585888 - When copying and pasting an event with recurrence, the copy cannot have recurrence

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 536796

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Ulrich Windl]

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I had created an event on Tuesday that repeats weekly until a specified date. As a had a similar event on Wednesday, I copied and pasted the event from Tuesday to Wednesday. Viewing the properties, the pasted event had no recurrence, and the recurrence settings are grayed out.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create event with recurrence
2. Copy and paste it
Actual Results:  
Pasted event has no recurrence, and recurrence cannot be enabled

Expected Results:  
Ideally the pasted event would have the recurrence adjusted, possibly after having asked the user whether the pasted event should have recurrence.

If the UI would allow to save a single event via context menu to an ICalendar file, it would have been quite easy to provide a sample to play with. ;-)

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> If the UI would allow to save a single event via context menu to an ICalendar
> file, it would have been quite easy to provide a sample to play with. ;-)

Select the event and copy it. Open text editor and paste from clipboard.