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Bug 304541 - Possible enhancement: ordinal weekday-based occurrences
Possible enhancement: ordinal weekday-based occurrences
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 317266
 
 
Reported: 2005-05-17 16:21 UTC by Dave Malcolm
Modified: 2009-07-23 05:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Dave Malcolm 2005-05-17 16:21:02 UTC 
A possible new feature: support weekday occurences.

A common pattern in some organisations is for events to occur on, say, the 3rd
Tuesday every month (for a monthly recurrence), or perhaps, the 2nd Wednesday in
October (for an annual recurrence)

So it might be a good future calendar feature (for both the UI and the
evolution-data-server code) to support recurrences of thse form:
- every [1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th] [Monday, Tuesday,...] [of every month, of
January, of February, ...]

I don't know yet if any other products (e.g. Outlook) support this kind of
recurrence mode.

[Of course there's also the US Presidential election which IIRC is the first
Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November, every 4 years, but let's not try
implementing that]
Comment 1 Dave Malcolm 2005-05-17 17:40:05 UTC 
I've just been told that Outlook can do both of these styles of recurrence.
Comment 2 Bearcat M. Sandor 2006-11-16 19:19:03 UTC 
This would be useful to me in my daily work. Korganiser can do this and it is the only feature i miss.
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2008-03-20 11:14:15 UTC 
You could do this already (it was there in 2005-05-17 too), just make a recurrence type "month(s)" and then you can choose "On the first Monday". With number of "Every" you can skip some months also. I'm closing this, but feel free to reopen if you think it's not the thing you did want.