Re: [Evolution] Searching in the calendar.

[RZ <news4r gmail com>]

Thanks for the information.
So let's consider it's a bug & let's hope Evo will 'evolve' in a better way for searching in the calendar!



On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:28:21 +1000
Nick Jenkins <nickpj gmail com> wrote:

> > I don't know if I'm missing something but when a search an event on
> > the calendar, Evo shows no results. I have to manually scroll the
> > months until I find the keyword I was looking for, meaning that if an
> > event was 10 years ago I have to scroll 12x10 pages before I get to
> > the search results.
>
> Yes, I've run into this too, knowing that there was a matching
> appointment in my calendar from many months ago, and having to scroll
> through 6+ screens looking for the one visible/matching appointment that
> matches the text I typed in the "search" box.
>
> The basic usage scenario is outlined in
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230449 - "calendar search
> interface is less useful than it could be". The dialog box solutions
> discussed in that bug from 2002 sounds a bit out-of-date now, but the
> same search problem remains.
>
> In terms of a more modern design, perhaps ideally there should be
> "previous" and "next" buttons on either side of the "search" box, when
> in the day/week/month calendar views, that would jump to the
> previous/next match? Ideally, should probably also jump to first match
> found on pressing the enter key.
>
> > If you want a list view, pick it in the toolbar.
>
> Ideally the user probably should not have to switch views in order to
> search. (e.g. I set the views how they like them and then leave them
> alone, and I suspect the majority of users do the same).
>
> But, leaving that aside, I have just tested it, and the search in the
> list view seems to have a bug, so that when searching it only finds
> matches within the current month.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> * Switch to calendar. (View -> Window -> Calendars)
> * Switch to month view. (View -> Current View -> Month View)
> * Add an appointment on 4-May-2010 called "RBA interest rate decision".
> * Add another appointment on 1-June-2010 also called "RBA interest rate
> decision".
> * In the "summary contains" search box, type "RBA" and press enter.
> * Scroll the calendar and observe that that 2 appointments added
> previously match / are visible.
> * Select a date in May (e.g. click on 6-May-2010, by going "Go To -> May
> -> 2010 -> 6")
> * Go View -> Current View -> List view.
> * Observe that only one item appears in the list view, not two. The one
> that appears is the one from 4-May-2010.
>
> Above happens on Evo 2.28.1, with a local calendar.
>
> The list-view only matching results in the current month is a known
> problem, and is logged as
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612602 - "After searching in
> Calendar, 'List View' button does not work" ... although "'List View'
> searches only work for appointments in current month" is possibly a
> better summary.
>
> As a result of the above 2 bugzilla entries, it appears that there is
> currently no really satisfactory way to search the calendar over a wide
> range of time (e.g. the 10 years of appointments I have in my calendar).
> Searching over a single month or less of time is fine, but for a longer
> timeframe Evo's calendar search currently does not scale.
>
> -- All the best,
> Nick.
>
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RZ <news4r gmail com>