When I reset and sync my XDA2 there is no highlight in the calender to show an entry. When I go into the day view I see the entires, mostly birthday and anniversary entries and a few meetings etc.
Is there a way to get them to be highlight in the month and yearly view as in Outlook 2000 on my PC. It should show a wee triangle or square on the PPC Outlook according to the book.
Its used a lot by me to review the month and see the dates that are highlighted.
Please help asap,
Thanks,
IrishLad
i believe if they are made as birthdays and such in contacts then they always display like that
They used to display the boxes on the monthly view
They used to display the notifications boxes under the monthly view before I reset and reinstall the XDA2. I'm 90% sure they did.
A triangle for the mettings and a box for birthdays and anniversaries.
So can anyone confirm this?
well mine dont display birthdays and such under the calander
and i get a triangle if the meeting is not for that long
and a square if it's an all day event
not sure why birthdays are not shown
Strange
I am very sure it used to until I reset. Must have just been the meetings I could see then.
It is very useful to be able to review the mouth view and see dates that have entires. Just gonna have to manually check them in advance or change all my reminder dates.
If anyone else has any ideas if this can be done let me know.
Thanks
Birthdays wont display any shape because the STATUS field is by the default FREE. If you try to edit the STATUS field of a birthday entry into something that is not FREE, then it will display a box.
Now, if anyone of you knows how to configure your outlook or XDA wherein auto-generation of birthday entries from Contacts to Calendar will have a non-FREE status, please let me know so we could all see birthday indicator in our calendars. Then everybody's happy
I had them all changed in outlook to Tentative, so they would display an empty square.
two things happened :
- installing Pocket Informant & de-installing
- a hard reset
and then I noticed they were all set to free again & synced to outlook, so I had to change them all manually again.
if you shell out for a program such as KitaraGenesis, you can have a today screen plugin showing all kinds of different events / birthdays etc. It works through the Cal database so anything you put in Outlook's calendar will show through in KG. I bought it a year ago and I think it's great. It even links tasks.
Cheers
Anthony
Make sure that you sync the past 4 weeks of appointments and don't have any category filters on.
I use PI myself, I can recommend that for your needs too.
Cheers
Related
Hi everyone. I maintain all birthdays and anniversaries for my contacts in the contact details. But somehow, they automatically become reminders. How can I set the phone up (including Outlook on PC) to not to make reminders out of birthdays and anniversaries, but still have them in calender as annual events (without reminders)?
Using Kaiser, WM6 (Alex's Clean ROM); PC has Vista, Outlook 2007.
Not positive about Outlook 2007, but in 2003 (which is where I'd change them), once you open the calendar hit, there is a "reminder" box which, if unchecked, will not provide a reminder for the event. You'll want to make sure you open the series, not the individual event before unchecking the reminder box.
That's just ur way of saying you don't wan't to rember you'r anniversarie lol..
Cheer's
Thanks debs, but I already knew that method of disabling reminders, but the problem is that it has to be done for all of them one by one, which is very annoying if you, let's say, hard reset and restore your contacts, it syncs with outlook and then you have your reminders again; or let's say you add new contact in either pc or ppc, sync and another set of reminders.....
I was looking for something that would disable the automatic reminder.
I use SPB diary for these events to be displayed on today screen, so don't really need to reminded at midnight that someone's birthday or anniversary is coming up!
Setting reminder timing forBirthdays and anniversaries
damac said:
Thanks debs, but I already knew that method of disabling reminders, but the problem is that it has to be done for all of them one by one, which is very annoying if you, let's say, hard reset and restore your contacts, it syncs with outlook and then you have your reminders again; or let's say you add new contact in either pc or ppc, sync and another set of reminders.....
I was looking for something that would disable the automatic reminder.
I use SPB diary for these events to be displayed on today screen, so don't really need to reminded at midnight that someone's birthday or anniversary is coming up!
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I have the same problem. The main problem is not that it reminds me. I need it to remind me. But I don't want it to remind me at midnight. I want to be reminded at 10 AM for example.
And you are right, we should be able to set reminder for a category of reminders such as Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays, etc..
Anyone has a solution for this?
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Hi everyone. I maintain all birthdays and anniversaries for my contacts in the contact details. But somehow, they automatically become reminders. How can I set the phone up (including Outlook on PC) to not to make reminders out of birthdays and anniversaries, but still have them in calender as annual events (without reminders)?
Using Kaiser, WM6 (Alex's Clean ROM); PC has Vista, Outlook 2007.
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Hi Damac,
You've probably figured this out by now, but ...
1) In Outlook: Tools -> Options...
In the calendar section there's a checkbox for default reminder. That needs to be unchecked to prevent any new calendar items from getting a reminder. Unfortunately this affects all new items; Birthdays, meetings, etc. You may wish to leave this on and just periodically kill off the annual events that you don't need a reminder for.
2) In Outlook: Calendar mode. View -> Current View -> Annual Events (or Events).
This will show a table of all annual events.
Right click on the heading bar (Subject, Location, Recurrence, etc) and select field chooser.
This will open another floating dialog with extra fields that can be added to the table.
Find "Reminder" in the field list and drag it to the heading bar in a suitable spot.
Now any event that has a reminder will have a little alarm bell icon in the reminder field.
You can single click each of those icons to turn off. It's easier than it sounds and most annual events you won't want a reminder for anyway as the alarm always goes off at midnight!
3) On the PPC: This is for a 6.1 version, but it's similar on all of them.
Start -> Settings. Personal tab. Sounds & Notifications.
Sounds tab. This section alows you to turn off sound for all alarms and notifications.
Notifications tab. Select the 'Reminders' event. This allows you to choose the sound that plays and also whether the sound repeats, light flases & vibrate.
Since I do want to be notified of important days, I've just unchecked the repeat box. There's nothing more annoying than being woken up at midnight by a constant notification alarm about Aunt Bessie's birthday. I can put up with a single alarm, but not a repeating one!
Just like the previous poster, I'm also looking for a way of getting the all day events notifications to activate at a time other than midnight...
Cheers,
Anthony
Anyone got a solution to this?
I want it to remind me at a time I select too. Not midnight.
*push*
Me too. Same problem with annoying reminders at 23:45...
Greets,
Puschel
When I was still using the IMate Jam (can remember the operating system) it had a option to set the reminder time for all day events.
Why did they change something that worked.
I wish I can get that code of the imate en add it to my HTC Touch pro 2 (WM6.5)
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I have the same problem. The main problem is not that it reminds me. I need it to remind me. But I don't want it to remind me at midnight. I want to be reminded at 10 AM for example.
And you are right, we should be able to set reminder for a category of reminders such as Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays, etc..
Anyone has a solution for this?
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I'm like yourself, I want to be reminded of families birthdays, anniversaries etc but don't want to be reminded at 12.00am.
To stop this I sync'ed my device with Outlook and then changed the reminder notification time to 0.5 days for each birthday/anniversary
Tip, when you open a birthday/anniversary....make sure you click on 'open the series'
Also, you can change the default notification time so for any new birthdays/anniversaries the default time will be set to whatever you choose, i.e. in my case 0.5 days
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I'm like yourself, I want to be reminded of families birthdays, anniversaries etc but don't want to be reminded at 12.00am.
To stop this I sync'ed my device with Outlook and then changed the reminder notification time to 0.5 days for each birthday/anniversary
Tip, when you open a birthday/anniversary....make sure you click on 'open the series'
Also, you can change the default notification time so for any new birthdays/anniversaries the default time will be set to whatever you choose, i.e. in my case 0.5 days
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Thanks. I am doing this already as a work around. But I want the reminder to ring on the day of the birth day not the day before. The Imate Jam (WM 2003) had a setting " all day begin at .... "
Hey, there appear to be a number of problems with birthdays in Outlook and Pocket PC, which i think i may have found a solution for. There are numerous threads throughout xda looking for solutions so i thought i would put this here, if thats ok, to try and create a major thread with solutions. Please move/delete etc if this is an issue. Firstly ill outline the issues as i see them:
Editing or creating a contact on a WM device and adding their birthday results in no event being added to the calendar. For an event/appointment to be created you need to add the users birthday to a contact in Outlook on a Desktop. (This appears to be on 2003, i havent tested 2007 - someone confirm?)
Syncing contacts through exchange results in the same as above.
There is no way to change the default reminder a new birthday is added for a contact.
I found an app called CustomBirthdays which is a plugin for Outlook on the desktop, which allows you to fully customise the automatic appointments that are made for birthdays when a contact is edited. It can search your contacts and generates the autoevent if you have just synced your contacts from your WM to a new Desktop outlook or exchange session. It also lets you set what the default reminder is for all birthdays etc.
I DO NO HAVE ANY AFFILIATION WITH THIS COMPANY/SOFTWARE. Its just this has been a massive pain in the A** for me in the past, and due to the number of other requests i thought i would share. There is a 30 day trial which lets you do everything. Heres the link:
http://www.outlook-stuff.com/lang-en/products/calendar/231-custombirthdays.html
The reason i want this instead of today plugins for my WM, is because this way it generates an appointment in the WM calendar, and is not a seperate app searching through your contacts to display on today. I also use TF3D, which only shows appointments and not today plugins.
I hope this is useful to some people
Please post any freeware or other solutions you may have.
Here it is the english version of BirthdaysToCalendar. It will add all or selected birthdays of your contacts to your calendar. This is useful for people that do not have Outlook on their PCs, to accomplish the task.
The program offers a few choices, either add all birthdays to the calendar in one go or let it ask in single steps for each contact's birthday to be added or not. Set the reminder time (time you will be informed prior to the birthday) in minutes. 1 day would be 1440min. , 2 days 2880 min. and so forth. On top you can have the birth year added to the subject, so you will know how old they'll be.
No duplicates will be generated if the program is run again. However, if you have a birthday alert set up manually yourself before, but they are not in the the same form (John Doe's Birthday or Birthday John Doe) they will be duplicated.
Get it here:
http://mytd2.blogspot.com/2009/08/birthdaystocalendar-in-english.html
Thank you for your application, It has been added to the rollup thread.
Is it different then B2C - Birthday2Calendar? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=529857
Yes, it's different, though both derive from a sample included in MS Visual Studio 2008 with the same name
With his you can vary the reminder time (will add that too), with mine you can single step through the birthdays, so they differ a bit.
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Mine has the same functionality +more now
hth,
Tin
My Outlook 2007 on PC will automatically add birthdays to Calendar as long as I have entered the birthday data into contacts and sync them.
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My Outlook 2007 on PC will automatically add birthdays to Calendar as long as I have entered the birthday data into contacts and sync them.
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That's why I said:
This is useful for people that do not have Outlook on their PCs, to accomplish the task.
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in the first post.
New extended version is up.
I'll be on vacation until Sunday 23rd and probably won't be able to answer, if questions arise. Just letting you know
Take care,
Tin
Hi, I install this app and when I run it it set all my birthdays to my calendar, but it put it duplicate, for example, I have a birthday on 18 July, so the app put the birthday 18 and 19 July. So when I tried to delete the bad one, when I try to access the birthday, mi screen turn white and I cant delete o edit the appointment.
My question is, how can I delete this appointments or the all calendar?
Thanks.
TinTin,
Do you mind to share your code or change the program so we can change the appointment prefix (localization to another language)?
Best regards.
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Hi, I install this app and when I run it it set all my birthdays to my calendar, but it put it duplicate, for example, I have a birthday on 18 July, so the app put the birthday 18 and 19 July. So when I tried to delete the bad one, when I try to access the birthday, mi screen turn white and I cant delete o edit the appointment.
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I get the same problem, I realise what has caused it but trying to delete the appointments in phone just causes the white screen and forces me to do a soft reset.
Same problem here as the people above me have mentioned. Screen turning white when wanting to delete extra day.
hi dear! i think title its enough to understand my idea
i think its a very big error by htc to dont let contacts and calendar syncronize
i have some contacts who are paired with facebook (i dont know if twitter work because i dont use it) and it download things like birth date!! or some event u want to report in ur calendar from facebook
i have a really bad memory for birthdays and it will help me sooooo much and i dont think to be alone
uhm....what should i intend? there is no way?
Yeah, I would much apreciate that as well.. It would be very helpfull..
It already does. I got a friend whose birthday is on 24 dec, and it appears in my calendar. It is the only one however, so i guess it only shows the birthdays in the next few days.
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It already does. I got a friend whose birthday is on 24 dec, and it appears in my calendar. It is the only one however, so i guess it only shows the birthdays in the next few days.
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Well, actualy it does only when you sync your phone with outlook. But i'd love some app, which can do dat evev without outlook sync (because i'm no using it ).
i have a friend whose birthday is 28 dec and dosnt show...im not using outlook too and i dont want it only to syncronize contacts...i prefere backup theme and store
Xardus,
Most probably you already know this but in Outlook there is a field in contacts under the tab "details" here you can fill in the birth date and year. Now in contacts under Wm 2003 (SE) the PDA and Outlook automaticly put a alarm on that specific day and give the age itself. Now in Outlook you will not see this shortley before the date appearing. I have not changed my Outlook and after sync everything including the birth date appeared BUT not in the calender. Now this was also in WM 2003 so I think that a few days (don't know how many)it will pick it up and will appear as a reminder.
fred
yea i know but fist i dont use outlook so i will never buy just to syncro calendar ^^
i know that we can set it manually in contact tabs,i use it at work sometime
i think its quiet usefull take birthdate directly from FB contact and put on calendar...or maybe an app on facebook to store ur birth and then syncro with phone calendar (but it should be a very very big work)
xardus said:
yea i know but fist i dont use outlook so i will never buy just to syncro calendar ^^
i know that we can set it manually in contact tabs,i use it at work sometime
i think its quiet usefull take birthdate directly from FB contact and put on calendar...or maybe an app on facebook to store ur birth and then syncro with phone calendar (but it should be a very very big work)
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search for fonebook an app for Facebook and Outlook
its an app for ppc or pc?
Any birthdays you add to your contacts will be added to you calendar when you sync with your PC, also if you link a contact with Facebook, that will also add it to your calendar (sometimes you'll even end up with 2 birthdays on a date for the same person).
On a side note....anyone know how to get the calendar to show the age of the person like you would on the Touch HD, as your putting in a complete date of birth, the touch HD would show the persons birthday then their age in brackets after it....doesn't seem to do that anymore...anyone know if there is a way to achieve this?
I've noticed a bug in WP7 + live.com calendar. If you let your account to put birthday dates automatically from facebook account it is of course added to your calendar.
However when you later on remove facebook account from live.com or your phone. The birthday data are still there and is impossible to remove them. When you try to do it you just get an error I think it's because the contact does not exist anymore as you removed fb account from it.
When you add fb account again, the birthdays date is again uploaded so you will get for each contact two duplicate date for birthdays.
Does someone know how to fix this? Because of some issues on my phone I was adding and removing fb account from my live account and phone for several times and now my calendar is filled by many duplicate dates which I'm unable to remove.
I haven't removed my Facebook account but I did notice duplicate entries for birthdays in my calendar.
Some are showing in my default calendar and the duplicates are in the automatically added Birthdays calendar.
I don't know why is this happening, but I don't like it.
BUMP
Does anybody know a solution to this? I think ot's hotmail's fault, but still.
i have the same issue. no solution found.
Maybe hotmail has to clean it up ?
Ask support for help maybe cause its annoying.
I do not fully understand the problem/issue you're having.
My FB contacts do not automatically show up in my Live calendar. In order to have my Live Calendar show FB Birthdays, I have to subscribe to the FB Birthday calendar on the Live Calendar (website). These Birthdays are then treated as a "new" calendar on my phone and I can have it set in a different color. As soon as I remove a friend from facebook, the birthday will be removed from the subscribed calendar (well, not "instantly", but during the next sync), therefore from my Live calendar as well...
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of course, removing your own FB account from your phone won't delete these calendars. Your FB account still exists and syncs to your Live online calendar. You would have to unsubscribe from your FB Birthday calendar as well, using the Live Calendar website.
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I should also mention that the FB Birthday subscription to your Live Calendar is "read only", you can't modify or edit dates for these subscriptions from your live calendar, but only the FB calendar.
I'm having the same issue and it's really annoying. I've previously had to remove my Facebook account and then re-add it and since then I've had duplicate birthdays for Facebook contacts. I don't want to remove fb accounts again and risk getting triple entries.
Tomorrow I will be trying to contact MS or windows phone support to find a solution to this problem. It cannot be that hard to fix. I will post here when I find anything out.
Anyone find a solution for this? Its extremely annoying and frustrating, especially when MS doesn't care to try and fix what should be something very easy on their end.
Solution for duplicates problem
I know, this thread is old, but I have been confronted with exactly the same problem. I disconnected my facebook account and reconnected it - after that I had double trouble with my birthday entries.
No matter how you got duplicates (or like in my case even triples!) - the solution is actually really simple.
I assume in the following that your live account is correctly connected with your facebook account (click here to check that)
The resolve the problem, do the following step by step:
First of all: Look that every birthday, which is not from facebook, comes from a contact in your contact list (yeah, I know, this step sucks...).
After this, you should only have birthdays in your birthday calendar which either come from facebook or from your contact list. Ready? Good.
Delete the birthday calendar. Just click on its name on the left and then click on "Delete". Confirm the security question.
After this, there shouldn't be a birthday calendar any more. Else refresh the page by pressing F5 and/or repeat this whole step. If it won't disappear, remove the connection between live.com and facebook and try again.
Now create a new birthday calendar. But wait! Not by creating a new calendar, but clicking on the "New" entry on the top and then on "birthday calendar"! Give it a name (or leave it as it is) and click on "Save".
Enter the properties of your newly created calendar (click its name on the left) and click on "Refresh" somewhere in the middle of the page. If your live account is connected with facebook, live.com will get all those birthdays for you and save them in your live birthday calendar - but only one per facebook contact.
Of course, if you have entered the birthday in your live contact record as well as in facebook, you'll get two birthday entries in your live calendar - but I think you'll get over that. Or just remove it from your live contact.
I hope this will help everybody with duplicate birthday entries from facebook in their live calendar.
Greetings
relexx