[kronolith] Recurring events with RDATE

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Jens Wahnes <wahnes at uni-koeln.de>:

> When trying to import an event from an ICS file that uses RDATE to  
> define multiple occurrences of that event, only the "first" event is  
> shown in Kronolith.  That is, the later dates where the event is to  
> reoccur are silently dropped upon import.  It seems that Kronolith  
> does not support recurring events that do not follow a regular  
> scheme (e.g. weekly or bi-weekly, defined via RRULE in an ICS file).  
>  Is that observation correct?  I couldn't find a way to create such  
> events (non-RRULE reoccuring events) in the GUI, so it might be  
> obvious that Kronolith does not support this, but then I also might  
> be missing something.

This is correct. Kronolith, and the underlaying Horde_Date library, do  
not currently support these type of arbitrary occurrences.


>
> Thinking about this, I came to the conclusion that it would probably  
> be possible to simulate reoccurring events that to not follow a  
> clear repetition rule just by using the means that Kronolith  
> provides already. This could be done e.g. by having a daily  
> reoccurence and lots of exceptions to that, but that would be rather  
> ugly, IMHO.

Extremely ugly, and not really maintainable since EVERY day between  
two occurrences would have to be an exception.


> On a side note, I noticed that when IMP displays an email with an  
> invitation to a recurring (RRULE) event, there is a printf  
> placeholder "%x" in the event preview that is not filled.  See the  
> attached image for an example.  Is this a known bug or should I  
> report this to the bug tracker?

Yes, please report this bug in the tracker and be sure to include the  
version numbers of the installed applications.


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mike
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