I have a custom XPage java REST api in Lotus to handle reservations, everything is going well so far.
I have one weird "problem" though, whenever I update a meeting, the room name (like Test room/Site) is being appended to the LOCATION in iCalendar string.
The way I'm updating appointments is by finding the entry in user's calendar (NotesCalendar.getEntryByUID), then I call NotesCalendarEntry.read() to get the iCalendar string, I then manually replace values of certain iCalendar fields, like DTSTART to the ones I wish to update (I'm only updating DTSTART, DTEND and SUMMARY). Finally I call NotesCalendarEntry.update(string) to update the event.
It works well, however with each update, the LOCATION field grows bigger and bigger, because the room name is being constantly appended to it, and finally it looks like:
LOCATION: Test Room/Test SiteTest Room/Test SiteTest Room/Test Site
etc.
Am I doing something wrong? How can I prevent this? I don't want to clear the location field each time, because users can put their own location and I'd like to keep it (in that case room name is also being appended to the original location text)
Code:
NotesCalendar cal = session.getCalendar( session.getDbDirectory( session.getServerName() ).openMailDatabase() );
NotesCalendarEntry calEntry = cal.getEntryByUNID(apptUNID); // apptUNID is taken from http json payload
String iCalE = calEntry.read();
// 20190326T160000Z
String dStart = DateUtil.formatICalendar(dtStart);
String dEnd = DateUtil.formatICalendar(dtEnd);
iCalE = iCalE.replace("\\n", ""); // I added this because same was happening to literal \n (not actual line breaks)
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(iCalE);
int StartIndex = iCalE.indexOf("BEGIN:VEVENT"); // DTSTART is also in BEGIN:VTIMEZONE so we need to exclude that
int tmpIndex = iCalE.indexOf("DTSTART", StartIndex) + 7; // 7 = len of DTSTART
int LineBreakIndex = iCalE.indexOf('\n', tmpIndex);
if(iCalE.charAt(LineBreakIndex-1) == '\r')
LineBreakIndex--;
sb.delete(tmpIndex, LineBreakIndex);
sb.insert(tmpIndex, ":" + dStart); // start date
tmpIndex = sb.indexOf("DTEND", StartIndex) + 5;
LineBreakIndex = sb.indexOf(Character.toString('\n'), tmpIndex);
if(sb.charAt(LineBreakIndex-1) == '\r')
LineBreakIndex--;
sb.delete(tmpIndex, LineBreakIndex);
sb.insert(tmpIndex, ":" + dEnd);
calEntry.update(sb.toString());
calEntry.recycle();
Also, can I safely assume that iCalendar lines are always ended with \r\n ? (they currently are, I had some problems with that but I figured it out, I'm not sure if I can safely look for '\r\n' though)
I dont use ical4j because I'm literally only modifying 2 or 3 fields and nothing else.
Related
I have this block of code in SSJS that I'm doing some field validation stuff:
thisDoc is a NoteXspDocument
fld = the name of a field
var thisValue = thisDoc.getValue(fld);
print("Check Text = " + thisValue);
print("Is is a Date " + (thisValue === Date))
when I run it the log has this:
Check Text = 09/10/15 12:00 PM
Is is a Date false
In this code I do not know what the datatype is of the fld which is a field name. I check the backend document and get the NotesItem.Type() and this field is of type text 1280 in the backend, but the NotesXspDocument has a date. I need to determine what the data type is thisValue sure acts like a NotesDateTime object, but I'm doing something wrong somewhere.
I think the issue might be the difference between a NotesDateTime and a java.util.Date but they drive me up the wall.
Further Edit --
The problem is that I have an Array of field names var Fields:Array that I then loop through and get fld = Fields[n] so when I get the value of the field it could be anything Text, Date, Number so when I do var thisValue = thisDoc.getValue(fld) or thisDoc.getItemValue(fld) I need to figure out what kind of value I have. I guess I could put the getItem..... inside a try until I find one that works but that seems like a less than optimum solution.
Try instanceof Date.class. What you've got is not checking the data type of thisValue against the underlying class, instead it's checking the object itself.
Because the field that I am retrieving can be just about anything I use
var thisValue = thisdoc.getValue(fld);
i had a lot of trouble then determining what kind of data I had. It could be a null Date/Number/String So the first thing I did was find out what the backend data type was:
var thisItem:NotesItem = thisDoc.getDocument().getFirstItem(fld);
var type:Integer = thisItem.getType()
This helps somewhat if the field has been previously set, but if it is a new document or the field has not received a value yet it will be type 1280 or text and probably null.
So my fisrt test is for null or "". then it becomes a bit tougher because I need to test for some values. In all my comboboxs I add the text "--- Select ?????" as the first item in the list so I tried to get a substring of "---" but because of variance in the datatype I needed to put that in a try:
try{
if (thisValue.substring(0,3) == "---"){
print("have null Prefix");
rtn = false;
errMsg.push("The field " + fld + " is a Required Field please enter a value");
break;
}catch(e){ etc
I then wrapped the various other datatype tests in trys and now I have it working.
Might be a better way but this works.
Use .getItemValue() to return a vector array, then test the data type. You can also try .getItemValueString() to return a text string or .getItemValueDate() or .getItemValueDateTime() to return date/time.
Since getItemValue() returns an array, use subscript to get the first element:
var thisValue = thisDoc.getItemValue(fld);
var thisIsDate = (thisValue[0] instanceof Date);
print("Check Text = " + thisValue[0]);
print("Is this a Date ? " + thisIsDate;
I have a multivalue field called freeDaysPool which has multiple dates as strings. With the following code, the search does not return anything. If I leave that field out, the search works just fine with the two other fields. I read that I should use CONTAINS with multivalue fields but then I got query not understandable.
I've tried the back-end field as a date field and as a text field and tested all kinds of query combinations and date formats but no luck. Any help is really appreciated.
This is the search button code:
var query = new Array("");
var cTerms = 0;
// Field 1
var search01 = getComponent("searchcustomReservationField01").getValue();
if (#Contains(#Text(search01),"any city")){"";}
else {query[cTerms++] = '[customReservationField01]="' + search01 +'"'};
// Field 2
var search02 = getComponent("searchcustomReservationField02").getValue();
if (#Contains(#Text(search02),"any city")){"";}
else {query[cTerms++] = '[customReservationField02]="' + search02 + '"'};
// Date 1
var formatter = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("d.M.yyyy");
query[cTerms++] = 'FIELD freeDaysPool = ' + formatter.format(getComponent("searchcustomDateField01").getValue());
// if query is still empty, we fill it with asterisk
if(query == "" || query == null){
query[cTerms++] = "*";
}
// make all as string
qstring = query.join(" AND ").trim();
sessionScope.searchString = qstring;
It will return query as:
[customReservationField01]="Oslo" AND [customReservationField02]="Oslo" AND FIELD freeDaysPool = 6.2.2015
AFAIK date values in formulas (and a query is a formula) have to be noted like
[06.02.2015]
to compare them. Just try to use your formular in the Notes Client to do a fulltext search. If you get results and no errors you found the correct format. That's at least the way I test queries as I'm not able to remind the syntax for years :-D
Thank you for all the help! Seems that Domino keeps the field type as date field even if you change it back to text field (noticed that from the notes FTsearch). I created completely new text field and added the days as strings in dd.MM.yyyy format. I also search them as strings and it works fine.
The changed code bit now looks like this:
// Date 1
var formatter = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
query[cTerms++] = '[freeDays] CONTAINS "' + formatter.format(getComponent("searchcustomDateField01").getValue())+'"';
I am working on fetching meetings given two dates: e.g. fetch all the meetings that are in the current month.
Suppose that I have around 45 meetings in the specified period. My web service is taking a lot of time.
This is how I'm doing it right now:
I fetch all the documents in the calendar view.
Check all the documents for the start Date and end date.
If any of the meetings fall in the specified period i am constructing an array and i am returning that array.
Is this correct?
This way is correct, but very inefficient. Better use the NotesDatabase- Class and create a Query to use with the search- method:
Here an example in LotusScript (as you do not specify a language)
Dim ses as New NotesSession
Dim db as NotesDatabase
Dim dc as NotesDocumentCollection
Dim strQuery as String
Set db = ses.CurrentDatabase
strQuery = {Form = "Appointment" & _
(StartDate >= [01.01.2014] & StartDate < [01.02.2014]) | _
(EndDate >= [01.01.2014] & EndDate < [01.02.2014])}
Set dc = db.Search( strQuery , Nothing, 0 )
'- Cycle through this collection...
Of course you need to dynamically adjust the strQuery by building it from todays date... But this will be much more performant than your version.
It is correct, but not very performant when you have a lot of documents. Basically you will create a view with first column the meeting (start)date, sorted. In LotusScript you can acces the view, set the "cursor" of the first meeting that matches the starting date and then step thru the view until you reach a date after the end date.
Read about view´s GetDocumentByKey method. Further here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.designer.domino.main.doc%2FH_LOCATING_DOCUMENTS_WITHIN_A_VIEW_OR_FOLDER.html
Hmmm ... thinking a litlle further, what happens if you have a start date but no matching meeting ... so refer to FTSearch() method.
If you are using Notes / Domino 9.0 or later, you should use the built-in calendar classes. These are available either from LotusScript or Java. Here's an example using Java. Given a database object and a date range, it prints all the entries in the range:
private static void printRange(Database database, DateTime start, DateTime end) throws NotesException {
// Get the calendar object from the database
NotesCalendar calendar = database.getParent().getCalendar(database);
if ( calendar != null ) {
// Get a list of calendar entries
Vector<NotesCalendarEntry> entries = calendar.getEntries(start, end);
if ( entries != null ) {
// For each entry ...
Iterator<NotesCalendarEntry> iterator = entries.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
NotesCalendarEntry entry = iterator.next();
// Read the iCalendar representation
String icalendar = entry.read();
// Get the Notes UNID
Document doc = entry.getAsDocument();
String unid = doc.getUniversalID();
// Print UNID and iCalendar to console
System.out.println("Entry UNID: " + unid);
System.out.println(icalendar);
}
}
}
}
The NotesCalendar and NotesCalendarEntry interfaces are in the lotus.domino package. If you are using LotusScript, there are classes of the same name and with the same methods.
A couple of warnings about the above code:
It doesn't handle the nuances of repeating entries. You can have multiple instances of a repeating entry in the same time range. In Notes these entries might have the same UNID. You should test your code with repeating entries to make sure you understand the nuances.
The example doesn't recycle the Document, NotesCalendarEntry and NotesCalendar objects as it should. I skipped this for simplicity, but if you are using the Notes Java classes, you definitely need to use recycle() correctly. It will save headaches down the road.
Background:
The company I work for has a regular SharePoint list with a custom ContentType (that does not inherit from a calendar list item) that it uses for Events. It then shows these using a calendar view. Seems simple enough.
We have the need to allow the user to choose a timezone for the event (different from their regional setting) that they are adding and to add the information to sharepoint such that it will show the correct time for each user looking at it world wide (based on their regional setting of course).
I added a list to SharePoint that is used to lookup SystemTimeZones (basically a SharePoint List representation of TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones())
SPList timeZonesList = thisWeb.Lists.TryGetList("SystemTimeZones");
if(timeZonesList == null)
{
string title = "SystemTimeZones";
string description = "SharePoint List representation of TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones() used for lookup.";
Guid newListId = thisWeb.Lists.Add(title, description, SPListTemplateType.GenericList);
timeZonesList = thisWeb.Lists.GetList(newListId, true);
timeZonesList.Fields.Add("SystemTimeZoneId", SPFieldType.Text, true);
timeZonesList.Fields.Add("SystemTimeZoneName", SPFieldType.Text, true);
SPView defaultTimeZonesView = timeZonesList.DefaultView;
defaultTimeZonesView.ViewFields.Add("SystemTimeZoneId");
defaultTimeZonesView.ViewFields.Add("SystemTimeZoneName");
defaultTimeZonesView.Update();
foreach (TimeZoneInfo timeZone in TimeZoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones())
{
SPListItem temp = timeZonesList.AddItem();
temp["SystemTimeZoneId"] = timeZone.Id;
temp["SystemTimeZoneName"] = timeZone.DisplayName;
temp.Update();
}
}
I'm using this list for the lookup item for EventTimeZone in my custom add and edit forms for this list. The forms are direct copies of what SharePoint Designer would create (in that they are using the SharePoint:FormField's) they are just in Visual Studio bc I needed code-behind. I wanted to allow the users to see the events in their Regional TimeZone however when they edit them I wanted to show them in the TimeZone they were entered. (IE my regional timezone is Central so when I look at a Mountain meeting it will show me 10-11am but when I edit that same meeting it will say it is 9-10am). So on page load of edit I adjust the times:
SPListItem thisEvent = eventsList.GetItemById(savebutton1.ItemId);
if (thisEvent != null)
{
bool isAllDayEvent = false;
if (thisEvent["fAllDayEvent"] != null)
{
isAllDayEvent = (bool)thisEvent["fAllDayEvent"];
}
if (!isAllDayEvent)
{
SPFieldLookupValue lookupValue = new SPFieldLookupValue(thisEvent["Event Time Zone"].ToString());
TimeZoneInfo eventTimeZone = GetEventTimeZoneByListItemId(lookupValue.LookupId, rootWeb);
SPTimeZone regionalTimeZone = GetRegionalTimeZone(rootWeb);
DateTime regionalStartDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(thisEvent["StartDate"]);
DateTime originalStartDateTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(regionalTimeZone.LocalTimeToUTC(regionalStartDateTime), eventTimeZone);
ff3.ListItemFieldValue = originalStartDateTime;
DateTime regionalEndDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(thisEvent["EndDate"]);
DateTime originalEndDateTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(regionalTimeZone.LocalTimeToUTC(regionalEndDateTime), eventTimeZone);
ff4.ListItemFieldValue = originalEndDateTime;
}
else
{
// for some reason with all day events, sharepoint saves them
// as the previous day 6pm. but when they show up to any user
// they will show as 12am to 1159pm and show up correctly on the calendar
// HOWEVER, when it comes to edit, the start date isn't corrected on the
// form, so continuing to save without fixing it will continue to decrease
// the start date/time by one day
DateTime regionalStartDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(thisEvent["StartDate"]);
ff3.ListItemFieldValue = regionalStartDateTime.AddDays(1);
}
All day events were strange but I was able to make it work by just writing test cases and see what happened (as you can see from my comments).
Then I tie into the list event receivers ItemAdded and ItemUpdated to "fix" the times since SharePoint is going to save them based on the user's regional setting and not the timezone the user chose. (Of course I'm slightly new to SharePoint -- not c# -- so I may have very much over complicated this, but I have been able to fine little documentation online). In the end I end up setting:
addedItem["StartDate"] = regionalTimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventStart.ToUniversalTime());
addedItem["EndDate"] = regionalTimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventEnd.ToUniversalTime()); TADA!! It saves and display perfectly! I was so excited! Until... I tried to save a recurring event. All of my recurring events save wonderfully, it's not the recurring part that's messed up. For some reason, after I change the StartDate and EndDate on a recurring event and call addedItem.Update() it is recalculating the "Duration" as if it is a single even instead of a recurring event. Example: I have an event that happens for a week daily from 9-10. When I first enter ItemAdded my Duration is 3600 (1 hour) as it should be bc Duration is treated differently for recurring events. However after I adjust the times and call Update() the duration spans the entire week :( If I manually set the Duration:
if (isRecurrence)
{
addedItem["Duration"] = (correctedEventEnd.TimeOfDay - correctedEventStart.TimeOfDay).TotalSeconds;
}
It still gets reset on Update(). So when you view the recurring item in a Calendar View the item spans the entire week instead of showing once a day.
I have all but pulled my hair out trying to figure this out. Any guidance would be wonderful. I understand Duration is a calculated field but I can't understand why calling listItem.Update() would ignore the fact that it is indeed properly marked as a recurring event and not calculate the Duration correctly. This honestly seems like a bug with SP 2010.
Thanks in advance!
**
EDIT: Additional info after comments below...
**
This SharePoint env has a server in pacific time and users across all US TimeZones, London, Tokyo, Abu Dabi, etc. Users in one timezone need to be able to create events in other timezones. Since nothing in the user's profile (for us anyway) will tell us what timezone they would like to see everything in, we added code to our master page to look at the local machine's timezone and always set their regional setting accordingly.
Example: I am in Nashville and I want to create an event that will happen in LA:
The data in ItemAdded shows that StartDate is what I entered 9am. So I'm creating a date that has PST at the end of it:
DateTime correctedEventStart = DateTime.Parse(addedItem["StartDate"] + " " + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Hours + ":" + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Minutes);
DateTime correctedEventEnd = DateTime.Parse(addedItem["EndDate"] + " " + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Hours + ":" + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Minutes);
Then to "trick" SharePoint I'm converting that PST time into the users regional time (so the user doesn't have to know anything about their regional setting nor do they have to think). So 9am PST is 7am CST (bc that's what SharePoint expects the time to be in since that's my regional setting). Here's the converstion from the correct time+timezone to the user regional timezone:
addedItem["StartDate"] = regionalTimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventStart.ToUniversalTime());
addedItem["EndDate"] = regionalTimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventEnd.ToUniversalTime());
I don't know if this makes sense to anyone outside of my world. But SharePoint obviously expects the times to be in the user's regional (or the web's) timezone. That's obvious my from unit testing. If there is an OOB way for me to allow a user in Central Time to create a meeting from 9-10am Pacific Time in a custom list I would LOVE to be able to use that. But I haven't been able to find anything.
Again, all of this works great... until you come to Recurring Events. And actually it works for recurring events until you try to view said event in a Calendar View. Then it looks like this:
Notice that "Recurring 8" is recurring the way it's supposed to, daily for 2 instances. However, the "span" or "duration" of the recurrence is 2 days rather than 1 hour. Where as "Recurring 15" shows correctly. The only difference in field values between the two when output to debug is the "Duration" field. Recurring 8 had it's start and end date's updated in ItemAdded and Recurring 15 went through ItemAdded but the ListItem.Update() was commented out. Per documentation SharePoint is supposed to calculate Duration differently for recurring items than it does for single items. The fact that the start and end dates are changed using the object model should not negate that.
Ok, so the way I ended up handling this is as follows. I decided to back out of the list event receiver because it really does appear to be a SharePoint bug in the recalculation of Duration for recurring events now working correctly. I opted to tie into the save event on the form and changing the values before they are even sent. This seems to work so far in all scenarios. All of my math is the same as before. So in my New2.aspx (new item form for this list)
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnInit(e);
if ((SPContext.Current.FormContext.FormMode == SPControlMode.New) || (SPContext.Current.FormContext.FormMode == SPControlMode.Edit))
{
SPContext.Current.FormContext.OnSaveHandler += new EventHandler(SaveHandler);
}
}
protected void SaveHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Page.Validate();
if (Page.IsValid)
{
// fix times
SPFieldLookupValue lookupValue = new SPFieldLookupValue(ff5.Value.ToString());
TimeZoneInfo eventTimeZone = GetEventTimeZoneByListItemId(lookupValue.LookupId, SPContext.Current.Web);
SPTimeZone regionalTimeZone = GetRegionalTimeZone(SPContext.Current.Web);
bool isAllDayEvent = Convert.ToBoolean(ff6.Value);
bool isRecurrence = Convert.ToBoolean(ff11.Value);
DateTime correctedEventStart = DateTime.MinValue;
DateTime correctedEventEnd = DateTime.MinValue;
if (!isAllDayEvent && eventTimeZone != null && regionalTimeZone != null)
{
correctedEventStart = DateTime.Parse(ff3.Value.ToString() + " " + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Hours + ":" + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Minutes);
correctedEventEnd = DateTime.Parse(ff4.Value.ToString() + " " + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Hours + ":" + eventTimeZone.GetUtcOffset(DateTime.UtcNow).Minutes);
ff3.ItemFieldValue = regionalTimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventStart.ToUniversalTime());
ff4.ItemFieldValue = regionalTimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventEnd.ToUniversalTime());
}
SPContext.Current.ListItem.Update();
}
}
This updates the times as my previous approach does but it will also calculate the duration correctly.
SharePoint handles displaying the correct time based on the user's regional settings (or web if the user hasn't set it) and displaying the correct times in calendar views. I did have to change the Edit form to have the correct values on edit:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
{
try
{
using (SPWeb rootWeb = SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb)
{
SPList eventsList = rootWeb.Lists.TryGetList("Events");
if (eventsList != null)
{
SPListItem thisEvent = eventsList.GetItemById(savebutton1.ItemId);
if (thisEvent != null)
{
bool isAllDayEvent = false;
if (thisEvent["fAllDayEvent"] != null)
{
isAllDayEvent = (bool)thisEvent["fAllDayEvent"];
}
if (!isAllDayEvent)
{
SPFieldLookupValue lookupValue = new SPFieldLookupValue(thisEvent["Event Time Zone"].ToString());
TimeZoneInfo eventTimeZone = GetEventTimeZoneByListItemId(lookupValue.LookupId, rootWeb);
SPTimeZone regionalTimeZone = GetRegionalTimeZone(rootWeb);
DateTime regionalStartDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(thisEvent["StartDate"]);
DateTime originalStartDateTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(regionalTimeZone.LocalTimeToUTC(regionalStartDateTime), eventTimeZone);
ff3.ListItemFieldValue = originalStartDateTime;
DateTime regionalEndDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(thisEvent["EndDate"]);
DateTime originalEndDateTime = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(regionalTimeZone.LocalTimeToUTC(regionalEndDateTime), eventTimeZone);
ff4.ListItemFieldValue = originalEndDateTime;
}
else
{
// for some reason with all day events, sharepoint saves them
// as the previous day 6pm. but when they show up to any user
// they will show as 12am to 1159pm and show up correctly on the calendar
// HOWEVER, when it comes to edit, the start date isn't corrected on the
// form, so continuing to save without fixing it will continue to decrease
// the start date/time by one day
DateTime regionalStartDateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(thisEvent["StartDate"]);
ff3.ListItemFieldValue = regionalStartDateTime.AddDays(1);
}
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
DebugLogger.WriteLine(ex);
}
}
}
The Edit form has the same OnInit and SaveHandler as New.
I think you are running afoul of the shennagins that SharePoint uses for reccuring events. Essentially the events are stored in a single list item and expanded at query time. This makes the storage of events quite counter intuitive to how you expect.
From that post it looks like the EventDate and EndDate fields are used differently depending on the recurrence or not.
Also be aware the SharePoint stores dates in UTC 'under the hood' and converts back to the users (or websites) timezone on display. You may be able to use this knowledge to optimise some of the date logic.
More information
http://fatalfrenchy.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/sharepoint-recurrence-data-schema/
Share point 2010 ItemAdding insert Recurrence data on calendar
http://blog.tylerholmes.com/2012/02/how-sharepoint-deals-with-time-and-time.html
Here is the code I used to create an occuring event in another timezone (note: I did not explicitly set the duration)
public void AddRecurringItemGTM8Perth(SPList list)
{
string recData = "<recurrence><rule><firstDayOfWeek>su</firstDayOfWeek><repeat><daily dayFrequency=\"1\" /></repeat><windowEnd>2013-02-20T01:00:00Z</windowEnd></rule></recurrence>";
SPListItem newitem = list.Items.Add();
newitem["Title"] = "Perth " + DateTime.Now.ToString();
newitem["RecurrenceData"] = recData;
newitem["EventType"] = 1;
DateTime correctedEventStart = new DateTime(2013, 2, 3, 12, 0, 0);
//note that date is end of event and time is event end to calculate duration
DateTime correctedEventEnd = new DateTime(2013, 2, 20, 13, 0, 0);
SPTimeZone spTz = SPRegionalSettings.GlobalTimeZones[74]; //perth
correctedEventStart = spTz.LocalTimeToUTC(correctedEventStart);
correctedEventEnd = spTz.LocalTimeToUTC(correctedEventEnd);
correctedEventStart = list.ParentWeb.RegionalSettings.TimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventStart);
correctedEventEnd = list.ParentWeb.RegionalSettings.TimeZone.UTCToLocalTime(correctedEventEnd);
newitem["Start Time"] = correctedEventStart;
newitem["End Time"] = correctedEventEnd;
newitem["Recurrence"] = true;
newitem["fAllDayEvent"] = false;
newitem["WorkspaceLink"] = false;
newitem["UID"] = Guid.NewGuid();
newitem.Update();
list.Update();
}
So I convert from users "local" to UTC and then back to the web local.
The UID is necessary or there is an error when you click on the event.
If you want a recurrence of 13 say... the code is:
string recData = "<recurrence><rule><firstDayOfWeek>su</firstDayOfWeek><repeat><daily dayFrequency=\"1\" /></repeat><repeatInstances>13</repeatInstances></rule></recurrence>";
DateTime correctedEventEnd = new DateTime(2013, 2, 3, 13, 0, 0).AddDays(13);
Whereas no end date is :
string recData = "<recurrence><rule><firstDayOfWeek>su</firstDayOfWeek><repeat><daily dayFrequency=\"1\" /></repeat><repeatForever>FALSE</repeatForever></rule></recurrence>";
DateTime correctedEventEnd = new DateTime(2013, 2, 3, 13, 0, 0).AddDays(998);
It might be quite old, but my answer may help someone.
You just have to explicitly put EventType = 1 in update as well.
I have a plugin where i am creating a new case and I want to send an email out as it is created including its ticketnumber. I have attempted just to call this in the plugin but it is coming back saying that it is not present in the dictionary. I know this field is populated using CRM's own autonumbering so what i'm guessing is happening is that my plugin is firing and creating the case but then i'm trying to use this field before the autonumber has completed.
So is there a way that i can get my plugin to "wait" until this field is available and then use it?
Thanks
EDIT: Code below:
string emailBody = entity.Attributes["description"].ToString();
int bodyLength = emailBody.Length;
int textStart = emailBody.IndexOf(">") + 1;
int newLength = bodyLength - (textStart + 7);
string description = emailBody.Substring(textStart, newLength);
//create complaint
Entity complaint = new Entity("incident");
complaint["description"] = description;
complaint["ts_case_type"] = 717750001;
complaint["ts_registration_datetime"] = DateTime.Now;
complaint["ownerid"] = Owner;
complaint["customerid"] = Organisation;
Service.Create(complaint);
As a side I would suggest sending the email with a workflow if possible, it will be far easier to maintain in the long run and quicker to implement in the short.
In any case to answer your question, from what you have here you need to update your code to retrieve the ticketnumber once you have created the incident. You can do this with a Retrieve message.
For example:
//Create the complaint
Entity complaint = new Entity("incident");
//This is the information that is being sent to the server,
//it will not be updated by CRM with any additional information post creation
complaint["description"] = description;
complaint["ts_case_type"] = 717750001;
complaint["ts_registration_datetime"] = DateTime.Now;
complaint["ownerid"] = Owner;
complaint["customerid"] = Organisation;
//Capture the id of the complaint, we will need this in a moment
Guid complaintId = Service.Create(complaint);
//complaint["ticketnumber"] <-- The server does not populate this information in your object
//Retrieve the ticketnumber from the incident we just created
Entity complaintRetrieved = service.Retrieve("incident", complaintId, new ColumnSet("ticketnumber"));
//Get the ticketnumber
String ticketNumber = (String)complaintRetrieved.Attributes["ticketnumber"];
Like James said in comment, if you just want to send email with some case properties, it is best to do that with workflow (on case create).
In your plugin, ID is generated, and you can get it with:
entity.Attributes["ticketnumber"]