The repeat controls sat after the dates and applied to whatever was there,
which meant a weekly chore still had to answer an end date it has no honest
answer to. Asking first inverts that: the cadence decides which dates are
even questions.
A preset carries no window. Weekly means the week is the window, so there is
no end to type and no ignorance to admit — five fields instead of eight, and
it stores exactly what the model already renders as back-to-back
occurrences. A dated recurring event is therefore a custom, which is where
the forever/delay control now lives; a one-off shows no repeat machinery at
all.
cadenceOf derives which of the five a saved event opens in, so a rule made
before this control existed opens in whichever answer describes it. Nothing
about the schema moved.
Switching cadence hides the end date rather than clearing it: hiding a field
and quietly discarding what is in it is how a form loses somebody's work
when they change their mind back.
The duplicate note was found by rendering the form and looking at it. Both
of the older notes explain the end-date field, so a preset — which has no
such field — was showing two sentences that said nearly the same thing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
