Calendar Date Selector Confusion

[Nat Katin-Borland]

The calendar date selector prevents the user from advancing to the next month if the next month doesn't have that date available. I believe I reported this problem once before because it threw a General Error. It doesn't throw a General Error anymore, which is good, but it still doesn't work. Today (Jan 31, 2012) is a great example. The date sector was set to Jan 31, 2012, so when I try to advance forward to February, nothing happens - I'm assuming this is because the date selector is constraining the user's options because February only has 29 days. The date selector feature can't prevent the users from advancing forward (or backwards) using the arrows, especially because it isn't obvious why the calendar won't advance. If you change the date selector to a date that exists in February, you can move forward as you would expect. The functionality of the advance arrows and the functionality of the date selector need to work independently of each other. The advance arrows only need to follow the time horizon selection - advance by day/week/month.

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

I meant to add that you see this problem on both the calendar and list views.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Jim, can you see if you can recreate this bug in various browsers, and if so, re-assign to ree ?

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

I know this was happening but I have been unable to recreate on any of the browsers IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox or safari.

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

I also couldn't recreate it, but perhaps I'm doing the wrong sequence of steps. Here's what I did:

http://www.screencast.com/t/lVPnoHwg

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

This was definitely happening yesterday on IE8, FF and Chrome. I had 3 users report the problem, plus Tom experienced it on the Global Staff Calendar. I'm not sure what has changed between yesterday and today...

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Nathaniel Katin-Borland
Support Specialist
Knowledge Management Initiative
KARL Support Team

Open Society Foundations - New York Office
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
Email: <email address hidden>
Phone: [phone]
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-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of JimPGlenn
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:57 AM
To: Nathaniel Katin-Borland
Subject: [Bug 924509] Re: Calendar Date Selector Confusion

I know this was happening but I have been unable to recreate on any of the browsers IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox or safari.

** Changed in: karl3
     Assignee: JimPGlenn (jpglenn09) => Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)

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Title:
  Calendar Date Selector Confusion

Status in KARL3:
  New

Bug description:
  The calendar date selector prevents the user from advancing to the
  next month if the next month doesn't have that date available. I
  believe I reported this problem once before because it threw a General
  Error. It doesn't throw a General Error anymore, which is good, but
  it still doesn't work. Today (Jan 31, 2012) is a great example. The
  date sector was set to Jan 31, 2012, so when I try to advance forward
  to February, nothing happens - I'm assuming this is because the date
  selector is constraining the user's options because February only has
  29 days. The date selector feature can't prevent the users from
  advancing forward (or backwards) using the arrows, especially because
  it isn't obvious why the calendar won't advance. If you change the
  date selector to a date that exists in February, you can move forward
  as you would expect. The functionality of the advance arrows and the
  functionality of the date selector need to work independently of each
  other. The advance arrows only need to follow the time horizon
  selection - advance by day/week/month.

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[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

We're no longer in January, I suppose.

Want to keep trying to reproduce it, or shall we close this?

--Paul

On Feb 1, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Nat Katin-Borland wrote:

> This was definitely happening yesterday on IE8, FF and Chrome. I had 3
> users report the problem, plus Tom experienced it on the Global Staff
> Calendar. I'm not sure what has changed between yesterday and today...
>
> --
> Nathaniel Katin-Borland
> Support Specialist
> Knowledge Management Initiative
> KARL Support Team
>
> Open Society Foundations - New York Office
> 400 West 59th Street
> New York, NY 10019
> Email: <email address hidden>
> Phone: [phone]
> http://www.soros.org/
> http://www.karlproject.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of JimPGlenn
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:57 AM
> To: Nathaniel Katin-Borland
> Subject: [Bug 924509] Re: Calendar Date Selector Confusion
>
> I know this was happening but I have been unable to recreate on any of
> the browsers IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox or safari.
>
> ** Changed in: karl3
> Assignee: JimPGlenn (jpglenn09) => Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924509
>
> Title:
> Calendar Date Selector Confusion
>
> Status in KARL3:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The calendar date selector prevents the user from advancing to the
> next month if the next month doesn't have that date available. I
> believe I reported this problem once before because it threw a General
> Error. It doesn't throw a General Error anymore, which is good, but
> it still doesn't work. Today (Jan 31, 2012) is a great example. The
> date sector was set to Jan 31, 2012, so when I try to advance forward
> to February, nothing happens - I'm assuming this is because the date
> selector is constraining the user's options because February only has
> 29 days. The date selector feature can't prevent the users from
> advancing forward (or backwards) using the arrows, especially because
> it isn't obvious why the calendar won't advance. If you change the
> date selector to a date that exists in February, you can move forward
> as you would expect. The functionality of the advance arrows and the
> functionality of the date selector need to work independently of each
> other. The advance arrows only need to follow the time horizon
> selection - advance by day/week/month.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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> Title:
> Calendar Date Selector Confusion
>
> Status in KARL3:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The calendar date selector prevents the user from advancing to the
> next month if the next month doesn't have that date available. I
> believe I reported this problem once before because it threw a General
> Error. It doesn't throw a General Error anymore, which is good, but
> it still doesn't work. Today (Jan 31, 2012) is a great example. ...

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

Go to March. Select, March 31 from the date selector. Then advance to April (there are only 30 days in April, so the 31st doesn't exist). I've done this several times now and am getting different results. Sometimes, nothing happens (like what we say yesterday) and sometimes it reverts back to February (what?!). You should be able to recreate this easily...

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Nathaniel Katin-Borland
Support Specialist
Knowledge Management Initiative
KARL Support Team

Open Society Foundations - New York Office
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
Email: <email address hidden>
Phone: [phone]
http://www.soros.org/
http://www.karlproject.org

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Paul Everitt
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:27 AM
To: Nathaniel Katin-Borland
Subject: Re: [Bug 924509] Re: Calendar Date Selector Confusion

We're no longer in January, I suppose.

Want to keep trying to reproduce it, or shall we close this?

--Paul

On Feb 1, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Nat Katin-Borland wrote:

> This was definitely happening yesterday on IE8, FF and Chrome. I had
> 3 users report the problem, plus Tom experienced it on the Global
> Staff Calendar. I'm not sure what has changed between yesterday and today...
>
> --
> Nathaniel Katin-Borland
> Support Specialist
> Knowledge Management Initiative
> KARL Support Team
>
> Open Society Foundations - New York Office
> 400 West 59th Street
> New York, NY 10019
> Email: <email address hidden>
> Phone: [phone]
> http://www.soros.org/
> http://www.karlproject.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf
> Of JimPGlenn
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:57 AM
> To: Nathaniel Katin-Borland
> Subject: [Bug 924509] Re: Calendar Date Selector Confusion
>
> I know this was happening but I have been unable to recreate on any of
> the browsers IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox or safari.
>
> ** Changed in: karl3
> Assignee: JimPGlenn (jpglenn09) => Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924509
>
> Title:
> Calendar Date Selector Confusion
>
> Status in KARL3:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The calendar date selector prevents the user from advancing to the
> next month if the next month doesn't have that date available. I
> believe I reported this problem once before because it threw a General
> Error. It doesn't throw a General Error anymore, which is good, but
> it still doesn't work. Today (Jan 31, 2012) is a great example. The
> date sector was set to Jan 31, 2012, so when I try to advance forward
> to February, nothing happens - I'm assuming this is because the date
> selector is constraining the user's options because February only has
> 29 days. The date selector feature can't prevent the users from
> advancing forward (or backwards) using the arrows, especially because
> it isn't obvious why the calendar won't advance. If you change the
> date selector to a date t...

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

Nat gave a comment with a very good definition on how to recreate.

[Balazs Ree (ree)]

I believe I have fixed this now. It is on branch ree-fix-calendar-date-selector-confusion, a pull is requested for testing on staging.

[JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)]

fixed