Really need "to be able to schedule annual events that happen on the nth _day of a given month. E.g., every year on the fourth Thursday in November."

This is needed to handle annual holidays that occur on relative dates - US Thanksgiving occurs every year on the fourth Thursday in November.

Indeed, certain events do not occur on a fixed day of each month. For instance, some (U.S.) state retirement payments occur on the last Wednesday or Thursday of each month. Also, certain recurring events occur every 1st and 3rd (and sometimes 5th) Sunday of each month. Therefore, the current Proton Calendar options are not sufficient to replicate such recurrences. Please create a recurring event option to capture these unique instances.

Currently, we are able to schedule a recurring event for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weekday of the month. I would like to be able to create a recurring event for the 5th weekday of every month (for example, the 5th friday). This differs from the last Friday of every month, because it only exists in months with 5 Fridays.

Similar functionality already exists for the day of the month. For example, the 31st of the month does not exist every month, but we are able to create recurring events for only the months that contain that date.

It would be helpful to have the similar functionality for the 5th weekday.

Additionally, I need to be able to schedule annual events that happen on the nth _day of a given month. E.g., every year on the fourth Thursday in November.

Please add support for "<nth> <weekday> in <month>" for annual recurrence.

The web interface supports "second Sunday each month" but not "second Sunday in May" (aka Mother's Day), "third Sunday in June" (aka Father's Day), "second Sunday in March" (aka daylight savings time), "first Sunday in November" (aka standard time), etc.

Also, please test event invitations from Microsoft Outlook more completely, as many of Outlook's more sophisticated scheduling options, especially repeating ones, are not properly supported (Proton often just complains that the ICS is incorrect or unreadable... and yet Google and other calendars can do it ;-) ). Thanks!

Ran into this today, trying to schedule something repeating on the last day of the month. The UI gives me options for "the fourth friday" or "the last friday", but there's no option for "the last day". This is so weird. How do you end up supporting a specific enumerated weekday but not something basic like the last day of every month? :/

perhaps fixed? I need this as well on a yearly basis. I entered several events today that repeat on "the 3rd Sunday of January" and the "first weekend of April" and I had to just note that in the title of the event so next year hopefully I'll notice before I overbook and then can't attend. I am using chrome.

After reviewing the comments, I used my phone app to change the recurrence to be the 3rd Sunday every 12 months. (and, cool, it looks like I can do months up past 24...) and I verified that I can also do this in my chrome browser. Thank you!

Calendar repeating events by weekend or day of week. Not just day of month. There are MANY events I need to show on the 2nd, or 3rd weekend each month. I currently have to put them in manually each 6 months for 6 to 12 months ahead. Its a real hassle!

"3rd wednesday of the month" scheduling works fine for me, at least on the web interface, but there needs to be a last-day-of-month as well.

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Reuben Hochstetler kommentierte · Dienstag, 24. September 2024, 15:01 Uhr · Gemeldet

This is already working exactly like you want. At least from the browser.

https://snipboard.io/9M7OW4.jpg

With beta activated on Firefox 131.0.3 with Linux LMDE, I can still only choose the number oft days, weeks or months to repeat, but no option going any further such as shown in the screenshot.

@Reuben Hochstetler Thanks! This seems to be a recent feature, including on the browser. For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1eyj4zm/proton_calendar_poll_what_would_you_like_to_see/ has ‘More complex event frequency rules such as last Friday of the month etc.’ (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1eyj4zm/comment/ljdhdpr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) as an official votable option set by ProtonMail themselves. Furthermore, I was in contact with PM in August directly, and they agreed this had not yet been possible.

So it seems to be a new feature, not yet announced afaict.

It is also not fully implemented to cover more complex event recurrence:
* for example Good Friday, which depends on Easter which in turn is movable;
* June solstice, which happens anywhere between 20 and 22 June depending on the year.

As for how to implement these more complicated occurrences, I gave one option two comments before your comment.

@Rueben Hochstetler Thank you for your comment. I had not seen this as I don't typically use browser interfaces.

Also add the possibility to schedule first friday after the 6th of every month.

I firmly second this suggestion.

To add, for me it would also be useful to schedule around the spring/summer equinoxes and summer/winter soltices as they move around.

More generally: it is useful to set event recurrence to align with another already created/imported event. So if soltices were to have been imported, I could create a new event and choose from drop-down menu 'same as "summer soltice"'.

Well I didn't know it was possible in other calendar providers while I'd love such a feature. I already use similar schedules in Todoist

This is a basic feature of any useful calendar, and I'm amazed there's no UI for it.

Workaround:

Interestingly, it works if one imports an ICS file containing a recurring event such as "last day of the month". The description of such an event might not be accurate within Proton Calendar (e.g. it might say "every month on the 31st" even though it's actually "every month on the last day"), but it will schedule correctly. So as a labor-intensive workaround, one can:

• Export an ICS with the desired event from another app and import it into Proton Calendar.

...or...

• Export an ICS from Proton Calendar with a similar recurring event (e.g. monthly on the 31st), modify the recurrence rule for the event by manually editing the ICS file, then import it back into Proton Calendar.

For the tech masochists:

If you're manually editing an ICS file in a text editor (remember to use DOS newlines), you can change the target RRULE line as follows:

RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYMONTHDAY=-1

That's for the simple case of "last day of the month", repeating forever. See RFC 5545 § 3.8.5.3. Obviously, this isn't remotely practical, but someone might find it useful.

This is a core feature that makes the app less good in UI/UX sense than Google Calendar, etc. This is the #1 thing I want the most in an update from the dev team.

This seems to have been added. You can access it when you create a new event.

Please add this! I have events that occur on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Saturdays of each month and this would help me switch to using Proton Calendar!