[Lizard]

Originally Posted by whpalmer4

After a bit of playing around with this, I think the model is a bit odd, and in some cases, rather less functional than the "armada of parallel repeats" tactic.

The "armada of parallel repeats" is still available for anyone who finds that more effective.

Okay, but if you set a daily repeat, you don't get those day of the week boxes active. "No, you need to think of this as a bunch of weekly repeats on selected days" says the support ninja in a soothing voice. New user starts muttering under his breath about confusing user interfaces...

This design choice was made (among other reasons) to be consistent with the iCal UI.

I'm sure it seemed like a great programming convenience to implement this feature in the way that it is, but the PX came at a cost to the UX! It would certainly be more work to implement the same UI, but have it executed by the armada of parallel repeating actions. The users who are led astray might think it was worth it...

Some people may be led astray by this. Perhaps more people were confounded by the previous UI and never thought to create the "armada of parallel repeating actions." We're going to keep improving this software (including repeating actions), sometimes in leaps and bounds, sometimes by little nibbles that only help a subset of our customers.