GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 739939
Make List View follow bottom left calendar range
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:37:47 UTC
I am using Evolution 3.10.4 from the Ubuntu Trusty repository. When I search my calendar, when in list view I would like to see all hits (or hits within a chosen range) both into the past and into the future. At the moment, only the selected month's hits are shown. I teach, and it is very helpful for me to be able to see the sequence of lessons taught to a particular class and plan the future trajectory. It would also be good if searches could be saved and recalled when needed. This would then implement something very similar to custom views as available in Outlook.
Thanks for a bug report. You are right that the List view holds only up to a month. Giving "complete" results is not doable due to performance constrains, imagine a recurring event which would last forever. You can use the arrows beside the search term to get to the next (or previous) event which satisfies the search criteria. Note, you can also get an overview of more than a month with the left-bottom calendar. If you give it more space (by dragging the slider both above the calendar and on the right from the calendar), then it'll show more months and highlight days with events accordingly. One can get a year overview with this. With respect of the saved searches, just use menu Search->Edit Saved Searches. Once you have any added, they will be shown at the bottom of the Search menu.
Thank you for your response. Your advice on saved searches will work fine for me. As for List visibility, I am not experiencing what you are describing. No matter how many months I have visible in the lower left mini-calendar overview pane, only one month is selected. Also, another bug is revealed when I click on the mini-calendar. Even with List selected as the view, when I click on the mini-calendar it reverts to a day view, rather than selecting the whole month and maintaining List view. What about allowing the user to manually set the early and late boundaries for a search?
Apologies, I've just observed the behaviour you were describing. Found terms are highlighted on the days they occur in the mini-calendar. I did not fully understand what you were describing. Would it be very difficult to include all the highlighted occurrences in the List view?
(In reply to comment #2) > Also, another bug is revealed when I click > on the mini-calendar. Even with List selected as the view, when I click on the > mini-calendar it reverts to a day view, rather than selecting the whole month > and maintaining List view. This is fixed in the current development version, which will be released as 3.14.0 he next spring, 2015. > What about allowing the user to manually set the early and late boundaries for > a search? That's the left-bottom calendar for, but... (see below) (In reply to comment #3) > Would it be very difficult to include all the highlighted occurrences > in the List view? Currently yes, unfortunately. I thought it'll be doable, just to select whatever user likes in the left-bottom calendar for the List View, but what I found didn't work, thus no, I'm sorry. I can transfer this bug into an enhancement request, if you wish, but it'll not be done any time soon, due to the need to renew the calendar widget (at least its way of dealing with selection, which has some more consequences).
Thanks for your confirmation of the selection bug. I look forward to the working version when it reaches Ubuntu's LTS. As for the request in comment #3, it might not need to be so difficult. We may be talking about two different kinds of highlighting. Currently, selected days are highlighted by changing the background colour. Only one month can be selected. To change this would be difficult as you say. However, there is another highlighting. All days with an appointment that matches the current search criteria have their number emboldened. Clearly, all the significant appointments in the visible mini-calendar range have been identified. It remains only to render them also in the List view. There's absolutely no need to select all the visible months to achieve this. By viewing the problem this way it might be very easy to implement as the code has already identified and filtered all the relevant appointments, but has only rendered them in the mini-calendar and not the List. Thank you again for your continued interest.
The current obstacle is the bottom-left calendar, the way it works. Otherwise I've nothing against to add an option "List View follows bottom left calendar range" to options, which would use whole shown date range from the bottom left calendar for the events to show.
That would be brilliant. It would allow Evolution users to emulate this very important function that Outlook allows.
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