Unable to use recurrence pattern type as relative yearly & relative monthly while creating and updating ToDo Task.

Question

When we create ToDo with recurrence pattern using Rest API (as given https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/recurrencepattern?view=graph-rest-1.0), it doesn't take the provided values. This happen in case of recurrence pattern type: relativeYearly & relativeMonthly. Also for rest case, where dayOfMonth is required & provided then API does create the ToDo with default value i.e. 30 rather than requested value.

Sending recurrence object as
recurrence: {
pattern: {
type: 'relativeYearly',
interval: 2,
month: 12,
dayOfMonth: 4
}
}
It creates the ToDo with pattern type as "daily". It seems setting are not applied yet for the API.
Using V1.0 version here. Please guide.

Answer 1

Interesting. Please share the payload so that i can give a try on this.

Answer 2

Hi,

I seem to be experiencing the same issue in that a relativeMonthly recurrence pattern is saved as daily.

If I POST the following to https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/todo/lists/#list_id#/tasks

{  
    "title": "Remind me on the second Sunday of every month",  
    "recurrence": {  
        "pattern": {  
            "type": "relativeMonthly",  
            "interval": 1,  
            "daysOfWeek": ["sunday"],  
            "index": "second"             
        },  
        "range": {  
            "type": "noEnd"  
        }  
    },  
    "dueDateTime": {  
        "dateTime": "2021-07-11T09:00:00.0000000",  
        "timeZone": "Australia/Sydney"          
    },  
    "reminderDateTime": {  
        "dateTime": "2021-07-11T09:00:00.0000000",  
        "timeZone": "Australia/Sydney"          
    },  
    "isReminderOn": true  
}  

a reminder is created with the following recurrence pattern:

    "recurrence": {  
        "pattern": {  
            "type": "daily",  
            "interval": 1,  
            "month": 0,  
            "dayOfMonth": 0,  
            "daysOfWeek": [],  
            "firstDayOfWeek": "sunday",  
            "index": "first"  
        },  
        "range": {  
            "type": "noEnd",  
            "startDate": "2021-07-11",  
            "endDate": "0001-01-01",  
            "recurrenceTimeZone": "Australia/Sydney",  
            "numberOfOccurrences": 0  
        }  
    }  

According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/outlook-schedule-recurring-events and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/recurrencerange?view=graph-rest-1.0 this should work.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alistair

Answer 3

I am seeing the same issue with Powershell for WEEKLY occurrence

Object Being Loaded :

Recurance                      FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=SU
DueDateTimeTimeZone                                            
Assignee                       Brian Kendrick                  
ListName                       Household chores                      
Name                           Blow porches, driveway, and side deck
ListID                         taskList/8929837_12084023
CreationDate                   2023-05-28T10:51:44.000Z
Catagory                       Regular Maintenance
DueDate                        2023-05-28T13:00:00.000Z

Body Parameters

Categories                     {Regular Maintenance}                                                                              
Title                          Blow porches, driveway, and side deck                                                              
CreatedDateTime                2023-05-28T10:51:44.000Z                                                                           
Recurrence                     {firstDayOfWeek, interval, type, daysOfWeek}                                                       
DueDateTime                    2023-05-28T13:00:00.000Z 

Recurrence Pattern

firstDayOfWeek                 sunday                                                                                             
interval                       1                                                                                                  
type                           WEEKLY                                                                                             
daysOfWeek                     ["sunday"]                                                                                         

Error Response

New-MgUserTodoListTask : The property 'firstDayOfWeek' does not exist on type 'Microsoft.Graph.PatternedRecurrence'. Make sure to  only use property names that are defined by the type.
...
 + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: ({ UserId = c2d6...GraphTodoTask }:<>f__AnonymousType71`3) [New-MgUserTodoListTas     k_Create1], RestException`1     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : invalidRequest,Microsoft.Graph.PowerShell.Cmdlets.NewMgUserTodoListTask_Create1