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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Editing a recurring appointment
From:       Ákos_Szederjei <akos () szederjei ! com>
Date:       2008-12-12 20:21:06
Message-ID: 200812122121.09833.akos () szederjei ! com
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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 previous
> > ones unchanged.  If this is true I would call it a bug, and report it. 
> > 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. 
In the case of 2 it creates an excetpion (no appointment at that date) and 
allows the user to modify that single appointment.
We do not have a case for 3, except to do the same thing manually.ű

Ákos

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