Bug when using "Repeat To Do"?

[lk]

Hello!

There seems to be a problem with the "Repeat To Do" funtion - if I change the repeat interval from its default, the changed number (of days, months, years) won't be remembered.

Steps to reproduce this issue:

• Create a new "To Do" item
  
• Give it a subject and check "Repeat To Do"
  
• Change the "Repeat every" field to something different than the default value of 1 (e.g. 6). Click on "Ok".
  
• Double-click on the just created To Do: The "Repeat every" field shows a value of 1, no matter which value you have put into the field in step 3.

If you change "Day(s)" to "Month(s)" in step 3 above, save this value and reopen the To Do item afterwards, the repeat values is set to "Day 3 of every 1 months" (!) Is there something wrong with this (very handy) Repeating To Do function?

And the caption of the buttons "EPIM Today" and "To Do" in the left column is truncated by about half of a letter width:

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(EPIM Pro 4.53 on a fully patched Windows XP SP 3 32 Bit, German version)

[lk]

Is noone able to reproduce this behavoiur? I just tried it with a fresh EPIM Pro installation on a virtual machine and the problem is 100% reproducible, even with a new database. Can anyone who uses this feature confirm this?

[admin]

Yes, we were able to reproduce the issue. Will fix it in the next minor version. Thanks for letting us know about it!

[lk]

Yes, we were able to reproduce the issue. Will fix it in the next minor version. Thanks for letting us know about it!

Glad to read this. Thank you.

[lk]

Just want to report that v4.54 seems to have fixed both issues! Thank you!

[lk]

Unfortunately, there are still some bugs when using "Repeat To Do". Steps to reproduce them:

• Create a new To Do entry and give it a subject
• Check "Start time"
• Check "Repeat To Do"
• Click on "Advanced", choose "Weekly", "Regenerate new to do 6 week(s) after the completion date" and uncheck any checked weekday.
  
  The radio button "Regenerate" is now unchecked, which is at least confusing - why does the behaviour of the "To Do" change if I uncheck the weekday option?
  
  
• Choose "Regenerate..." again and click "Ok" twice - the To Do item will be created.
• Reopen this freshly created To Do and change its start time to something different, click "Ok" and reopen it again.
  
  The "Regenerate..." option is again lost and "Recur every 1 week(s)" is checked.

It seems that under some circumstances the "Repeat To Do" options are reset to their defaults.

(EPIM Pro 4.54 on Windows XP SP3)

lk

[admin]

Confirm both of the problems, will be fixed in the next version. Thanks.

[hannibal_barca_1974]

The way you have explained your problems ilk makes this thread a superb future reference. Thanks.

[lk]

Confirm both of the problems, will be fixed in the next version. Thanks.

Unfortunately this bug is still present in v5.0 RC2!

[admin]

It turned out these were not bugs but intentional behavior.
1-st issue. Weekdays belong to the "Recur every" section and when you either check or uncheck days, the focus is being transferred to this section.
2-nd issue. As the start date changes so does the recur pattern, which is now set to repeat every 1 week (if you do not go to the Advanced dialog).