On 3/21/02 1:29 PM, "Robert DeLaurentis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm confused as to why this refuses to work the way I expect it to.
>
> My goal: a custom Calendar view that displays only the next week's items.
>
> What I did: Create a custom view with two criteria, both of which must be
> true ('if all criteria are met'). The criteria: Date is less than 7 days
> from now; Date is greater than or equal to zero days from now.
>
> What I get: a host of items, many recurring, with original dates years in
> the past, and when I click on one to edit it, selecting this one, not the
> series, the date is usually way off in the future.
It's very badly implemented. It doesn't know how real people try to use
recurring events. The reason why it shows you all those totally irrelevant
recurring events is that it understands that there is at least one instance
(in fact many) of the recurrence which is less than 7 days from now (namely,
all the occurrences in the past plus any in the next 7 days) and there is at
least one instance (probably many) which is greater than 0 days from now
(all the occurrences to come in the future). It agglomerates all properties
of all occurrences to the single recurring event and says "Hey! This one has
both those properties you're asking for." In other words, it's been taught
to be stupid by developers who must know better but didn't have the time to
get it right, yet.
If you add one more criterion:
Recurrence is none
you will then get an accurate view if the true NON-recurring events coming
up in the next week. But there's no way to get just the recurring events
which have occurrences coming up next week, although the database actually
knows this information and could do it if it were told how.
This bad bug has previously been reported (by me), and they know about it.
It will be fixed some day. If it's really important to you, you'll have to
forego recurring events and make individual separate events.
I will be releasing a script soon which can turn a recurring event into
multiple non-recurring events according to the pattern you set for the
recurrence. Then you can easily make just one recurring event (as at
present), run the script, and use the custom view to find just what you want
next week.
>
> Is there a way to create a Custom view that only shows me the next 7 days?
>
> Where is the best place to learn more about creating custom views?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
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