There are some patent issues around the technology of implementing recurrent events. You can read about this here: http://67central.com/bc/2007/06/05/limitation-on-recurring-events-in-google-calendar/
Based on what you report, the issue has improved since 2 years ago, but this may be as far a Google is currently willing or able to go. Ray On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, petteri <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is really critical, any ideas? > > On 26 huhti, 13:36, petteri <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Over year of the first report of this bug and still this seems to >> exists. I reported this to Google UI but got nothing back. No >> confirmation whatsoever. >> >> Can this happen because I'm using Batch commands? I've noticed that >> e.g. Thunderbird Lightning Google calendar plug-in sends recurring >> events and they appear correctly in Google Calendar. I'm however doing >> exactly like in documentation and can only get first instance to >> appear. Please could you look into this ASAP. >> >> - Petteri >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Austin (Google)" <[email protected]> >> Date: Apr 8 2008, 6:46 am >> Subject: Only first instance of recurring event is shown on calendar >> >> view >> To: Google Calendar Data API >> >> Hi, >> >> I used your recurrence string and created the recurrence just as you >> did and I noticed what you were talking about, that only the >> firstrecurringinstance seems to be visible and all the subsequent ones >> aren't. But I think I realized what is going on, you should try, move >> the event to the second occurence of where you think you should be and >> click on that date (even tho it's not invisble there). This should >> trigger a reload and pop up that recurrence. >> >> So yea, I think this isn't a problem with the API, therecurring >> instances are all there. I think it is an issue of how quickly the >> calendar UI is refreshing events that are far out in the future (in >> this case it is one year away). This behavior also surfaces when you >> add this recurrence manually from the UI. Perhaps, you and I are >> moving too quickly down the calendar and it's not refreshing quick >> enough.I think you should report this to the Calendar Help Center >> (they handle UI issue there). Thanks for feedback!! >> >> Calendar Help Center -http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/ >> request.py?contact_type=fe... >> >> Austin >> >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:46 AM, petteri <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > When posting followingrecurringevent: >> >> > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/ >> > 2005/Atom' xmlns:batch='http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch' >> > xmlns:gCal='http://schemas.google.com/gCal/2005'><category >> > scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'term='http:// >> > schemas.google.com/g/2005#event'></category> >> > <entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'xmlns:gd='http:// >> > schemas.google.com/g/2005'> >> > <batch:id>25</batch:id> >> > <batch:operation type='insert' /> >> > <category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'term='http:// >> > schemas.google.com/g/2005#event'> >> > </category> >> > <title type='text'>foobar</title> >> > <content type='text'></content> >> > <gd:transparency value='http://schemas.google.com/g/ >> > 2005#event.opaque'></gd:transparency> >> > <gd:eventStatus value='http://schemas.google.com/g/ >> > 2005#event.confirmed'></gd:eventStatus> >> > <gd:where valueString=''></gd:where> >> > <gd:recurrence>DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080420 >> > DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080420 >> > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;UNTIL=21001231T000000;INTERVAL=1 >> > </gd:recurrence> >> > <gd:extendedProperty name='SymbianCalLocalUID' value='982' /> >> > <gd:extendedProperty name='SymbianCalGlobalUID' >> > value='P7FQc24W4EE5l818X2GVU1' /> >> > </entry> >> > </feed> >> >> > it seems that only first instance is visible on calendar view (UI) but >> > when clicking "edit event details"recurringevent looks like >> > correctly set. If I save event again (click some check box on and off >> > to trigger modification and hit "save"),recurringevent is now >> > correctly shown in UI (all the instances are visible). >> >> > Any ideas what could be the problem? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
