Bug 1619854 - Recurring calendar event doesn't recur
Summary: Recurring calendar event doesn't recur
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Milan Crha
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-08-21 22:14 UTC by Stewart Smith
Modified: 2019-05-28 22:12 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-05-28 22:12:52 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
The offending calendar invite (5.93 KB, text/calendar)
2018-08-21 22:14 UTC, Stewart Smith
no flags Details

Description Stewart Smith 2018-08-21 22:14:52 UTC
Created attachment 1477696 [details]
The offending calendar invite

Description of problem:
A Calendar invite for a recurring event sent from Lotus Notes (or similar) is meant to recur. It does not. Instead, it only displays once.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.28.5 (3.28.5-1.fc28) 

How reproducible:
100% - importing the calendar invite into a new calendar also doesn't work

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import attached ics calendar
2. See that it appears on April 4th 2018
3. See that it doesn't recur afterwards

Actual results:
Get up 2hrs earlier than you needed to, as the cancellation of the earlier calendar event didn't work either.

Expected results:
Usual time lost due to meeting rather than 3x that.

Additional info:
I have edited out the sensitive data from the ics file, hopefully correctly.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2018-08-22 07:17:53 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. The component contains RECURRENCE-ID, which means, at least for evolution, that it doesn't reference a recurring event, but one instance of that recurring event only. The exact line is:

   RECURRENCE-ID;RANGE=THISANDFUTURE:20180403T210000Z

while the RANGE parameter is meant to overcome that [1], it is not used by the libecal/evolution that way. When you remove the RECURRENCE-ID before importing, you get the whole series.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.2.13

Comment 2 Stewart Smith 2018-08-22 09:18:41 UTC
(In reply to Milan Crha from comment #1)
> Thanks for a bug report. The component contains RECURRENCE-ID, which means,
> at least for evolution, that it doesn't reference a recurring event, but one
> instance of that recurring event only. The exact line is:
> 
>    RECURRENCE-ID;RANGE=THISANDFUTURE:20180403T210000Z
> 
> while the RANGE parameter is meant to overcome that [1], it is not used by
> the libecal/evolution that way. When you remove the RECURRENCE-ID before
> importing, you get the whole series.
> 
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.2.13

Would this be considered a bug in the libecal/evolution code and one that should be fixed in stable versions? This is (however unfortunate it is) the "iCal" being produced by a product.

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2018-08-22 09:46:17 UTC
Yes, I'm thinking of moving this upstream, but I'm also afraid how many changes it'll require and how many things would eventually break, because it seems to me that many parts of the code (both on the evolution-data-server and evolution itself) consider anything with RECURRENCE-ID as an instance, not talking that it cannot work with it properly, it ignores/strips/replaces the RANGE value: 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/blob/master/src/calendar/libecal/e-cal-component.c#L3824

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:02:51 UTC
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