Orphaned event among Recurring events

[Glenn]

I created a recurring event and it worked great until I probably deleted one of the in-between dates or something. Anyway, I am missing one date in a sequence and can not find a way to put another recurring event date in there. I even tried to add a non recurring event to fill the gap. eg. Jan 6 is recurring Jan 13 is not, Jan 20 all the way to March is recurring.
Do I have to delete and do it again? If I want to extend the dates do I need to delete them all and start again too?

Thanks
Glenn

[Barry]

Hi Glenn: try editing the event relating to the first date in the series – ensure the recurrence pattern details are still accurate (amend them if needs be) and try updating from there (apply to all).

Does that help?

[Glenn]

Thanks Barry,
Unfortunately, editing did not work.
I had tried just changing the text but that didn’t add the missing date. I tried to change the date to see if that would recreate it but that just removed all future events and made that event non-recurring. So I deleted that non-recurring event and just created a new event and that worked.
Bottom line editing the date does not work. One has to delete then add new. Better to have warning that editing to fill in dates does not work than to have to play around with it to find out.

Regards,
Glenn

[Barry]

Did you amend the dates at all? While not perfect, I found that if I created the following sequence:

* Dec 3
* Dec 10
* Dec 17

Then deleted only the event on Dec 10 and continued to edit the Dec 3 instance that if I incremented the recurring sequence end date by one day and saved (applying to all) then the Dec 10 instance was indeed regenerated.

While I do take the general point that perhaps this should happen without such a tweak, at the same time if a user has deliberately dropped an instance from a chain of events then I’m not sure we should blindly cause it to be regenerated when that may not be desirable.

[Glenn]

Thanks Barry,
I didn’t try that combination nor would I want any end user to do that.
It would be easier and more user friendly to just say they can not edit a recurring event.
I also agree you should not blindly regenerated a dropped date. However, you could have a selection box when changing any recurring event which would ask the question. While you are at it a warning if you are not in the first date of the events would also make this product more user friendly too.

Regards,
Glenn

[Barry]

That’s a great point and we’ll certainly consider it as something for inclusion in a future release. Thanks!

[Author]

Posts