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jackburton	2011-09-15 , 03:00
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A fixed build is in extras-devel now at version 0.0.10.

An old, broken .pro file got into the mix from a previous build.

I'll promote to testing again when it becomes available to do so.

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klinglerware	2011-09-15 , 16:11
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It's very promising. I just tried to update my past-due tasks to the current date. It pulled most, but not all of my tasks. The only thing that I can think of that might be different about those tasks that weren't pulled could be that those tasks were ones where I have changed the status (pending to complete back to pending) several times.

Once I combine this with an alarmed command to run this automatically, this should improve the usefulness of the task list considerably for me.

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	PMaff	2011-09-15 , 16:49
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Originally Posted by jackburton

This is a simple wrapper around the calendar-backend API that allows for:
import ics files

export ics files

deleting completed tasks (batch)

moving late tasks to today (batch)

It's been in extras-devel for awhile now, but finally added the bug tracker and promoted to testing.

I am using it to script import and export operations from the Maemo calendar since I do not connect my phone to my company's Exchange server. I think I have finer control this way.

Hope it's useful and will see more use in extras-testing.

Is your tool capable of importing the diverse repeating events like pointed out in this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36161 ?

Thanks in advance.

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jackburton	2011-09-15 , 17:33
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Originally Posted by klinglerware

It's very promising. I just tried to update my past-due tasks to the current date. It pulled most, but not all of my tasks. The only thing that I can think of that might be different about those tasks that weren't pulled could be that those tasks were ones where I have changed the status (pending to complete back to pending) several times.

Once I combine this with an alarmed command to run this automatically, this should improve the usefulness of the task list considerably for me.

If you can recreate the conditions, feel free to file a bug and I'll take a look.

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jackburton	2011-09-16 , 00:59
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Originally Posted by PMaff

Is your tool capable of importing the diverse repeating events like pointed out in this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36161 ?

Thanks in advance.

All my tool does is call the calendar-backend api to import and export calendars.

I went ahead and created a test calendar with a repeating event that cannot be created via the calendar GUI. I then used my tool to import the calendar and it shows correctly.

This entry repeats every 10 days for 5 occurrences:

Code:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
PRODID://Nokia Corporation//Maemo5 Calendar PR1.2//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20110217T023020Z
SUMMARY:Trash Day
DESCRIPTION:Take the damn trash out
UID:3
DTSTART:20110216T200000Z
DTEND:20110216T201500Z
ATTACH:
SEQUENCE:0
LAST-MODIFIED:20110217T023020Z
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=10;COUNT=5
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110921T200000Z
DURATION:PT1M
REPEAT:1
ACTION:AUDIO
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

I suggest creating some valid .ics file in a tool of your choice and try to import it and see if it shows up right.

BTW. The details screen of the calendar just shows that it repeats every day (the FREQ= value). There may be frequncies that the calendar-gui make choke on. I don't know. Something to try out on your own.

Also, don't edit the event from the GUI or it will revert to repeating every day. The interval will get wiped out. It looks like we'd need a different program to make detailed edits outside of the default calendar GUI.

Last edited by jackburton; 2011-09-16 at 01:07. Reason: More information

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	woody14619	2011-09-16 , 01:50
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I've found the same to be true when syncing with Nokia PC Suite. You can set more complex alarm times, patterns, exceptions, etc. It syncs correctly, but editing it on the device makes it go wonky. Sucks that they implemented a great system under the hood and the crippled it with a half-*** GUI. I'd have much preferred text fields to a listbox...

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jackburton	2011-09-16 , 11:41
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Originally Posted by woody14619

I've found the same to be true when syncing with Nokia PC Suite. You can set more complex alarm times, patterns, exceptions, etc. It syncs correctly, but editing it on the device makes it go wonky. Sucks that they implemented a great system under the hood and the crippled it with a half-*** GUI. I'd have much preferred text fields to a listbox...

Yeah. There's a lot of stuff under the hood that works really well. For example the calendar and tasks support categories, but that is not exposed in the UI.

I had started work on a new GUI to manage the built-in tasks that exposes these things, but I have gotten delayed. I hope to resume soon and maybe get *something* out to extras-devel.

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klinglerware	2011-09-16 , 16:02
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Originally Posted by jackburton

If you can recreate the conditions, feel free to file a bug and I'll take a look.

Thanks. I was able to recreate it via some "test" entries and will file a bug shortly...

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jackburton	2011-09-18 , 19:15
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Originally Posted by klinglerware

Thanks. I was able to recreate it via some "test" entries and will file a bug shortly...

Thanks. I think I found the issue. I updated the bug tracker and pushed a new package to extras-devel. It should show up in extras-testing at some point as well.