📅 New Calendar Feature: End Date for Recurring Events

[Ethsim2 (Ethan)]

Yes - unfortunately the API would automate creating the replies, but it wouldn’t really solve the clutter problem: for a topic calendar the individual calendar entries are still represented by individual replies.

I’ve just found an existing feature request which is almost exactly your use case:

Add recurrent items within a date-range

Using the discourse-calendar-and-event, 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 dat…

Their example is a course occurring on twelve consecutive Wednesdays, and they make the same point: creating every occurrence individually is tedious and clutters the topic.

They suggest allowing recurrence in Insert date / time together with an end date for the final occurrence, which sounds very close to what you need.

So rather than building an API/Power Automate workaround that generates 52 posts, that feature request is probably the better place to add your school-calendar use case.