Toltec connector and exceptions to recurring events

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Thu May 26 17:13:18 CEST 2005


As far as I know writing of recurrent events has not been 100% implemented
in Toltec. There are many cornercases.
We cannot completley exclude that we still have flaws in the data format,
but they will only matter in rare cases. 

Bernhard

On Thursday 26 May 2005 16:10, Alan J Collison wrote:
> I was hoping someone could clarify the following observed behavior:
>
> Using Outlook with the Toltec connector and connecting to Kolab,
> I created a recurring event.  I then changed the location for
> one instance of the recurring event, leaving all the others the
> same.  Since the Kolab data format does not support RECURRENCE-ID
> (or some equivalent), I was expecting that perhaps the single
> series of recurring events would be broken up into 2 parts:
> the original series without the one exception and a new single
> event corresponding the the instance with the new location.
> I see no other way to handle this with the Kolab data format.
>
> However, what happened was that an exception was added for that
> one instance and no new event was created.  Looking at the
> data, it's apparent that Toltec is storing a RECURRENCE-ID (or equivalent)
> and information about the exception to the recurring series of events. So,
> in Outlook, everything looks o.k.  However, if I use another
> client which relies on the Kolab data, it would see something
> different I think: it would see a recurring series of events with
> a hole in the series on the date of the specified exception.
> In other words, the event ocurring on the day of the exception has
> effectively disappeared, even though that exception is not a cancellation
> of the event instance.
>
> So, what I am wondering is which of the following is true:
>
> 1. This is considered a problem/limitation in the kolab
>    data format
>
> 2. This is considered a problem in the behavior of the Toltec
>    connector
>
> 3. This is not considered a problem (and if so, why?) :)
>
> Alan
>
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