275902 - Multiday (banner) events: distinguish between all day events and definite start/end time events

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Vollmann]

Start/end ist shown on a per day basis, it is not possible to enter day-spawning
appointments with a starttime on the first day and an end time on the last day
(for example my flight times)

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

Reporter,
    On my build (0.2rc2) I have no trouble creating an event starting and ending
on different days.  Could you please provide more detailed steps to reproduce
this bug?

Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

Mark,
    I'm marking the bug WORKSFORME since you did not respond.  If you are still
experiencing it, you can re-open the bug, but be sure to include all of the
relevant information, including detailed steps for reproducing the error.

(This is possibly referring to multi-day events shown as separate events in the
view - bug 199732)

Comment 3

[Mark Vollmann]

Hello Joey
I seem to have missed the first notification :-(

Example:
On Monday my flight takes of at 6 AM and on Sunday i return at 7 PM.

1. It is possible to create an event that starts at monday and ends at sunday
2. However, it is not possible to assign monday and sunday the start/end time
without affecting the days in between, i.e. tue - sat

More when i return home.

Yours
Mark

Comment 4

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #3)
Mark,
   I'm still not quite clear what you're asking for.  The best I can figure 
out, you'd like to schedule events, but only have their start and end times 
displayed.  The problem with this would be how they should be displayed in view 
that display an events length graphically (ie day/week)  If you arrive back at 
2:30 on Sunday, should the event show up as lasting from 1:30-2:30? 2:00-2:30?  
The RFC standard for calendar doesn't have any field for specifying a 'don't 
display between times X and Y, so this would be tough to implement.  I think 
this might be better handled by simply creating 2 events on your own at the 
start and end times, that way you could specify on your own how long they would 
be displayed for on Monday/Sunday.  If I've mis-understood you, please correct 
me!

Comment 5

[Mark Vollmann]

Attachment: Sample showing the test case

Comment 6

[Mark Vollmann]

Grrr my text got skipped because i uploaded an example :-(

The attachement shows how this case is handled in outlook, the event start at
one day at 8 and ends two days later. Outlook adds a white and a black clock to
both ends of the bar to show that these two days are not part of an "all day" event.

Hope this helps
Mark

Comment 7

[Joey Minta]

OK, I finally get it now!  I apologize for being so dense.  Thanks for the
prompt replies as well.  Check out bug 256588 and let me know if that's what
you're asking for.  If it is, can you mark this bug as a duplicate of it?

Comment 8

[Mark Vollmann]

CHeckedout the bug, but as far as i understand it, it does not relate to my
feature/bug.

ALthough i am not entirely sure what a banner event exactly means...

Comment 9

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #8)
> ALthough i am not entirely sure what a banner event exactly means...

From Microsoft's Outlook help website:  "banner: Event or holiday name that
appears at the top of the dates you specify in Calendar. A banner can span
multiple days. Items in banners are marked as free time and are represented by
the color white when you view your Calendar."

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what your picture was of.  However, I agree it's
not all that clear.  Any suggestions for what should be included in that bug to
make it a bit easier to understand?

Comment 10

[Mark Vollmann]

Not exactly :-)

The banner you mentioned is always the very first in the calendar. My feature is
an add on to existing banners: The normal banner has the same start and end time
for every day. My example shows how outlook marks the start and end date as
different in start/end time opposed to the days(s) in between.

Comment 11

[Joey Minta]

Alright, I'm re-reading through everything, and I think once again, that I
understand it.  Just for clarification, is it the clock, the small gaps before
the end of the day, or both that you'd like included in these events?  (I don't
know how Outlook normally does 'banners'.)  Also, I notice that the second clock
isn't correctly displaying 7pm (it shows 5pm).  Is that a bug in Outlook or does
your label not match the event?  Either way, if we're going to implement this (a
fairly long time down the road, I imagine), I think we should get the clocks
correct.

I'm confirming this as an enhancement request, and setting dependency on bug
256588, since until we have an event displayed across multiple days, we can't
even think about adding this.  (I think that's what a banner actually is.) I'm
also going to edit your summary a bit, since I at least had a bit of trouble
with this.

Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
OS: All
Hardware: All
Summary was: "Start-End-Date on dates spawning multiple days"

Comment 12

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

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

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 13

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Setting incomplete, not all questions from comment 11 were answered. I realize this is an old bug, I apologize it hasn't been touched for such a long time, I think its still not quite clear what we need to change.