Irregularly Recurring Events?

Not as a repeating event, no, not unless there's a trick I haven't heard of. The only way I can think of to handle this would be to create one instance of the event, then duplicate it (as many times as necessary) and change the date for each duplicate. Or if there's any sort of pattern to any of the occurrences - that is, it happens on the 5th of every month, the 14th of every month, the 20th, etc. - then create multiple repeating events, one for each of those regularly-occurring intervals (i.e. one repeating event for the 5th, another for the 14th, etc.).

Regards.

Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

Surely there must be some way to incorporate variance into iCal events?

Such as every XX days?

Or even every calendar month (same date in the month) or every 4 weeks (lunar month?)

Maybe options for every XX days or every XX weeks?

You can set an iCal repeating event for every xxx days, yes. But not irregular intervals such as the OP appears to be looking for, where the repeat is not a regular number of days/weeks later or on the same day each week/month.

Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

Ah yes, I see what you mean.

I just tried and there might be another workaround but it is probably a bit faffier than the duplicate > re-date one posted earlier and I admit not to have given it a try.

A bit like alarms have first and second and ... it seems that repeats also have sub-options (not tried).

I'm glad you posted as it makes stuff a lot easier for me.

Maybe there should be an irregular repeat option that encapsulates the duplicate > re-date workaround?

Repeats > irregular > date #1, date #2, ... , date#n?

Can you please tell me how to set an event for every xx days, as I can't find it in the allowable alternatives under "recurring".

I really need this to try and keep track of when i need to replace my medications, which all come in different number of days' doses (but constant for each med :))

Set the repeat to custom. You can the select every day, then specify the number of days.

AK