225711 - Recurring tasks not displayed after first instance

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Mike Albrecht]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Recurring tasks only show for the first occurrence in view (currently only
multi-week view). A task set for, e.g., every Thursday starting 11/6 only shows
in view on 11/6, not on subsequent Thursdays.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up recurring task.
2. Select 'Tasks in View' from View menu or right-click context menu.
3. Note: 'Tasks in View' currently only works in Multi-week view

Actual Results:  
First occurrence shows. Subsequent occurrences do not show in view.

Expected Results:  
Task(s) should show in view for first and all subsequent occurences. Should also
be expanded to allow showing in other views (month, week, etc.) Completing task
for one occurrence should show line-through but not for future occurrences.

Comment 1

[Amy Vallidis]

This is also the case with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5)
Gecko/20031007.  Recurring tasks are very important to me, and I would love to
see this fixed.

Comment 2

[Luca Balzerani]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

After completing first instance, recurring tasks are not shown neither in the
task list.

Comment 3

[wolle]

*** Bug 257637 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[gekacheka]

This looks like dup (or subtask) of bug 155889

Comment 5

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Confirming and setting dependency per Mostafa

Comment 6

[Sarojani Mohammed]

I too would like to use the recurring tasks feature to keep track of bills, and
would love for every instance of a recurring task to show up in calendar, and be
able to complete them one at a time.

Thanks for the great work!

Saro

Comment 7

[Paul]

Related: completing a recurring task needs to provide option of completing all
recurrences or only the one on the current/active date.

Comment 8

[Bobby Daniels]

This is the one bug that keeps me from dumping MS Outlook forever.

Help Help Help

Comment 9

[Joey Minta]

0.3+ based on increased task support.

Comment 10

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 11

[Joey Minta]

This no longer blocks, but we'd accept a clean patch before the 0.3 slush.

Comment 12

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

This is WFM with Lightning 0.7pre (2007091903). The task/todo list shows only the first occurrence of the task.

Comment 13

[Bas van den Bosch]

Martin, are you sure? Lightning0.7pre (2007092504) both shows the tasks in the calendar and also recurring in the tasklist of the today-pane for a local calendar. If however you create a daily reccurent (?) task, under soon it gives the recurrence of one week from now. But this is really minor, so I think this bug can be closed...

Comment 14

[Pete Riley]

Bas, it seems that Bug 396910 addresses the problem that you mentioned about the Soon section, so I also agree that this bug is fixed.

Comment 15

[Bas van den Bosch]

comment 0 states also the following: [i]Task(s) should show in view for first and all subsequent occurences. Should also be expanded to allow showing in other views (month, week, etc.) Completing task for one occurrence should show line-through but not for future occurrences.[/i]

The last part, showing up in the tasklist and allowing setting completed on single parts of a task in the tasklist aren't fixed yet. Setting completed on single tasks in the Calendar is possible though. So not closing this bug yet.

Comment 16

[Pete Riley]

(In reply to comment #15)
>> Should also be expanded to allow showing in
>> other views (month, week, etc.)

Using Lightning 2007-10-01, I can see recurring tasks in month/multiweek views but I can't see *any* tasks in week/day views (recurring or not).  I could not find another bug that addresses this problem so maybe this bug should be renamed because the problem seems bigger than just recurring tasks.

>> Completing task for one occurrence should show
>> line-through but not for future occurrences.[/i]

Bug 373775?

Comment 17

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #16)
> Using Lightning 2007-10-01, I can see recurring tasks in month/multiweek
> views but I can't see *any* tasks in week/day views (recurring or not).

Works for me. Don't forget that your tasks needs a start date and a due date to be displayed in day/week view (see bug 339955 and also bug 349529).

Comment 18

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Martin, are you sure? Lightning0.7pre (2007092504) both shows the tasks in the
> calendar and also recurring in the tasklist of the today-pane for a local
> calendar.
> 
It doesn't show every occurrence in the task list for me.

Comment 19

[Pete Riley]

(In reply to comment #17)
> Don't forget that your tasks needs a start date and a due date to
> be displayed in day/week view [...]

Thanks, Stefan.  I can see tasks in all views now, recurring and non-recurring.  Recurring tasks show all instances.  So it seems that the only remaining problem in this bug is the same problem that's in bug 373775.

(In reply to comment #18)
> It doesn't show every occurrence in the task list for me.

IMO that's a good thing, Martin.  If I have a task that recurs weekly, I wouldn't want to see an infinite number of instances.

Comment 20

[cmtalbert]

Sounds like we have good bugs tracking the follow-on issues here and this bug can be marked as WFM based on comments 19 and 17.