More thoughts on recurrence rules...
1. I can't determine the purpose of the following fields: RecurrenceRule.bySetPosList RecurrenceRule.weekStart RecurrenceRule.xName They don't seem to be used anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. 2. The RecurrenceInfo.recurrenceDateTimes and RecurrenceInfo.exceptionDateTimes fields should not be used. They seem to duplicate the information found in RecurrenceRule and there is no way of knowing what the field contents mean. For example: what time zone is the date/time referencing? The server's or the user's? What calendar does the field represent? I'd like to deprecate those two fields. 3. I'm thinking there might be a need to add a recurrenceTimeZone field to RecurrenceInfo. The work I'm doing right now enables you to specify a time zone at run time (the user's time zone for example), and if you don't specify one then the server's time zone is used. I'm wondering if there would be a need to set up a recurrence referenced to a certain time zone. Comments are welcome. -Adrian |
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 11:44 -0700, Adrian Crum wrote:
> More thoughts on recurrence rules... > > 1. I can't determine the purpose of the following fields: > > RecurrenceRule.bySetPosList No idea > RecurrenceRule.weekStart Could be used to determine the Week start day, but after adding localization probably will be redundant. > RecurrenceRule.xName No idea What about adding a new description field to RecurrenceInfo (and may be to RecurrenceRule)? This field will be useful when searching/choosing a recurrence from recurrence lookup screen. I got this idea while creating the lookup screen for recurrence... > They don't seem to be used anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. > > 2. The RecurrenceInfo.recurrenceDateTimes and > RecurrenceInfo.exceptionDateTimes fields should not be used. They seem > to duplicate the information found in RecurrenceRule and there is no way > of knowing what the field contents mean. For example: what time zone is > the date/time referencing? The server's or the user's? What calendar > does the field represent? > > I'd like to deprecate those two fields. +1 > > 3. I'm thinking there might be a need to add a recurrenceTimeZone field > to RecurrenceInfo. The work I'm doing right now enables you to specify a > time zone at run time (the user's time zone for example), and if you > don't specify one then the server's time zone is used. I'm wondering if > there would be a need to set up a recurrence referenced to a certain > time zone. +1 Bilgin > > Comments are welcome. > > -Adrian > > |
Bilgin,
If you have the time, could you take a look at the patch I submitted to Jira? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1946 -Adrian Bilgin Ibryam wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 11:44 -0700, Adrian Crum wrote: >> More thoughts on recurrence rules... >> >> 1. I can't determine the purpose of the following fields: >> >> RecurrenceRule.bySetPosList > No idea > >> RecurrenceRule.weekStart > Could be used to determine the Week start day, but after adding localization probably will be redundant. > >> RecurrenceRule.xName > No idea > > What about adding a new description field to RecurrenceInfo (and may be > to RecurrenceRule)? This field will be useful when searching/choosing a > recurrence from recurrence lookup screen. I got this idea while creating > the lookup screen for recurrence... > > >> They don't seem to be used anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. >> >> 2. The RecurrenceInfo.recurrenceDateTimes and >> RecurrenceInfo.exceptionDateTimes fields should not be used. They seem >> to duplicate the information found in RecurrenceRule and there is no way >> of knowing what the field contents mean. For example: what time zone is >> the date/time referencing? The server's or the user's? What calendar >> does the field represent? >> >> I'd like to deprecate those two fields. > > +1 > >> 3. I'm thinking there might be a need to add a recurrenceTimeZone field >> to RecurrenceInfo. The work I'm doing right now enables you to specify a >> time zone at run time (the user's time zone for example), and if you >> don't specify one then the server's time zone is used. I'm wondering if >> there would be a need to set up a recurrence referenced to a certain >> time zone. > > +1 > > Bilgin > >> Comments are welcome. >> >> -Adrian >> >> > > |
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