608722 - Wrongly displays changed recurring calendar events when exporting to an .csv file

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: Import and Export, defect)

Description

[k_rudnicki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2

If i change an occurrence of a recurring calendar event by double clicking on it (and then changing the time, for example) or by dragging it, it will not display properly when exported to a .csv file. It will be either altogether missing (in most of the cases) or it'll be displayed in the form it was before it was changed. It happened occasionally that a deleted single occurrence of a recurring event would still show up in the .csv file. In order to get it right, I had to delete the event and create a brand new one with the same name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create three daily recurring events
2. Change one single occurrence of each: one by double clicking and changing the time, one by dragging it to a different time slot, and leave the third one unchanged.
3. Export the calendar into a .csv file.
Actual Results:  
The events that were changed are either missing or display in the way they were before they were changed

Expected Results:  
The software should properly take into account all the changes made while exporting the calendar into a .csv file.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

The Outlook CSV format doesn't support many calendar features. For example it doesn't support repeating events. Therefore you'll only see the base event but no modified occurrences.

If you want to preserve information about repeating events and modified occurrences you need to select an export format that supports it, i.e. the iCalendar format.

Suggest to resolve wontfix.