Buggy behavior when trying to delete recurring time slots
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Allie
I've been using Time Slots to help me block out study time for my classes as a student - however, now that we're about to start a new term, I tried to delete all my existing recurring weekly time slots only to find that they would not delete as expected. When you try to delete a recurring time slot, it gives you two questions (do you want to delete just this time slot or all future ones, and whether or not to delete the contained tasks). I found that only some of these options actually work as expected, and none of them succeeded in stopping the timeslot from recurring.
Instead, I had to manually go into the future tasks and delete the "recurring" trait directly (with the little "x" button above the looping arrow) before deleting the task to stop it from propogating. In addition, after doing this the tasks scheduled remained on my google calendar, and I had to delete these manually as well. Overall, I've had a hard time with recurring timeslots and akiflow, and feel like their behavior needs another passover to make them more usable / less buggy.
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Stefania
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Hi everyone, this issue should be fixed in today's release.
Let us know if you encounter it again!
Thanks for your help:)
Stefania
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Stefania
Hi Allie, thank you so much for reporting this, we're looking into it!
Can you tell me more about this sentence "I found that only some of these options actually work as expected", what was happening exactly?
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Allie
Stefania I'm not able to play around with this at the moment, but from what I recall, only the options which deleted the single time slot (and not the recurring ones) worked, and even then it was inconsistent (sometimes wasn't deleted at all).
For reference, I am using Windows 11.
Stefania
Allie: Thanks for sharing Allie!
Once you change one single time slot that is part of a recurrence, it's not technically part of the recurrence anymore, so if you move all the others, it'll not move as well.
Do you think that this is what was happening?
We'll make it more clear in the app, removing the recurrence on that specific time slot.
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Allie
Stefania I see - perhaps that may be part of it, but I just tested and the "delete this and all recurring" method does not work as expected (even when unmodified), acting especially strangely when the slot you're deleting is not the original slot where the recurrence began. Hence why I think all of these behaviors should be tested for correct functionality.
Stefania
Allie: Hi Allie, we're testing the recurring slot, if you are able to reproduce the issue you're facing, could you share a video of it? It would be extremely helpful to debug :)
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Allie
Stefania there are quite a few bugs with this behavior, I'm sorry I don't have a full list as I've run into quite a few issues and my memory isn't perfect - however, I just made this video to demonstrate some of them: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bu9yXJYnKIkEos_wZaisn-N25oZDRRj0/view?usp=sharing
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Allie
Just an addendum to this: after performing the operations shown in the gif above, I found out that remnants of the slots were also left on my google calendar (despite these items being invisible from within akiflow).
On that note, I've also had issues in the past with deleting recurring tasks created in akiflow from my google calendar.
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Allie
Another update: After deleting those tasks in google calendar, I looked back in Akiflow and they are back! I did not recreate these time slots after the gif above. Yeah, this behavior is super bugged.
Stefania
Allie: Allie is this so helpful. Thank you so much! We can look into this more closely, I'll keep you posted.