Enhancement: Recurring Events #150
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If you can point out to me what you think needs to be done to implement this and are willing to accept a PR I can try to implement this next week or so |
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If it is supported like you say it should already work when you sync from org to the calendar. Maybe you can check that out. Then you can check tho org-caldav.el to add the code for the other way round, from the remote calendar to org. That's it. |
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I guess one difficulty with that feature is that
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So what is the status on this? @mgttlinger @grauschnabel |
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@GAhlekzis I played around with this but was afraid to fuck up our company calendar (to some extent due to little experience with elisp) and had no good solution to the problems I mentioned so I stopped working on it. |
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I'm not working on this, I use |
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@grauschnabel can you explain how that works exactly? |
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Recurring events are supported by ox-icalendar, but this only handles the org->cal direction. The other direction is simply not implemented. This would need code that converts RRULE:FREQ to the proper Org timestamp syntax. If you take a look at for instance https://www.kanzaki.com/docs/ical/rrule.html you might guess that this isn't straightforward at all, unfortunately... |
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But at least partly icalendar.el has implemented this, right? https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-release/blob/master/lisp/calendar/icalendar.el#L2117-L2143 |
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Indeed, it generates diary s-expressions for this using diary-float, diary-block etc. I think this should fit right into org, we don't have to make Org timestamps from these, although that would make syncing easier... |
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Hi, I've tested this quite a bit. Syncing from org to ical is a built-in functionality of the org export, but you'll have to override |
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I've opened a PR for this in case anyone wants to try it out. Please back up your files before trying this. :P #216 |
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There's also #217 which has been merged in a branch https://github.com/Thaodan/org-caldav/tree/thaodan/personal_merger with a few additional fixes. |
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I was so happy to see that org-caldav worked much better than org gcal just to discover that I get no recurring events from the remote :(. Would it be possible to implement it as org-gcal does? When a remote events is recurring we create a subheading and generate occurences with a limit of back and forward (2 weeks back 1 month forward)? |
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I'm trying out https://github.com/Thaodan/org-caldav/tree/thaodan/personal_merger, and I can't seem to push my org recurring event to (straight-use-package '(org-caldav :git git :host github :repo "dengste/org-caldav" :fork (:repo "Thaodan/org-caldav" :branch "thaodan/personal_merger")))I can see this event in (setq-default org-caldav-show-sync-results t
org-caldav-debug-level 2)
(org-caldav-sync)Then check the Click to expand |
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I have opened a new PR for this: #308 It supports both repeating events and todos. I initially started by trying to adapt the sexp approach, but while I found this works for Cal->Org (via icalendar.el), I found that sexp timestamp export seems to be broken in Org->Cal (ox-icalendar). So I switched to just using non-sexp repeating timestamps, which I think is preferable in most cases anyways. I have a little more cleanup to do (tests and documentation) but it should work. Planning to merge it in the coming weeks. In the meantime any testing/feedback is welcome. Longer term I think sexp timestamps are the right way to handle more complex repeaters (e.g. with UNTIL or COUNT), but this needs to be fixed upstream in ox-icalendar first, and there may also be additional complications in the case of TODOs (how to update the sexp timestamp when marking a repeating task as completed). |
In case you had not seen this, there are two items in the org-mode FAQ that provide solutions to this: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#diary-sexp-in-org-files and https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#org-class #308 works nicely for me, thanks! |
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RRULE:FREQentries in ical used for recurring events are currently not used by org-caldav which limits it's usability quite a bit (at least for me).It seems that both icalendar.el and ox-icalendar.el have this functionality implemented, so I guess implementing this should not be too much work.
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