# How to set no weekly recurring availability, but only specific time slots

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**Tags:** scheduler\
**Created:** [September 15, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.nylas.com/t/how-to-set-no-weekly-recurring-availability-but-only-specific-time-slots/918 "2025-09-15T07:28:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![YGKim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/47e85d/32.png) [@YGKim](https://forums.nylas.com/u/YGKim)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.nylas.com/t/how-to-set-no-weekly-recurring-availability-but-only-specific-time-slots/918/1 "2025-09-15T07:28:18Z")

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Once I set `participants[0].availability.open_hours` to an empty array, I get availability for all times.

The desirable behavior is to enable disabling all weekly recurring time slots, so that the user can pick some specific slots only.

Is there any way to achieve this behavior?

+ This should behave this way even when there are no specific time slots.

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**Author:** ![nick.barraclough](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.nylas.com/nick.barraclough/32/343_2.png) [@nick.barraclough](https://forums.nylas.com/u/nick.barraclough)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.nylas.com/t/how-to-set-no-weekly-recurring-availability-but-only-specific-time-slots/918/2 "2025-09-15T16:15:35Z")

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Hey @YGKim, upfront - we don’t support this right now.

I’m the PM for Scheduler - we’ll get this fixed, and I’ll let you know as soon as it’s done.

As a workaround, you could set the open hours to a small window where the user has a recurring meeting to block availability, and then use the specific\_time\_availability to achieve specific day/time combinations.