Volker:

Regarding the following sentence:

> What I wanted in Evolution Calendar is the behavior in "b)" above, but my
> experiment shows that Evolution has "a)" and "b)" above.

I meant to say that "Evolution has "a)" and "c)" above"
That is, Evolution allows you to either delete one occurrence or all
occurrences, but does not have an option that deletes all future occurrences.

Thanks,
Paulo


On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 13:26 -0500, Paulo Cesar G. Costa wrote:
> Volker:
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I did what you suggested.
> 1 - created a "test" event starting Feb 5, 2020 (today)
> 2 - made it recurrent daily until March 3, 2020
> 3 - right-clicked the event on Feb 13, 2020. Two "delete" choices appeared:
>     i) Delete this occurrence
>     ii) Delete all occurrences
> 4 - I clicked on "ii)" above
> 5 - It deleted all occurrences, including those prior to Feb 13, 2020.
> 
> I then went to my phone and did exactly the same (Busy Cal on iPhone). When I
> clicked on "Delete" I was presented with 3 choices:
>     a) Delete only this event
>     b) Delete all future events 
>     c) Delete all 
> I chose "b)" above and it deleted only the occurences after Feb 13, 2020
> 
> What I wanted in Evolution Calendar is the behavior in "b)" above, but my
> experiment shows that Evolution has "a)" and "b)" above.
> 
> Let me know in case you get different results in Evolution Calendar.
> 
> All the best,
> Paulo
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 16:30 +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 05.02.2020, 09:18 -0500 schrieb Paulo Cesar G. Costa:
> > > Fellow Evolutioners:
> > > 
> > > When you try to delete or edit a recurring event in calendar,
> > > Evolution
> > > offers two options: 1) whether you want to delete/edit that specific
> > > event or 2) delete/edit all the occurences of that event.
> > > I would like to delete/edit only the future occurrences of recurring
> > > events, while keeping the ones that already happened for auditing and
> > > other similar purposes. Currently, I am having to manually
> > > delete/edit
> > > the future events one by one. Is there any way of deleting/editing
> > > only
> > > future occurrences?
> > 
> > You could make a test event in the calendar and then do 2). Perhaps
> > this does what you want, and it's just worded mistakably.
> > 
> > In my smartphone (the app aCalendar+), there is the choice, when
> > deleting, "this and future events". So it seems to be part of the
> > CalDAV protocol.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Volker
> > 
> 
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