[Chandler-dev] Stamping recurring events as tasks

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Andre,

> Hi, Is it "safe" to stamp instances of a recurring event as tasks? That
> is, does this basically work without issue? Has the dust settled on
> recurring events? (I guess those are two different questions.)

It works to stamp individual occurrences as tasks, but unstamping them
doesn't work well with the soon-to-be-obsoleted way we do sharing.
Grant mentioned a problem with occurrence stamping a few days ago but
I'm not sure what the problem is.

> Here's my simple scenario: I have a collection of birthdays, all are
> anytime yearly recurring events with alarms. When an alarm goes off some
> days before the birthday, my inclination is to drag-and-drop the
> upcoming instance into another collection (where most of "my" tasks
> reside) and then stamp this instance as a task. The point being to
> remind me to make a phone call or send a card or something.

Unfortunately for preview we aren't going to allow individual
occurrences to live in different collections; when you move an
occurrence of a recurring event to a different collection the change
dialog only gives you the option to move the whole series.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey