I had a specific doubt regarding this, specifically the Recurrence of
the Events. Note, over here events and Appointments are synonymous.
Sometimes, the RRULE as it's stated can be like this:
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
which basically states that the event repeats for every last Sunday of
October every year. Other examples are :
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=2;BYMONTH=1;BYDAY=SU;BYHOUR=8,9;
BYMINUTE=30
which is for every Sunday in January at 8:30 AM and 9:30 AM, every other
year. So, as you can see things can get pretty complex with these rules.
And both of these examples are from the RFC2445 for iCalendar Objects.
My problem is when I convert to Appointment Objects with recurrences,
there is no current possible way of doing something like the previous
two examples, thus, I was wondering, on how to proceed along on this
situation?
One solution I came up with is to use the CalDAV REPORT method's
Calendar-Data expand property, which expands all the recurring events in
separate events i.e. say we have an event with
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL:[some-end-time]. When expanded it will give us
all the events for each day (Since it's daily) up until the end time we
specify. Thus, making it possible to easily store the event.
Now the range for which we need the the expanded events has to specified
in the query. Other than that, it would also mean, that we will have
more number events instead of one event which has a recurrence property.
Should I handle this differently or does this method work, i.e.
expansion of events?
Ankush Mishra
