Events do have one thing that is different than contacts and which can be rather confusing—a recurring event. A recurring event is an event that is set up once and shows up many times in your calendar at regular intervals. An example might be a regular Monday morning conference call at work. You don't really want to enter that event into your calendar every week, but you do want it to show up on your calendar so that other people don't try to set up another meeting at the same time.
The event you just requested time off for doesn't need to be a recurring event. Let's create another event to remind you to check for approval of your request in order to demonstrate this aspect of the Calendar. The initial steps to create the event are the same as before. You won't supply as much information because this is just a reminder.
BlackBerryEvent reminder = (BlackBerryEvent) events.createEvent(); reminder.addString(BlackBerryEvent.SUMMARY, BlackBerryEvent.ATTR_NONE, "Check on request...