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Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Recurring entries in Calendars, with exceptions
From:       Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-03-18 10:15:30
Message-ID: 201203181115.41793.krammer () kde ! org
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On Sunday, 2012-03-18, Shaheed Haque wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking into how Exchange handles exceptions to recurring
> Calendar entries, and trying to map them to KCalCore. The basic notion
> of having an Event with recurrences works fine, but the only support I
> see for defining exceptions is to addExRule(RecurrenceRule). This is a
> relatively poor fit for Exchange which support changes to the subject,
> location and all sorts of other properties. OTOH, an exception in
> Exchange has no ability to recur itself, which a RecurrenceRule can
> clearly handle.
> 
> Roughly speaking, an exception in Exchange is a cut-down one-off
> Event, rather than a RecurrenceRule.
> 
> Have I misunderstood how to use what is there, or are there any plans
> to change the way exceptions work to allow them to have richer
> semantics along the lines that Exchange supports?

Would it be possible to add a recurrence exception so that the usual event 
does not appear of the specific date and additionally add a new child event for 
just that date?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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