What is the best application which will allow viewing a list of calendar appointments between two dates on one screen ?
(Correct me if I am wrong, but WM5 does not allow you to see a list of calander appointments from different days on the same screen).
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Andrew
Pocket Breeze
My calendar is free and does that, see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=53834
Hello,
I am looking for an applications that is able to show the newly added appointments in Outlook Mobile.
The case is: My girl and I sync both our phones calendar to Windows Vista running Outlook 2007.
I would like to have an application that can show me the newly added appointments for the last x days (user configurable).
I've checked the appointments currently in Outlook and I think that when somebody can create a program that filters on the date an appointment is modifief, the program would more or less do the trick.
I am able to do a little programming in VB but I have no clue on how to create programs for Windows Mobile and connect to Outlook.
If somebody could try and make something or give me some tips on where to start please do so.
Thanks in advance
Nobody has a clue?? Or is nobody interested in this kind of functionality?
Possible?
der_roedie said:
Nobody has a clue?? Or is nobody interested in this kind of functionality?
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I don't need this myself, but thought I could make a program to do this fairly easily. However, I realized that PocketOutlook doesn't store the creation/modification date, so I don't know how to do that on the Pocket PC.
However, if you synchronize with the desktop Outlook, you can define a view in Outlook where you add the field created, and you can easily see when the items were created. Maybe that can work for you?
Hello all,
It seems that TD2 does not insert birthdays from contacts in the agenda. The solutions would be that you manually add them to the agenda (of course not a real option) or sync contacts with Outlook, which will put them into agenda as well. I personally would prefer not to use Outlook for my contacts.
Is there a fix that birthdays are automatically put in agenda as well?
Thanks!
Am I really the only one who is waiting for an answer?
The TD2 does not, as you say, add birthdays into the Calendar, but Outlook does, and these birthday calendar entries then get synchronized back to the TD2.
The only way I can see a "fix" coming is by programming an app for the TD2 which scans contacts and inserts the birthdays into the calendar, checking of course that they're not already there - I guess this would need to be run manually every time you add a new birthday into a contact, or at least periodically (maybe it could run in background once per day), but as far as I know no such app exists yet.
To my mind, synching with Outlook is the best way, because not only does it solve the problem very well, it also means you have a backup of all your contacts and calendar entries. To me it's a no-brainer.
I've just had a quick check on my calendar and all my contacts birthdays are in there. Even anniversarys are showing
Graffen said:
I've just had a quick check on my calendar and all my contacts birthdays are in there. Even anniversarys are showing
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Yep - you synch with Outlook, correct?
I am syncing with outlook, I have been for some devices now. So the birthday reminders are showing up as allday appointments in my calendar. The reminder time for all those birthdays is 2 days in advance, the calendar shows all that correctly. However, I never get one of those reminders!! All other appointment reminders work fine and so do the task reminders, so there's nothing wrong with my notification queue. But the birtday reminders aren't popping up. On my old cruise I got a reminder two days in advance AND on the birthday itself. Now I get none of them.
What's causing this? Can anyone confirm that you have or don't have birthday reminders? I'd appreciate any reactions.
I've found this information in the blackstone forum. I can see that D2 is adding "calendar.exe /allday" notifications to the queue too. I guess memmaid, which I'm using, deletes those notifications.
It was indeed Memmaid that caused the problem, deleting the /allday notifications. I e-mailed their support, hoping they'll fix it. In the mean time, I excluded all notification queue maintenance from the cleaning schedule and recreated the notifications for all my birthdays via ActiveSync.
Gsfg46 said:
Hello all,
It seems that TD2 does not insert birthdays from contacts in the agenda. The solutions would be that you manually add them to the agenda (of course not a real option) or sync contacts with Outlook, which will put them into agenda as well. I personally would prefer not to use Outlook for my contacts.
Is there a fix that birthdays are automatically put in agenda as well?
Thanks!
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I'm really annoyed with this problem too. The bigger problem is I'm using an Apple macbook to sync, so using Outlook is out of the question. Looks like I'll have to add all the reminder myself
Having a look around the forum, there appears not to be a quick and easy solution to this.
It's not ideal to have birthdays in your contacts and then separately add them in your calendar as appointments (like others, I think it defeats the objective).
There is a software, not yet tried it: http://www.xoddy.com/products/
but it says its only for WM5, not sure if WM6 will support.
Looking forward to an answer or someone to develop a simple software that will resolve the issue - apologises I don't have the knowledge to do this.
Tidaku said:
I'm really annoyed with this problem too. The bigger problem is I'm using an Apple macbook to sync, so using Outlook is out of the question. Looks like I'll have to add all the reminder myself
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That's one of the penalties of not using a single-vendor solution. If you used Microsoft Outlook with your Microsoft WM phone, you'd be fine. Using an Apple computer with a Microsoft phone OS, you're bound to hit some snags.
I'm sure it's the same for people using iPhones with Windows PCs. Manufacturers tend to make their own products work better together than they do with the competition's products, which makes sense!
Tidaku said:
I'm really annoyed with this problem too. The bigger problem is I'm using an Apple macbook to sync, so using Outlook is out of the question. Looks like I'll have to add all the reminder myself
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I use syncmate to sync ical and address book, within ical prefs, you can show birthdays, these will then sync onto phone
I used to sync with outlook, but it had a habit of changing appointment/birthday dates, usually makes them a day earlier, but only for some, have had no probs with syncmate
Hi
I'm working on a program which will provide various notification related functions not normally included on Windows Mobile.
1) Will add contact's birthdays and anniversaries into the calendar.
2) Will give audible alerts at regular intervals like most mobile phones for text messages/missed calls/emails to get your attention.
3) Option to silence the alerts during the night at a schedule you can select, plus also turn the phone off over night and turn on the next day, good for battery life.
I'll post when it is finished.
Regards
Phil
sounds great!!!
sounds great ... Have you just begun or are you about to finish?
Hi
It is almost finished, I'm just testing it at the moment. It's based an application I did for the Kaiser.
Regards
Phil
Sounds good PhilipL!
I already programmed a solution for this, which will add all birthday reminders to your calendar (without the need for outlook) but it's in german. I'll translate and upload it shortly.
Here it is BirthdaysToCalendar, derived from a sample application included in MS Visual Studio 2008. It will add all or selected birthdays to your calendar.
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, 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
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is this PhilipL's app?
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is this PhilipL's app?
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No, this is my app -
Hey guys, just a few questions:
-if you add birthday data to your contacts, will you get notified on someone's birthday?
-> I ask this because I can see some of my contacts' birthdays in htc calendar as an all day event (how do you add events?)
-Is there an easier way adding tasks to manila homescreen than with calendar appointments? for example just typing what you need to do and then seeing it on the screen?
best regards,
Buembel
Contacts within TF3D are not conected I assume thats what your using, birthdays that show up are usually because they have been added in outlook contacts
to add a new event go to menu in calender and add new event and fill in the information need whether it be all day or hourly etc.
Not sure about your last question sorry
ozmoran said:
Contacts within TF3D are not conected I assume thats what your using, birthdays that show up are usually because they have been added in outlook contacts
to add a new event go to menu in calender and add new event and fill in the information need whether it be all day or hourly etc.
Not sure about your last question sorry
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thanks for your answer, now I've found an application which does this work
anyone who knows something about my task-question?
best regards,
Buembel
you can always disable the Home screen and just use windows then you can check tasks etc in options and then they will show up on home screen ..........does that make sense?
Has anyone found a way to filter your appointments by category in either SPB MS 3.5 or Manila??
I have both my and my wife's calendar entries on my phone, categorized, and I would like to make it so that only my appointments show on the agenda view of SPB MS or on the calendar tab of Manila. I can't find a setting anywhere, so I'm guessing one doesn't exist. I'm happy to do a reg edit if anyone knows what I need to change. Thanks!