"Find Event" search box cannot locate events that "repeat"

[sukhoi.b...@gmail.com]

Hi,

This is a very, very old bug present in all versions of Lightning/Calendar Extension, that affects the "find event" search mechanism.



To replicate the bug:

1. Create an event title "MY EVENT THAT REPEATS" set for 10/10/2015 that "repeats" monthly until 10/10/2030.

2. Press "Find Events" button. A search panel opens.

3. In such panel, set the search to "All Events" in the pull down menu

4. Fill the search box with MY EVENT THAT REPEATS

5. In the panel result area is shown one single entry of MY EVENT THAT REPEATS with the date of 10/10/2015. That is the first problem: it does not shown all monthly entries until 2030, but one single entry.

6. Change the search to "All Future Events" in the pull down menu. Second problem: no entry is shown! Where are the monthly entries until year 2030?

Bottom line: search box is not capable to show all recurrences for events that repeat, but only the first entry of such event is searchable.

[WaltS48]

Well, the "Find Events" column headings are "Title", "Start" and "End"
in my calendar tab.

Creating your test event with a start date of 10/10/2015 shows the event
starting on 10/10/2015 and ending on 10/10/2015 in "Find Events". I
don't see any column heading that can be added to show "Recurring" events.

I think the calendar is working as designed and don't see a bug here.

Tip: Don't set the end date to 10/10/2030. It populates every day of the
calendar from 10/10/2015 to 10/10/2030 with the event and freezes the
application.

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Not what the OP was asking, just a Request For Clarification on your
Hint: What should the End Date be set to? I normally use "open ended"
(whatever that maps to) for Repeat entries such as birthdays.

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[WaltS48]

What was the OP asking?

Looked to me like it is, why doesn't my recurring monthly event created
10/10/2015 and recurring until 10/10/2030 appear in "Find Events".

The "Find Events" search doesn't have the capability to show recurring
events. There is no column header for recurring events.

In the original event the start and end date were 10/10/2015 and I
selected "All day event" since the OP didn't specify a start and end
time in their original steps to reproduce.

When I edited all occurrences to end on 10/10/2030, it appeared daily
from 10/10/2015 until 10/10/2030 and froze my application.

With Thunderbird closed I renamed the calendar-data folder in my profile
to bad-calendar-data then restarted Thunderbird to recreate the
calendar-data folder and recovered from there. :)

I would leave the end date at the default 10//10/2015.

I'm not in the habit of creating recurring events, and probably would be
deleting any occurrence from 2015 to 2019 when they occurred in this
scenario.

Any help you can provide the OP would be welcome.

[WaltS48]

On 4/25/20 3:07 AM, sukhoi.b...@gmail.com wrote:

See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543716>

[sukhoi.b...@gmail.com]

I do not think this is a "normal" behavior as somebody said. If there are "future" events in the calendar, and the event match what was filled at the "find events" search box, then it shall be shown in the list, regardless if it is a single occurrence event, or if it is an event that repeats, that was set in the past.



The event of my example, it is 15 minutes long, and repeats every month from 2015 to 2030. It is not one single event that starts on 2015 and ends on 2030.


I posted this info/bug at Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633107

There you can see some screens on how the event that repeats is set, and what is shown by "Find Events".

[sukhoi.b...@gmail.com]

More details and screens:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633107