[Solved] How can I set a Daily Recurrence Rule With Interval to ignore weekends

[Tony]

Hi,

I am trying to create a Monday - Friday rotational schedule based on a three man team for a set month. 

Week 1: A,B,C,A,B
Week 2: C,A,B,C,A
Week 3: B,C,A,B,C
Week 4: A,B,C,A,B
etc, etc...

I know the pattern repeats every 4 weeks however each month can be the start of a new pattern meaning that the pattern does not continue from month to month and there are also holidays we need to consider ( I can Edit those individually).  Also, using the daily frequency rule I would create 1 entry/person  instead of 4 different entries/person.  The easiest way I felt in accomplishing this was to create a daily frequency with an Interval of three with an Abosolute start and end date. I created the following rule for 1 of the empoyees for the month of April.  

DTSTART:20080401T000000Z
DTEND:20080402T000000Z
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;
UNTIL=20080501T000000Z;
INTERVAL=3;
BYDAY=MO,TU,WE,TH,FR

I changed the DaysOfWeekMask to WeekDays in the SQLDatasources Inserting Event.    Here is my code bellow

        Dim recRuleConverter As New Telerik.Web.UI.RecurrenceRuleConverter
        Dim recRuleParamString As String = e.Command.Parameters("@RecurrenceRule").Value
        If recRuleParamString <> "" Then
            Dim recRule As Telerik.Web.UI.RecurrenceRule = recRuleConverter.ConvertFromString(recRuleParamString)
            Select Case recRule.Pattern.Frequency
                Case Telerik.Web.UI.RecurrenceFrequency.Daily
                    With CType(recRule, Telerik.Web.UI.DailyRecurrenceRule)
                        .DaysOfWeekMask = Telerik.Web.UI.RecurrenceDay.WeekDays
                        With e.Command
                            .Parameters("@RecurrenceRule").Value = recRule.ToString

                        End With
                    End With
            End Select
        End If

The code makes sense to me however when the schedule gets loaded, RadSchedule ignores the interval and displays an Item on each day Monday Through Friday.

I want to use the daily frequency interval but ignore saturday and sunday.  Is this a bug or is there another way of doing this.  I dont think the daily frequency rule was intended to be used that way, but would be a good enhancemnet

[Tony]

Anyone from telerik going to take a stab at this??

Thanks

[Dimitar Milushev]

Hello,

Unfortunately, RadScheduler currently uses either the DaysOfWeekMask or the Interval property of the DailyRecurrenceRule.

The problem is that it's not clear what should be the behavior of RadScheduler in both are set - if an occurrence of the appointment should appear in, let's say Saturday, according to the Interval rule, but the DaysOfWeekMask is to Weekdays only, should RadScheduler just skip the occurrence? Or should it show it in the next available day, skewing later occurrences forward (like in your case)?

A possible solution for your case would be to create a custom provider for RadScheduler and expand recurrences manually, making the necessary adjustments in process. You can find more information in the help documents - http://www.telerik.com/help/radcontrols/aspnet-ajax/?schedule_databindingimplementingaprovider.html.

Best wishes,
Dimitar Milushev
the Telerik team

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