Editing reccurrence for "This Instance Only" locks out recurrence editing

[Bill Gjestvang]

Binary package hint: evolution

Create a new Friday appointment that recurs weekly, forever. Go back in and change the recurrence from Friday to Saturday. Click "Save" on the appointment, and it'll ask if you want to save it for "This Instance Only" or "All Instances".

Alright, this is the first problem. It makes no sense to edit the occurrence for a single instance.

Select "This Instance Only", and save it. Now, when you go back in, the recurrence information is grayed out, and you can't change it. This is true of both the instance you changed or any other instance. You can see that the instance you changed has no recurrence info, but all others have the original recurrence info. But you can't change any of them.

Also, nothing actually changes day. Not even the one you told to.

You can regain access to the recurrence settings by changing the time for all appointments. But the state of the series never seems quite right again, and it seems to lead to cascading badness, possibly including crashes.

This was produced using a local calendar.

Running the current Hardy code:
evolution 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
evolution-common 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
evolution-data-server 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
evolution-data-server-common 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
evolution-data-server-dbg 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
evolution-dbg 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
evolution-exchange 2.22.3-0ubuntu2
evolution-exchange-dbg 2.22.3-0ubuntu2
evolution-plugins 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
evolution-webcal 2.21.92-0ubuntu1
evolution-webcal-dbgsym 2.21.92-0ubuntu1

[Bill Gjestvang (bgjestvang)]

Marking confirmed, because it is reproducible and has the information required to reproduce it.

[Bill Gjestvang (bgjestvang)]

Another observation here, indicating that things are messed up, is after you've played with this for a bit, you can stop and restart evolution, and sometimes the calendar looks much different. So what gets saved isn't the same as what it thinks it's saving.

[Bill Gjestvang (bgjestvang)]

I've found another way to produce this. Create a new weekly appointment. Change the date for any one instance (from the appointment page, not he recurrence page).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't confirm your own bugs, because you can confirm on your system doesn't mean it's not specific to your configuration

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> Alright, this is the first problem. It makes no sense to edit the occurrence for a single instance.

it does, you might have a weekly meeting or sport pratice at a fixed time but moved once to a different slot for example

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the steps you describe work correctly using the current intrepid version, does anybody else confirm the issue? it might already be fixed there

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

confirmed now and sent upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544813

[Bill Gjestvang (bgjestvang)]

I had tested this on 2 different systems with 2 different setups. I am upgrading one to intrepid now, to retest.

[Bill Gjestvang (bgjestvang)]

Still seeing this in intrepid.

evolution 2.23.4-0ubuntu1
evolution-common 2.23.4-0ubuntu1
evolution-data-server 2.23.4-0ubuntu1
evolution-data-server-common 2.23.4-0ubuntu1
evolution-exchange 2.23.4-0ubuntu1
evolution-plugins 2.23.4-0ubuntu1
evolution-webcal 2.21.92-1

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2008 - version not longer supported
change status to invalid