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Recurring Event

itsbriantruong opened this issue · comments

commented

I am having trouble creating a recurring event. What parameters must be set? I keep getting invalid elements when I try to set parameters such as

calendar_item_type => 'RecurringMaster'

Can someone provide an example

commented

I haven't used recurring events :(

commented

ahh okay. Do you, by chance, know how to make it so attendees "accept" their invite automatically?

commented

Don't know, is that even possible?

commented

The Google Calendar api supports it, so I was hoping exchange would as well :/

commented

I was also struggling to get recurring event's - solution was to patch find_item.rb and add this CalendarView to SOAP call specifying start & end date.
More about CalendarView

Not sure if I did the best implementation, but when I will refactor my code I could try to create Pull Request - let's hope somebody will be able to take a look on it :)

commented

@janis-vitols pull requests are welcome :)

commented

I figured out how to create recurring events, in my case I wanted an event to repeat every second week forever, here's what I did:

class WeeklyRecurrence < Exchanger::Element
  element :interval, :type => Integer
  element :days_of_week, :type => String
end

class NoEndRecurrence < Exchanger::Element
  element :start_date, type: String
end

class Recurrence < Exchanger::Element
  element :weekly_recurrence, :type => WeeklyRecurrence
  element :no_end_recurrence, type: NoEndRecurrence
end

calendar = Exchanger::Folder.find(:calendar, 'user@example.com')
item = calendar.new_calendar_item({
  start: '2017-09-14T11:42:18+02:00',
  end: '2017-09-14T12:42:18+02:00',
  subject: 'My Recurring Test Event',
  recurrence: Recurrence.new(
    no_end_recurrence: NoEndRecurrence.new(start_date: '2017-09-14+02:00'),
    weekly_recurrence: WeeklyRecurrence.new(interval: 2, days_of_week: 'Thursday')
  )
})
item.save

Remarks: Microsoft uses a date string with the time zone appended to the and as start date for the NoEndRecurrence so I just made it a String type instead of a Date type.

There are more recurring types such as "NumberedOccurences" etc.

@ebeigarts: If this is of any use for you I could start a PR with a proper implementation of those element types.

commented

@sled I'm not using exchanger anymore, but pull requests are welcome, maybe someone else needs this too.