting-date should be the first occurrence of the recurring event.
I hope this is understandable and someone can relate and help us achieve this.
Thank you for your great work!
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### Author:  [@FunctionalJerk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FunctionalJerk)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-recurrent-items-within-a-date-range/286514/2 "2023-11-24T11:42:30Z")
I just now realized another option to solve this for our individual use case:
As students we can download .ics files for specific courses, containing all occurrences within the semester.
So I guess another solution would be an option (for admins) to import these files somehow.
This probably calls for a different feature-request?
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### Author:  [@MiniForum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiniForum)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-recurrent-items-within-a-date-range/286514/3 "2026-09-09T19:26:12Z")
I would like to also express my interest for such a feature.
The use case is a forum built for a school, where each class has its own category and we would like to maintain a calendar in a topic, where everyone can add some entry be replying to the topic and using the “insert date”.
Contrary to the `Create event` dialog where you can specify an end date, the `Insert date / time` dialog does not have the option to specify an end date.
I’m crossing my fingers but I’m not sure if this is a common request given that we are only 2 on this topic.
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-recurrent-items-within-a-date-range/286514/4 "2026-09-09T19:48:46Z")
I just drop my vote here because it’s very useful, and by the way, that seems to be something peeking into Discourse 🙂
Recurring events have their momentum on Meta: [Create individual event topics for recurring events - #18 by Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-individual-event-topics-for-recurring-events/370600/18)
Also, more related: [📅 New Calendar Feature: End Date for Recurring Events - #10 by MiniForum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-calendar-feature-end-date-for-recurring-events/368527/10)