Editing repeating calendar events

• US 20060020889A1
• Filed: 07/26/2005
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Coppinger, Jodi L., Pavelski, Frank A., Levine, Brian J., Delay, David P.
• Granted Patent: US 8,850,330 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/710
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/963 Calendar or scheduling

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to recurring events in a C&S system and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for editing an event in a C&S system. In one embodiment, a method for editing an event in a C&S system can include specifying a recurrence range before permitting editing of the event. The method further can include disposing an in-line disambiguating message in a calendar dialog for the C&S system indicating whether an event instance or whether all instances of the event are to be edited in the calendar dialog. The method yet further can include limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&S system. Specifically, limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&S system can include permitting only an editing of a single instance for the event in response to an attendee exception.

Claims

1. A method for acting upon an event in a calendaring and scheduling (C&

S) system comprising specifying a recurrence range before permitting one of editing, deleting and changing an invitees to the event.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising disposing an in-line disambiguating message in a calendar dialog for the C&

S system indicating whether an event instance or whether all instances of the event are to be edited in the calendar dialog.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said in-line disambiguating message further indicates a date and time for a first instance of a recurring event regardless of which event instance for said recurring event is selected for editing.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said in-line disambiguating message further indicates a result of changing a date or a time for the event.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&

S system.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&

S system, comprises permitting only an editing of a single instance for the event in response to an attendee exception.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing separate actions for changing invitees to the event and editing the event.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising saving a copy of all outbound notices for the event in a folder in order to provide a paper trail for outbound workflow notices for the event.

9. A calendaring and scheduling (C&

S) system comprising;

C&

S application logic;

a recurring event editor coupled to said C&

S application logic; and

,

a user interface coupled to said recurring event editor through which a recurrence range must be specified before permitting one of adding, deleting or changing an invitee to an event in said user interface.

10. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for acting upon an event in a calendaring and scheduling (C&

S) system, said computer program product including computer usable program code for specifying a recurrence range before permitting one of adding, removing and changing an invitee to the event.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer usable program code for disposing an in-line disambiguating message in a calendar dialog for the C&

S system indicating whether an event instance or whether all instances of the event are to be edited in the calendar dialog.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein said in-line disambiguating message further indicates a date and time for a first instance of a recurring event regardless of which event instance for said recurring event is selected for editing.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein said in-line disambiguating message further indicates a result of changing a date or a time for the event.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer usable program code for limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&

S system.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein said computer usable program code for limiting actions in a user interface in response to limiting a core engine for the C&

S system, comprises computer usable program code for permitting only an editing of a single instance for the event in response to an attendee exception.

16. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer usable program code for providing separate actions for changing invitees to the event and editing the event.

17. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer usable program code for saving a copy of all outbound notices for the event in a folder in order to provide a paper trail for outbound workflow notices for the event.