Re: Editing a recurring appointment

On Friday 12 December 2008 20:21:06 Ákos Szederjei wrote:
> On Friday 12 December 2008 19:54:42 Art Alexion wrote:
> > On Friday 12 December 2008 10:07:06 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I have a weekly appointment, for which the time will change in the New
> > > Year. I can't find any way to change forward times only, leaving
> > > previous ones unchanged.  If this is true I would call it a bug, and
> > > report it. Am I missing something?
> >
> > I am going to make a guess here, based solely on my experience with Palm
> > Pilots and how they handle that.  If you make a change to a recurring
> > appointment in the Palm, it asks you whether you want to change (1) all,
> > (2) that instance, or (3) this and all future occurrences.  If you use
> > (3) it actually terminates the original recurrence and creates a new
> > recurring appointment with the change.  If you choose (2) it creates 3
> > appointments, the original terminated just before the changed one, the
> > changed one, and a new recurring one starting with the next one after the
> > changed one.
> >
> > To the extent this is not implemented in kontact, you can do it manually.
> > Duplicate the appointment.  Edit one copy and terminate it at the end of
> > the year.  Edit the other one with a new time and to begin at the first
> > of the year.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
> Kontact does something similar.
> In the case of 2 it creates an excetpion (no appointment at that date) and
> allows the user to modify that single appointment.
> We do not have a case for 3, except to do the same thing manually.ű
>
> Ákos

Ákos, thank you for discussing this with us.  It does help in the 
understanding of the 'nuts and bolts' of the application :-)

Anne

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