For work that happens on a regular cycle, weekly garden, monthly servicing contract, annual gas safety check, set the recurrence at create-time and Mucka books the full series in one go.
Where to set it
When you're creating a new job (see Schedule a job), there's a Recurrence option in the modal. Tap it and pick:
- Frequency: Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly
- Interval: Every X units (e.g. every 2 weeks, every 3 months)
- Days (for Weekly): which weekdays the job lands on
- End: On a specific date, after N occurrences, or never
Hit save and Mucka books every occurrence into your diary up to the end date (or for the next 12 months if you picked "never").
Examples
| Job | Frequency | Interval | End | |---|---|---|---| | Garden maintenance, Tuesday weekly | Weekly | Every 1 week | Never | | Boiler service, every 6 months | Monthly | Every 6 months | Never | | Gas safety cert, yearly | Yearly | Every 1 year | Never | | Bathroom fitout, Mon to Fri for 3 weeks | Daily | Every 1 day | After 15 occurrences | | Quarterly servicing for 5 years | Monthly | Every 3 months | After 20 occurrences |
Editing a single occurrence
Each occurrence of a recurring job is its own job in Mucka's diary. Open any one (in Jobs or Schedule), tap Edit, and change the time, engineer or notes for just that day. Save. Nothing else in the series is touched.
This is how to handle one-off shifts: the Tuesday after Christmas moving to Wednesday, a single occurrence going to a different engineer, that kind of thing.
Changing the pattern for the whole series
The recurrence rule lives on the parent job (the first one in the series). Open the parent, tap Edit, and change the Recurrence dropdown (or open the custom modal). When you save, Mucka regenerates all future child occurrences from the new rule.
Note: regenerating wipes individual tweaks on future occurrences. If you'd previously moved one Tuesday to Wednesday, that custom change will be lost when the pattern is regenerated. Past occurrences (already happened) are kept untouched along with their notes, photos and any invoices raised.
Cancel the whole series
Delete the parent job. Mucka cascades the delete and removes all future child occurrences. Past occurrences stay in the diary as historical records.
If you only want to stop a series from a certain date onwards (rather than delete all future), edit the parent's recurrence and set an end date instead.
Common gotchas
- Bank holidays. Mucka books the cycle as-is. If a recurring Tuesday job falls on a bank holiday, open that one occurrence and edit its time or date, the rest of the series stays put.
- Engineer goes on holiday. Recurring jobs assigned to one engineer don't auto-reassign. If they're off for a week, open each occurrence in that week and reassign them one by one (auto bulk-reassign for a date range is on the roadmap).
- Long series consumes diary view. A weekly job set to "never end" books a year ahead. If your diary feels cluttered, set a sensible end date and renew the series later.
- Recurring quote-to-job. Quotes don't auto-recur. If you do the same recurring work for multiple clients, save it as a job template (coming) or just copy the quote each time.