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| JMP |
 Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:29 pm |
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First I want to say that the Repeat Events utility has a lot of flexibility and is very powerful. There is something that proves difficult though.
If I set up a repeating event, 'Help in Nursery at Church at 10:30am', every other Sunday for a year, then we're looking at 26 events.
Now, say I
1) am on vacation for one of those Sundays and delete that single occurrence.
2) have a friend who also helps in the nursery but she helps at 8:45am. She finds that she has another obligation and asks me switch times with her. So I move that single occurrence up to 8:45am.
3) and I have to adjust another single occurrence for some other reason.
That is all great, until, because I'm doing such a stellar job in the Nursery and the leader is stepping down, I'm asked to lead in his place which puts different requirements on me.
I 'Click to edit the whole series . . . ' and change 'Help in Nursery at Church' to 'Lead Nursery at Church'. All of the 'single occurrence' changes I made earlier are completely wiped out. Scrybe does not just change the event to reflect the title change, but changes every aspect of every occurrence of the event. This effectively restores 'Nursery' during my vacation, restores my switched time back to the normal time, and removes any other changes I made to individual occurrences.
This can be extremely difficult to work around and very important data can be permanently lost.
I've seen the same type of problem when formatting multiple cells in weak spreadsheet programs, so I wouldn't consider it a bug, but most of the better programs handle it.
Scrybe would have to flag changes in single occurrences and not allow 'edit the whole series' to modify those aspects of those occurrences.
Again, sorry for the length. |
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| davidg |
| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:28 pm |
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Joined: 01 Nov 2006
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JMP,
I have not noticed this issue with Scrybe while setting up calendars until this weekend when I was prepping to update recurring meetings for the remainder of the year. In my case I will have to delete all the meetings and re-enter them anew. If this feature was in place I would not have to do this. Thanks for another good suggestion.
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| Sabika |
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:44 am |
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When you click to edit the whole series, you are telling the application to overwrite all previous changes that you made to your series.
I understand your problem here but if it wasn't implemented the way it is right now, previous changes not being overwritten by this action would be buggy/ inconsistent behavior. This behavior was implemented after doing some research on how other applications behave.
We are going to evaluate a new definition for this after the beta. In the meanwhile your ideas and suggestions are most welcome. 
Sabika
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