What's the best label for an 'occurrences' field?

Question

I have a field where the user needs to enter the number of times they want to send out a document but need a better label.

Firstly, they select the frequency (weekly, monthly, yearly) and then there is this ambiguous occurrences field where they need to type a number to represent the number of times this should be repeated.

i.e. Weekly 7 would result in the document being sent weekly for 7 weeks

I've noticed Google has something like this, but I'm not sure if this is the best approach.

What is the most appropriate way to approach this?

Answer 1

"Repeat this event until" and then have a date selector.

edit: date.

Answer 2

MS Outlook could be of use in this situation:

Answer 3

You could update the labels to read like the sentence in natural language. Use default values for the secondary field so the user isn't forced to provide input.

Frequency
[ weekly    v] for [ 2 ] weeks

[ monthly   v] for [ 2 ] months

Or allow mode selection for termination

[ weekly    v] [ for  v] [ 2 ] weeks

[ weekly    v] [ until v] [ {next week's date} ]

using a date type input and/or launching a calendar picker in the "until" case.

Answer 4

Why not just set the label relevant to the selection from the first menu.

So if they choose "Weekly" set the label to "Weeks" so when they pick 7 they'll know they're setting "7 weeks". Same for Daily/Days, Yearly/Years.

You could also test putting a # sign or "Number of " in front of it so it will read "# weeks" or "number of weeks", that way it will further reduce potential confusion. Although it may be too verbose so I recommend testing.