From kdepim-users  Fri Dec 12 20:21:06 2008
From: =?utf-8?q?=C3=81kos_Szederjei?= <akos () szederjei ! com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:21:06 +0000
To: kdepim-users
Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Editing a recurring appointment
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On Friday 12 December 2008 19:54:42 Art Alexion wrote:
> On Friday 12 December 2008 10:07:06 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have a weekly appointment, for which the time will change in the New
> > Year. I can't find any way to change forward times only, leaving previo=
us
> > ones unchanged.  If this is true I would call it a bug, and report it.=
=20
> > Am I missing something?
>
> I am going to make a guess here, based solely on my experience with Palm
> Pilots and how they handle that.  If you make a change to a recurring
> appointment in the Palm, it asks you whether you want to change (1) all,
> (2) that instance, or (3) this and all future occurrences.  If you use (3)
> it actually terminates the original recurrence and creates a new recurring
> appointment with the change.  If you choose (2) it creates 3 appointments,
> the original terminated just before the changed one, the changed one, and=
 a
> new recurring one starting with the next one after the changed one.
>
> To the extent this is not implemented in kontact, you can do it manually.
> Duplicate the appointment.  Edit one copy and terminate it at the end of
> the year.  Edit the other one with a new time and to begin at the first of
> the year.
>
> Hope this helps.

Kontact does something similar.=20
In the case of 2 it creates an excetpion (no appointment at that date) and=
=20
allows the user to modify that single appointment.
We do not have a case for 3, except to do the same thing manually.=C5=B1

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