"You are changing a recurring event" incorrect message
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:35 pm
I created the world's most awesomest repeating calendar for our mutual activities. When our mutual unexpectedly changed from Tuesday to Thursday, I dragged and dropped 8 months worth of those events to their new dates on Thursday.
I guess I should have realized I was not, in fact, moving the recurrance, but that a new instance of the item was being created, while the recurrance was ignored for it's previous date and continued the next year. Anyway.
Now we have changed our conducting rotation, and I need to change the wording on those dates. Here's how it works:
1) I click the item to edit
2) It says "You are changing a recurring event" (when in fact I am actually changing the new, moved instance of the recurrance.
3) If I tell it to edit "the entire series", the moved instance's title is not affected, while the recurrence (now into next year) is.
4) If I tell it to edit "only this event", I'm still being told this is a recurrence with recurrence options, and I can edit the title, but only for the moved instance.
I suppose this is righteous punishment for my laziness, but this is not intuitive messaging, imo. Editing a moved instance should not give the user the option to edit the entire series, since the moved instance is not truly a recurrance.
I guess I should have realized I was not, in fact, moving the recurrance, but that a new instance of the item was being created, while the recurrance was ignored for it's previous date and continued the next year. Anyway.
Now we have changed our conducting rotation, and I need to change the wording on those dates. Here's how it works:
1) I click the item to edit
2) It says "You are changing a recurring event" (when in fact I am actually changing the new, moved instance of the recurrance.
3) If I tell it to edit "the entire series", the moved instance's title is not affected, while the recurrence (now into next year) is.
4) If I tell it to edit "only this event", I'm still being told this is a recurrence with recurrence options, and I can edit the title, but only for the moved instance.
I suppose this is righteous punishment for my laziness, but this is not intuitive messaging, imo. Editing a moved instance should not give the user the option to edit the entire series, since the moved instance is not truly a recurrance.