Calendar: Event with start time and no end time

[JonCup]

Steps to reproduce

1. Set the start time to 7:30 am and the end time to 7:30 am on the same day

Expected behavior

Should be able to add events without a stop time, one time events that don't have a duration, like wake up at 7:00 am. Do this action at this time. Stuff like that.

Actual behavior

The event is displayed on the calendar as "7:30am - 9:30am", if you click on the details its says its 7:30 to 8:30 and if you click update it does update it on the calendar too, but you still can't set a event with out an end time.

Server configuration detail

Operating system: Linux 4.14.17-x86_64-linode99 #1 SMP Tue Feb 6 19:09:58 UTC 2018 x86_64

Webserver: nginx/1.10.3 (fpm-fcgi)

Database: mysql 10.2.14

PHP version: 7.1.15-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+2
Modules loaded: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, cgi-fcgi, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, apcu, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, iconv, igbinary, imagick, json, exif, mcrypt, mongodb, msgpack, mysqli, pdo_mysql, Phar, posix, readline, redis, shmop, SimpleXML, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, memcached, Zend OPcache

Nextcloud version: 13.0.1 - 13.0.1.1

Updated from an older Nextcloud/ownCloud or fresh install:

Where did you install Nextcloud from: unknown

Signing status

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List of activated apps

Enabled:
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Disabled:
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 - dashboard
 - files_accesscontrol
 - files_automatedtagging
 - files_retention
 - flowupload
 - lsd
 - mail
 - ocr
 - ojsxc
 - polls
 - socialsharing_facebook
 - tasks
 - user_external
 - user_ldap

Configuration (config/config.php)

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Are you using encryption: yes

Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one: LDAP/ActiveDirectory/Webdav/...

Client configuration

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Operating system:

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[memen45]

Exactly the same issue here. Server is up to date (13.0.1).
I am using DAVdroid app on android to sync the events and the windows 10 calendar app (with icloud account configuration) to sync the calendars between devices and this properly works.
I think this is a bug in the representation in the UI of the webapp?

[georgehrke]

Should be able to add events without a stop time, one time events that don't have a duration, like wake up at 7:00 am. Do this action at this time. Stuff like that.

What's the use case here?

This is a calendar app, not an alarm clock ;)
Generally if you have stuff to do at a certain time like "Call XYZ" or "Pick up ABC from XYZ" you would want to use the task app, not the calendar app.

also see #28

[memen45]

I think this is a bug, regardless of whether there is a use case for it. An event is shown in the calendar overview with an incorrect end time.

Personally I encountered this as I add deadlines to my calendar app as well. I am not really familiar with the task app, so I do not know whether I conceptually should use that one for keeping track of my deadlines, but I would think using multiple apps for scheduling your time would be overly complicated?

[JonCup]

Memen45 said it all perfectly. Either way there is definitely a bug here. But also, I agree why use two different apps to manage time. I'd be ok with using a different app, as long as I can see all my schedule in one place.

[hoyalu]

A regular use case for me are events with a specific start time but an unpredictable duration or a duration unknown at creation time. The students' concert will definitely start at 11:00, but it might take 30 or 120 minutes, depending on the number of participants.

Ugly workarounds could be to create a day event, mentioning the start time in the description, or to create an event with the longest possible duration and a note like "might end way earlier".

[imforumman]

Critical, as when editing an event that was correctly created to having no duration, it is wrongly and inadvertently modified when editing that event.

The wrong display using two hours as the duration is arbitrary, using a box as high as the description needs seems more reasonable.