Recurrence pattern for weekdays (Monday-Friday) only, without multiple events?

[claym]

First off, great guide! I learned a lot from it. After reading it, I had 2 questions from you:

1. Obviously, storing individual event instances is a bad idea - but what if you wanted to tie data to a specific instance date? For example, if I have a recurring event that happens every weekday (M-F) of the year. Let's say for one week, a possible attendee would not be at the one on Monday, would be there on Tuesday, not attend Wed/Thu, and would be there on Friday, and bringing a guest? And the following week, the attendance would be on completely different days. How could I tie that information to a specific instance without having an actual record for that instance?

2. Weekday only recurrence pattern
   This is very similar to the question here: Multiple days on a recurring week #4
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   But I was wondering if there was a way to represent events that recurred on weekdays only, but have a single event? If I'm doing weekdays only, I don't really want a Monday event, Tuesday event, Wednesday event, etc. The other option I suppose would be to make the "day" field an array, but, yuck?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

[leonardo2204]

Hi, @claym, hope you are doing ok!
I'm not super savvy on the library, but I've forked and have been using it for 1+ year, and it has suited me well, so I'll try to answer your question with the knowledge I have.

1. I ended up creating a new table, with event_id + start_date to handle this situation, but in my case, the user must go 1 by 1 to "join" a specific date. For what I understand, you want the user to be able to do similar to calendar, answering YES to "this and following events", is that correct? What I learnt is, Google probably saves this info in another table and has some kind of worker marking yes for the next X events (you can check that via email, when a user says YES or NO recurrently, you receive 30 emails give or so). But I don't think it's out of the box
2. Not sure if I completly understood, you want to have a single event instance, ocurring recurrently only on weekend?

Thanks!