[Calendar]: Add possibility to edit 1 event in a Recurring Event about apps HOT 26 CLOSED

@georgehrke: your ticket as well?

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Already on my calendar roadmap :)

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Is this Roadmap public somewhere? ;-)

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Not yet, but I'll publish it when we have a wiki

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Why not simply add tickets here and label them as enhancments and app:calendar.

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Being able to modify/delete one ofa series of recurring events is hardly an enhancement. It is a higly necessary feature.

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i would like to contribute to this issue. What would be a good starting point?

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First step is to get a working development setup.This is how I do - it has many steps,
but you end up having a good devekopment setup (I'm assuming you're on a Debian/Ubuntu like distro):

First fork owncloud/apps and owncloud/core to your own repositories from
within github: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo

1. Make a directory for ownCloud

    cd ~/
    mkdir owncloud
    cd owncloud

2. Then clone core and apps to your locally:

    git clone [email protected]:volkerpeters/core.git
    git clone [email protected]:volkerpeters/apps.git

3. Create a data directory

    mkdir data

4. Init 3rdparty module:

    cd core
    git submodule update --init

5. Create a writable apps dir for 3rdparty apps

    mkdir 3rdparty-apps

6. Link the the ownCloud apps into the core dir:

    ln -s ~/owncloud/apps ~/owncloud/core/owncloud-apps

7. Link the core directory to your web servers document root (assuming
   /var/www):

    sudo ln -s ~/owncloud/core /var/www

8. Make a basic config file config/config.php with the contents:

<?php
 define('DEBUG',true);
$CONFIG = array (
  'apps_paths' => 
  array (
    0 => 
    array (
      'path' => '/var/www/owncloud/apps',
      'url' => '/apps',
      'writable' => false,
    ),
    1 => 
    array (
      'path' => '/var/www/owncloud/owncloud-apps',
      'url' => '/owncloud-apps',
      'writable' => false,
    ),
    2 => 
    array (
      'path' => '/var/www/owncloud/3rdparty-apps',
      'url' => '/3rdparty-apps',
      'writable' => true,
    ),
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/home/tol/owncloud/data',
  'log_type' => 'syslog',
  );

9. Go to http://localhost/owncloud :)

You will probably get errors about wrong permissions when you load first time,
but with explanations to what to do.

Then make your changes in a separate branch and submit a pull request: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests

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finally managed to get development setup working (mostly fighting with Issue #1909 (owncloud/core#1909).
My first approach would be to make oc-calendar SHOW the changes of single events within a recurring event, which it can apparently already store. (a change of one single event of a recurring event gets synchronized from my android to my thunderbird lightning calender via owncloud without showing the change in owncloud).

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When synchronizing with android calendar this this leads to many problems as you can edit/remove a single event from a series. Will this problem be solved?

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Hello, any news about this issue ?

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not yet.

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It should be possible to delete one of the recurring events. At the moment all events are deleted. There should be a dialog to delete all or only the current event.

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What @timao wrote. One possible way to implement "delete one occurence" could be that internally the repeating event is duplicated, the first instance beind set with a last occurance prior to the deleted date, and the second instance with a starting date next to the deleted date.

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What @timao wrote. One possible way to implement "delete one occurence" could be that internally the repeating event is duplicated, the first instance beind set with a last occurance prior to the deleted date, and the second instance with a starting date next to the deleted date.

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There is a property in the ics standard called EXDATE. It's used to define exceptions from repeating events. We just need a nice way to implement this in the user interface. You can already remove one occurence of an event with your caldav client

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There is another thread with the same issue:
#320

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Today, I stumbled on the same problem. It is not possible to edit one individual event of a recurring event. Are there any news about a fix, as this feature is essential for a real life calendar e.g. of a family.

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Hello.
The issue is still present in OwnCloud 6, ie. deleting an occurrence in OwnCloud's WebUI deletes the whole series. Thunderbird's Lightning is able to delete single occurrences using EXDATE (through CalDAV).

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I know that +1 comments are not welcome, but this is a really annoying issue, and makes the web ui of the calendar not usable on a day to day base, where recurring events get cancelled or shifted all the time.

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Yes, this really is annoying on a day-to-day basis. Interestingly, when I change single instances of recurring events on the phone, as soon as the calendar is synchronised again, ownCloud does show it correctly. So perhaps only the UI for modifying (editing, deleting) of single instances of recurring events is missing?

Also, and I hope this is the right place for it, there's a thing that happens a lot with bi-weekly events and should be considered here. Sometimes, a bi-weekly event will not have one of its instances simply cancelled, but shifted to the next week. From that point on, your calendar is out of sync and your only choice is to move the whole series around. If you care about being able to go back and see what a particular day in the past looked like, that means adding a whole new series and adjusting the old series' end date. Quite cumbersome.

By the way, for anyone working on a calendar application it would be highly recommendable to get yourself an old Symbian Belle device and use it as your main calendar for a while. Nokia engineers really had a lot of fine details "down to a t" and Belle even made it look pretty.

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dup of owncloud/calendar#33

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Erm, how is this a duplicate?
This issue is about the fact that it must be possible to edit 1 event in the series. Issue owncloud/calendar#33 is about showing a warning. Those might be related, but they are still 2 different things. Or perhaps did you mean #33 ?

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@LeCoyote see my comment owncloud/calendar#33 (comment)

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@georgehrke I've seen it. Still, this issue is not only about deleting a single occurrence, but about editing as well, in which case the delete warning is not enough. Am I missing something?

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@LeCoyote You will have the same choice for editing for sure. (all, this and future, this particular one)

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@georgehrke Ah well, in that case, that's great. It's just that it isn't really obvious from the title. Looking forward to this!

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