Re: Problem with Modify an Instance of Recurring Events ? RFC2445 & 46

[Eric Busboom <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Nitin Shingne wrote:

> Question: Now how do I differentiate between the event on 8th & other
> events.	e.g. I now delete event dated 4th & all it's recurring
> instances, then how shall I avoid deleting the event dated 8th Oct.?

Nitin, 

I suspect that you will have to explicitly compare each of the occurrences
to the original event to determine that any of them has been modified. It
seems that SEQUENCE is only used to distinguish revisions of a component
within a single pair of UID and RECURRENCE-ID. I don't think it was
intended for the use you suggest. 

Specifically regarding deletes, why wouldn't you want to delete the
8th? I'd expect that the 8th is still part of the set of recurring events,
and if you are going to delete the set, you'd delete the 8th also,
regardless of any modifications you make to it.
 
If your recurring event is a daily status meeting ( I *hate* those) and
you come to your senses and want to cancel all of them, why wouldn't you
want to cancel the one that you had to move later in the afternoon?

If you intend to change the event on the 8th so something else entirely --
you decide to skip the status meeting and hold a going away lunch for the
people who left the company because of your dreadful status meetings, then
you should CANCEL the meeting on the 8th and schedule a new meeting on the
8th, with a new UID. 


eric.