[Dev] Re: Recurrence discussion

[Lisa Dusseault]

>
> What I was envisioning for 4) (but didn't elaborate clearly) would be
> that our data model act as if indefinitely recurring events more than,
> say, 3 years in the future don't exist.  We would preserve the fact 
> that
> they're indefinitely recurring, all the relevant occurrences would be
> updated nightly and exist as fully fleshed out first class items.  So 
> in
> my picture of 4), the query system wouldn't need to have any semantic
> understanding of recurrence.

Wouldn't that provide the wrong query result for any view that doesn't 
show a
limited time range?  For example, a summary/table view should only
show recurrence masters and possibly recurrence exceptions

If I understand correctly, when a user does a contains search on 
calendar
events, we would show a search results pane that only shows recurrence
masters, not recurrence instances.   This is not what iCal does, 
however,
iCal shows regular recurrence  instances in the search results pane.  I
can imagine showing exceptions (particularly if the recurring meeting
exception contains the search term and the recurring meeting master
does not) but I think our plan is not to show unexceptional instances.

Lisa