GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 200907
Add support for recurring tasks
Last modified: 2018-03-15 16:48:51 UTC
There is no support for recurring tasks right now. The event editor's recurrence page needs to be split off so that it can be shared by the task editor. Also, there is a "recurring task" icon that is not being used right now in the task list ETable.
How is this 1.0?
ask jp ;)
Because of the decision to remap 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.4, I'm going to be moving a large number of bugs around in the bugzilla. You can just search on 'body contains' 'Because of the decision to remap' and mark all as read. Please direct all questions about this change to evolution@ximian.com, not the bug. Luis
Bumping up the time estimate since this will involve some nasty XCS hacking too.
*** bug 212636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving rescheduled 1.2 bugs to future en masse; sorry if your bug didn't make the cut.
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This is marked future and blocks a 1.2 tracking. Unblocking. Please relink if appropriate.
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I think this is a really important feature to add, and will greatly help users switching from u know what ;-)
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A very requested feature. Targeting for 2.1
This is important! Also please allow for tasks that repeat X (units) after last completion, like cut hair 1 month after last haircut.
Marking as an enhancement.
*** Bug 314411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
sigh, at least retargetting from 2.3 to 2.5
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This feature has been requested for 7 years in a row, and after my wife using evolution for a year she is ready to go back to outlook if this feature doesn't materialize. :( She is an organization maniac. Please help. Thank you!
Bumping version to a stable release.
I second Roberto's comment. This feature is critical, and it's absence is a major annoyance.
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Please may we have repeating tasks :)
(In reply to comment #29) > Please may we have repeating tasks :) Patches welcome.
If there was a voting feature, I would use it. This prevents me from using Evolution for tasks, period.
After 9 years I think its time to see this issue raised to a higher level. Whether you call it a bug or a feature request or whatever, its high time that the problem was resolved! I think its sad that neither Evolution or Thunderbird / Lightening / Sunbird can seem to properly implement such a basic feature! I don't have the time or the talent for digging into this and fixing it, but I would donate a small amount of cash to create a bounty on solving this problem. Perhaps if a few others would join in that commitment we could coerce someone with the know how and time to do the work and bring Evolution a big step closer to a COMPLETE drop in replacement for Outlook?
(In reply to comment #32) > I don't have the time or the talent for digging into this and fixing it, but I > would donate a small amount of cash to create a bounty on solving this problem. > Perhaps if a few others would join in that commitment we could coerce someone > with the know how and time to do the work and bring Evolution a big step closer > to a COMPLETE drop in replacement for Outlook? I would also like to contribute to a bounty for this badly-needed feature! I just imported my To Dos from KOrganizer (which I would like to replace with Evolution were it not for this one feature) and noticed what looks to me like a recurrence icon next to my recurring tasks (the little notepad that every task has also has circular arrows on it). I can't edit the recurrence options or create new recurring tasks in Evolution, but it seems able to recognize the concept.... so, this feature must not be that hard to implement?
I also would like to contribute to a bounty for this 10 years old feature request.
> I think its sad that neither Evolution or > Thunderbird / Lightening / Sunbird can seem > to properly implement such a basic feature! You might want to look at the KDE Kontact suite, it has recurring tasks.
Recently I switched from Claws-mail to Evolution in order to be able to sync my contacts and calendars with my phone via ownCloud. The remaining task (no pun intended) is to sync my tasks for which I use cli app called Taskwarrior and therefore, naturally, considered Evolution. Now, seing that this bug is almost 15yrs old and seemingly without any hint to be fixed soon, I'll seriously consider to try KDE along with Kontact suite. :-(
Even you may consider this change particularly small, then please believe me, there had been required many other changes to have this as this small (like moving the recurrence tab into a separate reusable widget, which also meant quite heavy changes in the code). With respect of functionality, I tried to mimic what outlook.com OWA (Outlook Web Access) does, but not in exactly the same way. In Evolution, when user marks recurring task as completed, it's either moved to the next occurrence (and its status/percent completed and completed are reset), or it's just marked as completed (with those three properties updated accordingly). When moving to the next occurrence, the difference between the start date and due date is tried to be left as it is, if possible. The Due date can be reset to the next occurrence start when the first move would make it after it, or it can be even reset to the Start date in some cases. The difference from OWA is that the component has the Start date mandatory (they have it stored separately, only for the recurrence, but it's against iCalendar RFC 5545). Each calendar backend needs to advertise in the static capabilities that it supports recurring tasks, to be able to edit them in Evolution UI. There are currently only On This Computer and CalDAV backends which do that. I added the main functions in evolution-data-server, to offer it to others (like for GNOME ToDo folks), thus they can reuse the code and get consistent behaviour between evolution and those applications. Created commit_f5d9fa2ee in eds master (3.29.1+) [1] Created commit 8197757ed in evo master (3.29.1+) [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-data-server/commit/?id=f5d9fa2ee