Add bug report from Will Berriss

[email-reminder.git] / issues / i_129c9dee.cil

Summary: yearless events no longer work
Status: New
CreatedBy: Will Berriss <will@berriss.co.uk>
AssignedTo: Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>
Inserted: 2010-01-31T05:06:55
Updated: 2010-01-31T05:09:36

I am using email-reminder v0.7.5 in Ubuntu v9.04 (64-bit) and
have found that my entries for family birthdays that do not have a YEAR
do not work at all, but they did in the past.  Adding a year makes them
work, but I don't know the year so I don't want to add it in.

e.g. This fails:

 <event type="birthday">
  <name>Bob Smith</name>
  <day>21</day>
  <month>1</month>
  <year/>
  <reminders><reminder type="same day"/><reminder type="days
before">14</reminder></reminders>
  </event>

as does this:

 <event type="birthday">
  <name>Bob Smith</name>
  <day>21</day>
  <month>1</month>
  <reminders><reminder type="same day"/><reminder type="days
before">14</reminder></reminders>
  </event>

Can it be made to work as I don't really want to call it a yearly event.
I tend to edit the text file by hand rather than using the editor, as I
prefer that, so if it could cope with such things that would be great.

Anyway, I did try the yearly event instead as a test, and for this
I even used the GUI editor. Although the editor works, it was not obvious
it was working since when I entered the date 30-01 in the editor, the text
disappeared as soon as I hit enter or clicked elsewhere.  Anyway, it did
save the following entry at least:

<event type="yearly"><name>Hols</name><reminders><reminder type="same
day"/></reminders><day>30</day><month>01</month><year></year></event></events>

but that's not ideal as I like to give 7 days and 14 days notice of
this, hence I prefer to edit by hand. :)

Oh, in the editor it's not obvious that one should type 30-01 or 01-30
for the 30th January.

Anyway, could the birthday event type be made to work even when no year is
specified, like it used to? That would be great.