654484 - Create an Event for Every 2 Weeks and Event is Duplicated Multiple times under Today

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Jeff Hendricks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110502 Firefox/6.0a1
Build Identifier: Lightning: The 28-Mar-2011 06:43 PST build is out!

Create an Event to occur every 2 weeks and indicate the event is suppose to start at 8am and end at 10am. Event is then listed under today multiple times for every 2 week event created

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create New Event for Every 2 weeks
2. Click on Save and Close
3. View Calendar by today or Week and Event shows multiple time

Actual Results:  
Display Event multiple times

Expected Results:  
Event should show only every 2 weeks

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Could you export the event and attach the sample here? I assume that you choose a different start date and end date and therefore created an event that lasts several days.

Comment 2

[Jeff Hendricks]

Attachment: See attached screen shot

Comment 3

[Jeff Hendricks]

Don't know how to just export just that event

Comment 4

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Screenshot shows that you created an event that lasts several days. Open the event for editing and check that start and end date are set correctly. Lightning behavior is most probably correct if they are set to different dates.

What you can do to get a sample file is e.g. create a new test calendar, import/create the test event in this calendar, export the calendar using menu Events and Tasks.

Comment 5

[Jeff Hendricks]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Screenshot shows that you created an event that lasts several days. Open the
> event for editing and check that start and end date are set correctly.
> Lightning behavior is most probably correct if they are set to different
> dates.
> 
> What you can do to get a sample file is e.g. create a new test calendar,
> import/create the test event in this calendar, export the calendar using
> menu Events and Tasks.

What I have noticed is under the heading of "Today" the vent that was created to occur every 2 weeks shows under Today from 6/4/2010 until 8/XX/2012. What I expect to see is that under "Today" in Calendar heading that the event for only the re-occurrence of the event should show up (not the past or future events).

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Maybe we have a simple misunderstanding here.

Your example: start date e.g. 2010-04-06 12:00, end date 2012-08-01 13:00 -> this means one occurrence of the events lasts 28 months. In addition it repeats every 2 weeks -> 2nd occurrence starts 2010-04-20 and ends 2012-08-15, 3rd occurrence starts 2010-05-04 and ends 2012-08-29, ...

Are you sure that you wanted to create such an event? Maybe you confuse the the end date of the (master) event with the until date for the recurrence rule?

Based on your description you want an event like start date 2010-04-06 12:00, end date 2010-04-06 13:00 -> one occurrence of the events lasts one hour. In addition you set the until date for the recurrence rule via Repeat -> Custom to 2012-08-XX.

Comment 7

[Jeff Hendricks]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Maybe we have a simple misunderstanding here.
> 
> Your example: start date e.g. 2010-04-06 12:00, end date 2012-08-01 13:00 ->
> this means one occurrence of the events lasts 28 months. In addition it
> repeats every 2 weeks -> 2nd occurrence starts 2010-04-20 and ends
> 2012-08-15, 3rd occurrence starts 2010-05-04 and ends 2012-08-29, ...
> 
> Are you sure that you wanted to create such an event? Maybe you confuse the
> the end date of the (master) event with the until date for the recurrence
> rule?
> 
> Based on your description you want an event like start date 2010-04-06
> 12:00, end date 2010-04-06 13:00 -> one occurrence of the events lasts one
> hour. In addition you set the until date for the recurrence rule via Repeat
> -> Custom to 2012-08-XX.

Yes maybe is was a misunderstanding on my part as to how this was suppose to work logically with the start and end date. I revised the event as you described and started the event and ended it the same day but reoccurring every 2 weeks and now it only shows up once in the clandar under today but repeated every 2 weeks. Thanks for pointing out how it actually is suppose to work..

Comment 8

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Looks like this one is solved according to comment #6.