Sharepoint Calendar

Question

I'm not able to put a multi-day event on a sharepoint calendar as a recurrence.  I add a new event, select the start and end date and times then check recurrence and set the recurrence time frame.  When I save the event it changes the end date to only either the same as the start date or the day after based on the start time.  When I connect the calendar to outlook and try to do the same thing I get a message that "The recurrence pattern you selected for the current appointment is not supported by Sharepoint".  Anyone else experienced this? 

Answer 1

Help us by telling us which SharePoint product and version you are asking about.

 

Also which version of Outlook you are using (and whether you have Exchange Server or not)

 

 

 

Answer 2

1. Create a New Meeting Request in Outlook, you will have an option in the ribbon to create a meeting workspace. Cleck Meeting Workspace. If not create a sharepoint calendar anywhere and use the actions drop to sync the first one. I dont remember if Outlook needs to be aware of SharePoint prior to having the button appear in the fluent ui.

2. Click Create, select a location, choose other, choose the site where you want the meeting workspace to be located

3. Choose the type of workspace and click ok

4. Click Create

 

Once its created you will see the following in the body of the meeting request. Note you do not have the option when creating appointments. All attendees will automatically have rights to the meeeting workspace.........

 

Meeting Workspace: TEST2 Visit the workspace to learn more about this meeting or edit its contents.

 

The LeftNav will now have the list of Recurrences (my apologies for the formatting I just cut and past)

 

Select a date from the list below:
	6/27/2008
	7/4/2008
	7/11/2008
	7/18/2008
	7/25/2008
	8/1/2008
	8/8/2008
	8/15/2008
	8/22/2008
	8/29/2008
	9/5/2008
	9/12/2008
	9/19/2008
	9/26/2008
	10/3/2008

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Also, plan for a Rollup location oif all of your meeting workspaces a top level site

 

-Ivan

 

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Answer 3

He only has a ribbon if he has Outlook *2007*

We don't know that. We also don't know whether this is v2 SharePoint or v3 SharePoint.

Why not wait until the guy replies to my questions before you give him a solution that may well depend on a certain combination of Outlook version and SharePoint version ?

Answer 4

Agreed, I had a couple of days off (well Kinda) in between projects this week and was just buzzin through trying to help folks.... I noticed you were work with http://wss.collutions.com hows Jim, I know her moved we used top play video games in basement in San Jose............. I will be back in SF week after next for the next 12 weeks.....

 

Cheers,

 

Ivan Sanders

SharePoint Architect

Dimension Solutions, Inc.

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Answer 5

I've run into the same issue today. Using MOSS2007 and Office 2007.  Doesn't seem to support multi-day recurring events. Is there not a more efficient way to do this than to keep creating meeting workspaces? If a team simply wants to use a SharePoint calendar to manage their monthly duties (and some of those duties recur and take multiple days), it seems cumbersome to deal with lots of meeting workspaces.

I tested out some of the other application templates, such as the event planning and absence/vacation scheduling, just in hopes that there were different features for the event items, but no luck.

Is there any way to do multi-day recurrences? Something custom that can be done through SharePoint designer perhaps?

Thanks

Answer 6

Any workarounds on this? 

What a horrible design that you can't do multi-day recurrences...

Answer 7

I was secretly hoping for salvation from SP2 - but no such luck. I can't even seem to find a third party solution...

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DG

Answer 8

I just used my own workaround... I created the multi-day event on my own Outlook calendar as it does support multi-day recurrences. Then I opened my calendar and the SharePoint calendar side by side and just dragged and dropped each occurrence. A bit of a pain, but much less cumbersome than making a meeting workspace when you don't really need one. Then if the event doesn't need to stay on my own calendar, I just delete it after I'm done dragging each occurrence across. Unfortunately it'll never recur automatically this way but at least it shows up properly on the calendar without having to make a workspace. (Mine is to schedule on-call weeks so a meeting workspace for that would be completely useless).