[Chandler-dev] Re: Fwd: [Bug 12115] Confusing discrepancy between list views on Hub and Desktop

Mimi Yin wrote:
> I am forwarding this bug to the Dev-List as I think it's an important 
> usability issue we should address in the web UI for 1.0:
>
> *Background:*
>
> In the interest of performance, we currently only look 1 month into 
> the future when loading recurring events into the Triage Table in the 
> Chandler Hub web UI. 
>
> This means that the web UI won't display a recurring event under the 
> following circumstances:
>
> 1. the recurring event *starts* more than 1 month into the future
> 2. you have deleted the next occurrence, creating a recurrence gap of 
> more than 1 month
> 3. the recurring event recurs at an interval more than 1 month apart 
> (e.g. annually recurring holidays)
>
> Given that we will be shipping 1.0- Desktop with a shared U.S. 
> Holidays calendar, out of the box, I think we need to make it so that 
> at least Scenario #3 works well in the web UI.
>
> From Randy's comment below, it seems the amount of work required to 
> correctly load "the next occurrence of a recurring event series" for 
> all 3 scenarios is out of scope for 1.0
>
> However, we can implement a smaller change that would take annually 
> recurring events and look 1 year into the future to find the next 
> occurrence.
>
> *Randy, even though Chandler doesn't support bi-monthly and bi-annual 
> recurrence rules. We do support importing them. Would it be possible 
> to simply expand this exception to include any recurring events that 
> have a recurrence rule of more than 1 month?*

Its possible, its just a matter of checking for different recurrence rules.

> Is this an accurate summary Randy?
>

Yes, very.  We can also try to make #1 work a little better by searching 
further in to the future for recurring events.  In fact I think we can 
get all 3 scenarios somewhat working for 1.0 using the current apis.

-Randy
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