Option to delete future occurrences of a recurring calendar item in Lightning

[jdfoote]

Currently, when modifying a recurring event you can either delete all occurrences or the current occurrence. It would be nice to be able to delete the future events, but leave those that have already occurred unchanged.

[Jon]

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[HW987]

I support this request. I need to delete a series of repeating future events but wish to retain those earlier events as a record in my calendar.

[Аlex]

Is there any way to find out when this feature will be implemented?

[Jon]

@Аlex let me check with the Thunderbird team to see if this is on their roadmap

[Chris2]

I am amazed this very basic function seems to be impossible - but fortunately Google calendar lets you do it.

[dkbg]

I landed here because I was looking for this feature as well. Another way to accomplish the same thing (which may not work for all events) is to edit the recurrence end date, as mentioned here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2355617

[Noob_Opinions]

I ABSOLUTELY support this. I have several recurring business meetings that get scheduled by others for ridiculously long lengths of time, then a year later, they end, and I have to delete them one-by-one until the end of the imported schedule. It is a massive headache, especially for events where people put no end dates on them. I've had this option on other calendars, and it can be a massive time saver. PLEASE impliment it.

[Noob_Opinions]

Also, to dkbg's point, that only works for events that you create. I have several repeating meetings that are either no longer going or that I am no longer working with that were sent to me by someone else. You can't edit events that you accept from someone else. All you can do is delete them.

[Cal]

This is an absolutely vital feature to be able to use recurring events. Currently, not only is there no way to edit future events, but you can't access the "edit only this event" and "edit all" options when dragging to change an event's date/time, it just defaults to edit only this. I would suggest the same popup allowing you to select "only this event" and "all" options when editing events in this way, along with the proposed "future events" option.

There also needs to be a way to detach a recurring event entirely to move it to a different calendar (there may be other uses, but that is the main one I can think of). I'm going to open a separate feature request for this. This wouldn't be as necessary if copy and paste didn't work for recurring events - I am also submitting a bug report for that.

[psijure]

Totally agree, I want Thunderbird to be my single calendar program, but the absence of "Delete This and all following events" forces me to go back to Outlook online to do so.

For business use, we frequently use recurring events, so we also need to end them easily.

[Akuilera]

Hi!

Are there news about this feature? Is really annoying to do it manually repeatedly

[Noob_Opinions]

Nothing yet. Frustrating silence.

[dogception]

Would also love for this feature to be implemented! Is there any updates from the team on whether or not this is in the roadmap?

[audalics]

This would be a great feature to have, not sure why there's been silence since it was stated that someone would check if it's on the roadmap.

Maybe it needs its own thread but even nicer would be the ability to remove specific days of recurring instances, like say I have a daily occurence that I can no longer attend every other monday, it would be awesome to be able to go to delete one on monday and have the option to delete all future occurences on monday / every other monday. Something like that.

[Fredo]

I use Google Calendar as the back end, but I almost exclusively use Thunderbird to manage my calendar. As others have already written, this is the one feature that I still need to open Google Calendar for.

And yes, technically it’s probably the same thing as editing the end date of the recurring event. (And I guess that’s what Google Calendar does behind the scenes.) But UX wise it’s just so much simpler to hit delete on the first unwanted occurrence and choose "delete this and all future occurrences". Would be great if Thunderbird could implement this as well.