Re: Recurring Tasks - next date? (Lightning User)

Markus Adrario <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:20:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.calendar
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

how about adding this onfo to the tooltip popup?
This way one would only have to hover the mouse over an event to see 
this info.

I don't think it would be too annoying for users who don't need it.

Markus


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> Hi there...
>
> Right now if you open a single task you get asked if you want to open just this single instance or the generall recurring task if there are many (like every 3 weeks on monday 9am starting 1st February 2011).
> If you open the general one you can change it from monday 9am every 3 weeks to wednesday 8am every second week for example and it will get changed for the future.
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> But here comes the problem:
> I've many old events/task and use them over a long time, so when I open them and want to modify the date or just have a look when it will appear again I see the beginning date (and day of the week) and the recurring schedule (every 15th day of the month e.g.) but if I want to know at which day of the week it will appear next time or which exact date etc. there is just no way to do this.
> How about adding a line "Next Occurence" with the exact next date + day of the week? Maybe add the week of calendar, too.
>
> The same would be very helpful for events as well!
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> Hope you see my point here and like the idea. Feel free to give me feedback or ask for details... really looking forward to organizing my day with Lightning with less pain!
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