Re: more on "periodic appointments"

On Apr 5, 2005, at 22:23, Rafael Martín de Agar Tirado wrote:
> - You can easily add new periodic appointments, but you have to set 
> the start,
> period and _end_ date. I think this is not compatible with trying to 
> sync
> with a PDA (PocketPC) because in this case, periodic appointments do 
> not have
> end date.

Yep, that was the part you didn't understand in my initial reply :-)
iCalendar (and probably PocketPC) use "calculated" sequences while OGo 
uses "stored" sequences. Both have their particular advantages and 
disadvantages.

> Any ideas?

Well, you must set some reasonable limit. I see no other option 
(besides not synchronizing such events and letting the user know about 
the issue).

> - If you try to modify a created periodic appointment, it is possible 
> to have
> all the group modified by simply modifying the _first_ element of the 
> cycle.
> But I haven't managed to delete _all_ the appointments of a cycle. If 
> you try
> to delete the first one, it just deletes the first one. So you have to 
> delete
> _every_ appointment, one by one. I suppose it exists another way of 
> deleting
> all appointments of a cycle in a more direct and automatic way. Is it 
> true?
> Can anybody tell me how?

I think this might not be possible with the XML-RPC API. File a bug and 
I fix it.

Greets,
   Helge
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