Expanding the reocurance rule ???.

[Philip]

I need to be able to understand how the occurance rule works in the db as I need to be able to extract them to be able to create shift patterns.

 

01.//Creating a Weekly Recurrence rule
02.int interval = 2;
03.RecurrenceRange range = new RecurrenceRange();
04.
05.range.Start = Convert.ToDateTime(rdStartShift.SelectedDate);
06.range.EventDuration = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30);
07.range.MaxOccurrences = 3;
08.RecurrenceDay recurrenceDay = RecurrenceDay.Wednesday;
09.// _shifts.RecurrenceRule = new WeeklyRecurrenceRule(interval, recurrenceDay, range).ToString();
10.DayOfWeek startDayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.Tuesday;
11._shifts.RecurrenceRule = new WeeklyRecurrenceRule(interval, recurrenceDay, range, startDayOfWeek).ToString();

I need be able expand this data to add to a list of shifts so that i can set them in the calendar as the start time and end time of an angents shift. So I guess question is how do i expand the recurrance ruel.

[Nencho]

Hello Philip,

The recurrence rule that we use is the standard one and more information on the matter could be found here:
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

Indeed the implementation, usage, extension and the overall work with the Recurrence Rule is quite tricky. However I would suggest you to refer to the following forum thread as well, where a colleague of mine had provided a sample example on how this rule could be parsed and used:

http://www.telerik.com/forums/extract-appointments-for-day-as-list#5kmHNW9mGk-L19mHgsFmOA

Regards,
Nencho
Telerik