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Nick Mitchell

Remove or at least increase 14 day limit on calendar event duration

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It seems rather odd to be limited to 14 days duration for calendar events. For anything longer it is necessary to add multiple events which is painful. People do stuff for longer periods, I'm sure you are aware.

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Admin User - 2 years ago

Recurring Events are now available in Lightning! At the time of my last post seven months ago, this feature was not. But now, a three-week vacation can be represented as "repeats every day for 21 occurrences." A two-week training that happens every day but Wednesday can be represented as "repeats Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri from March 4 to March 15, 2019." This solves the problem stated in the original idea, that it is "painful" to have to create multiple events -- instead, create just one Recurring Event!

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Abhinav Bajaj - 25 days ago

We are creating events using Field Service - Non availability section so this recurring events do not really help
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Julian (JungGil) LEE - 2 months ago

Surprised by this limitation. It must be more than 14 days.
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Joanne Kim - 3 months ago

I am pretty sure there's a logical reason for the limitation--at least for the product design engineers; however, it causes a pain in the neck for everyone else. Please recognize this user needs and adjust your coding.

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Vincent Drader - 3 months ago

This is "partially delivered" but the work around of making a recurring event is not tenable. For instance, most of our Salesforce Events get created via the Lightning Outlook Sync configuration. So we have users who make events that last longer than 14 days in MS Outlook, and of course, it doesn't sync because of the max 14 day validation rule. So here I am looking like a complete idiot telling my users to not make any events that last longer than 14 days in Outlook. Haha. Please fix this.

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Renae Muller - 7 months ago

Agree, there should be a way to remove this limit from events.
Recurring events is not possible to resolve this issue within our business as we still need the option to close out tasks / events and recurring does not allow you to close these.
Please advise if there is a workaround to this?

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Dave Hetesi - 7 months ago

Anything we can do to get this going? Booking 31 days for August isn't really useful. Even if the max length was 15 days (equally as arbitrary as 14), at least we could book a month with two events instead of three.

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Ruth Kunakhovich - 7 months ago

This would be lovely!!! Recurring events will work in the meantime, though. Thank you!
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Diandre Langlais - 8 months ago

Sorry, this is NOT partial delivery and actually doesn't solve to original poster's problem. Creating multiple events is only the symptom of the real issue which is the limitation on event durations. Allowing the creation of repeat events, while useful in itself, does nothing to address the issue.

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Tara Marta - 8 months ago

We use events to plan documentation cycles, as well as tradeshows, and industry days. Some of these cycles last months. Therefore, if a team is going to be working a project or EVENT for more than 14 days we should be able to choose dates more than 14 days. The Event duration limit should be indefinite. This is very odd to limit to 14 days.

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Christian Smedberg - 9 months ago

I couldn't agree this this more, this limitation is ridiculous - and creating reoccuring events is not an adequate solution.
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Heather Horwath - 10 months ago

Agreed, Recurring Events do not solve this problem. We use Events to calculate duration of an Activity period for assessments which could last up to 4 months depending on the size of the contract. The Event duration limit should be indefinite. This is very odd to limit to 14 days.

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Sebastiaan van den Roovaart - 10 months ago

I also agree with previous comments - the ability to have long duration events is different to and not completely met by recurring events. Please still implement a limit change.
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General SysAdmin - 10 months ago

Recurring Events are not the solution for us. 14 days is such an arbitrary and ridiculous limit. Change the limit that is the answer.
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Kelly Ames - 10 months ago

Please allow events that are longer than two weeks be accurately represented in Salesforce by increasing the limit.
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Heiko Naumann - 1 year ago

It's a shame this Idea has been posted 10 (!) years ago and this is still not resolved. In our case it means we cannot use a complete feature (Synchronization of Service Appointments and Absences in Field Service Lightning) we pay for, and there is now workaround whatsoever. Sad :-(