122648 - (cal-events) Events tracking bug (Calendar Requirements Document, section 6)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Charabaruk]

This is a tracking bug for Events, section 5.0 of the Calendar Requirements 
Document.

Comment 1

[Chris Charabaruk]

Bugspam: Adding meta keyword to tracking bugs, something they should have had
from the start. :P

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

Tracking bug. Sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Noah Swint]

# 5.2 Repeating events
Using the latest Mozilla Calendar 2002070410-cal you lose the ability to repeat
an event by the daily and weekly position in the month.  For instance you want
to schedule a corporate outing yearly on the first monday every August.  You are
no longer able to do that.  The only options listed to repeat are for every
August 5th or to repeat every last monday in August.

Also there needs to be this option on the yearly pulldown instead of on the
repeating by month pulldown

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

Default QA Contact for Calendar has changed.  If you wish to remain the QA
contact for this bug, feel free to change it back.

Comment 5

[UweJ.]

Multiple Events planed for same time, not shown correctly if they are
rescheduled eg. same time at next week's monday.
At starting point td tiles vertically for two events, next week's entry you see
only one of the events.
restrictions on day view not remember in week view.

Mozilla Calendar 2002112809-cal Win32

Comment 6

[Scott D. Brown]

With Palm Desktop and other calendar programs you can add "unique" notes to
a repeating event.  For example, you have a weekly staff meeting, but you 
want to add a note about what topics will be discussed next week.  Currently,
the Notes are the same for all recurrances of the event.

Comment 7

[Mark J. Reed]

Also the calendar doesn't currently support less common recurrences; for
instance,  U.S.A. election day is defined as the Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, which is sometimes the first Tuesday and sometimes the Second.

A general facility which let you choose several conditions which must all be met
for the recurrence to occur (month=November and day=Tuesday and date>=2 and
date<=8) would be ideal; see e.g. the PalmOS application ReDo for an intuitive
GUI way of letting the user supply these conditions.

Comment 8

[jason lowry]

There should be a "reminder" type event that sets a start date and time. This
should remind you to do something, but not allocate time to do it. Example:
"Make a 5 minute phone call at noon". This would allow you to set an event, but
if you only schedule it for 5 minutes, then you have a little tiny sliver of
time and you can't read what it is. Perhaps reminders should be displayed in a
different color?

Comment 9

[Michael Holzer]

Removing the ability to schedule reoccurring events is SEVERELY missing the boat
here. I am currently designing a scheduler (so I have researched the usability
extensively) and use one consistently throughout the day (Oracle Corporate Time)
. 60+% of the events scheduled are reoccurring.

Comment 10

[nikosai]

Hey, just thought I'd ask: I've seen a little bit of support for this in other
programs; can we have the ability to alter the properties of a single recurrence
of an event? This is similar to the request in #6, except that I'm thinking more
along the lines of having just about anything modifiable for a particular
recurrence, i.e., a user can change the time that it is on, when it finishes,
add a note to it, etc., and it won't alter any of the other instances. However,
when the user alters a property of one instance of the event, all of the other
properties will still change with the other instances.

For example, the user creates an event, let's call it "Happy Hour", from 6-9pm
every Friday night. Then, for one particular evening, the user wants "Happy
Hour" to end at 10pm instead. A short while after this, the user alters "Happy
Hour" globally, to begin at 6:30pm. All of the instances of "Happy Hour" now
begin at 6:30pm, and the instance that was altered to end at 10pm still ends at
that time. I don't know much of the internal workings of the calendar, but would
something like this be at all possible to do?

Comment 11

[Cameron King]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Hey, just thought I'd ask: I've seen a little bit of support for this in other
> programs; can we have the ability to alter the properties of a single recurrence
> of an event? 

Perhaps when an item is "customized" it might be excluded from the recurring
event and then made into an independant event.  Then of course we would need a
way to remove the exclusion at a later date.

Comment 12

[k3rn]

Users should be able to join a file (like .txt) to an event.
Just a link to a file located on the hard disk, or a file joined to Sunbird.
(cf evolution)

Comment 13

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

We don't need this tracking bug, because the underlying requirement document is outdated and has therefore been removed.