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Create appointments from email?

Anyone seen any kind of plugin or something that would allow you to transfer an email to an appointment or task?
thanks

mpovolo said:
Anyone seen any kind of plugin or something that would allow you to transfer an email to an appointment or task?
thanks
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When you use a WM6 Phone in combination with Outlook 2007 you can use the "flag" feature. When you Flag an email either in Outlook or in Pocket Outlook it will show up as Task in Outlook. Unfortunately this "task" is only shown in Outlook not on the Mobile Phone. But maybe that's enough for your needs?

Birthdays to Calendar

Hi dear developers,
Do you know if its possible to make pOutlook contacts that have birthdays filled to have it assingned as an all day event in Calendar ???
Unfortunally i have to Sync my Calendar/Tasks with work PC outlook and Contacts with my Home PC outlook so i guess i could not use the sync trick to do this.
I have a terrible memory for birthdays (once i have forget mine ) and i could not use that great birthday today plugin with TF3D...
Is it possible to do it programmatically?
Thanks for the help.
CreativeBR

Well I sync my Diamond with Outlook and I don`t have any problem with that ... all birthday`s are displayed as all day events on Diamond

All my birthdays are displayed as all day events as well...! Only annoying thing is, every time Outlook adds an alarm reminder to the newly added birthdays. When I forget to delete them, I will be remindered 15 minutes before midnight... I already cleared the Default Reminder option.

Has everybody a solutuoin for this problem? I have the same problem as CreativeBR. When i sync my outlook calendar with active sync, i have no birthdays.

you must sync the contacts
hi biersoeldner,
in order to get the all day events synced to your phone (via activesync) you have to sync your contacts and not only the calendar. the birthdays are coming out of the contact entries and are only displayed in your outlook.

I have synced (in activesync) the contacts and the calendar. Now i have checked the details of the contacts and there are no birthdays.
Some birthdays I have written direct in the calendra an they also not in my xda. I use Outlook 2007 an HTC ROM-Version: 1.93.407.1 GER.
Currently I have checkt birthday, which were in the near future and lock they are there. I belive I shoud check the differenz between this persons!
thx for the answer!

I put birthdays into the calendar as standard all-days events, repeating on the same day every year (and set an alarm of 5 days out to remember to buy that card/present!). You don't touch the contact entries then. Will happily sync between PC outlook and mobile outlook then.

I had found a workaround for my problem, if i delete the series of appointments and i create it again, than is the appointment on the pda calendra. Could someone explain me this?

None of this could help me because i need to sync Calendar/Tasks with the work outlook and it has so many business contacts (that i dont want in my personal mobile).
Thats why i cant send my personal contact birthdays to outlook and receive the all day events via calendar.
That free birthday today plugin fits nicely to what i need but i cant have it running with TF3D.
Maybe SecondToday app could help me... But run it just for one today plugin 8(

since someone mentioned birthday problems in calendar...
does anyone of you have the problem when synchronizing the device...
birthdays are synced, they r showed in the device, but they will disappear in outlook... but if you do a search it's there, it just won't show up in the calendar view...
i currently need to re-enter my contacts b-day to make it visible again in outlook...
anyone having the same problem too???

The only way I've ever been able to reliably add birthdays is add a new recurring event, starting on the year of birth. Then each subsequent event has a number in brackets indicating the age that year.
Contacts, plug-ins, any other way just didn't seem to work for me.

well...
My pc sync very well with pda all contacts and birthdays... but, the problem is that birthday, doesn't show in tf3d! What can I do? there is any tweak for this problem?

contacts Sync fails

Hi,
I have a laptop running WinXP Sp3 office 2007.
Trying to sync with my diamond touch with Active Sync (AKA - "AS") It fails to sync some of the contacts while it syncs the rest of them... with no particular reason !
Can anyone give me a better sync software than the carapy MS AS ?
Thanks.
Daniel

Do you use iContact or another Software like this?
Try one: Save your last Folders of synchronisation.
Then turn it of - everything.
The do synchronisation again (and so without contacts).
then activate your former things to synchronize, with contacts, too.
I had the same problem - and this worked for me.
Pierre

Reminders problem

Hi to everybody.
This is my first post to this awesome forum. Without this forum and / or community, I think my HTC Diamond would be in the bin somewhere... but as we have this wonderful thing here I use it and with great feeling.
So my huge respect to everybody who have contributed their knowledge to public use.
BUT - as always when messing around with tweaks and firmware etc.. some bugs will occure.
at the momnet i have slight problem with reminders. I have surfed around net and this forum to find answer but no result so far.
many of the Diamond users have a problem, when reminder sounds dissapear whtn switching profiles. this is not the case at the moment.
when I create new appointment in my phone - i will get proper reminder sound with popup window describing event.
when appointment was created in Outlook and transfered to the phone via sync, I have no reminder sound, no popup window. only when I turn my phone screen active i can se open calendar - wich indicates that I have appointment coming.
when I edit this appointment (created in Outlook) in my phone, example - setting a new reminder time, there is no change in behaviour. still I get opened calendar and no reminder sound or popup calendar.
At the same time reminder in my Outlook in PC work just fine.
Im using Second today and SPB Diary for calendar app.
P.S. tried also omnisoft reminder fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1272677
Any Ideas people?
Hard SPL 1.40 Olinex unsigned
Radio 1.09.25.23
Rom A.Z.T.O.R.
v2.03.401.2 WWE

check in outlook
i had this problem - with a silly solution. i checked my outlook calendar entry, and there i did not set reminder. if you are getting appointment from outlook, make sure you have set a reminder in outlook (like 15 mins before or 30 mins before). it will then work fine.
hope this solves.
gl!

thanks for the reply, unfortunately no help.
just created two apointments with different times.
Appointment A - created in outlook
Appointment B - created in phone.
synchronized.
Both appointments (A and B) show reminder (5 min) in outlook and in phone.
When reminder time occures:
Appointment A - no sound, When swiching phone screen on - calendar is open on screen.
Appointment B - reminder works just fine.
I had another test with Tasks:
created two taks and synced with outlook.
Task created in Outlook - Outlook reminder ok. Phone reminder ok.
Task created in Phone - Outlook reminder ok. Phone reminder ok.
so with tasks its good.

What version of Outlook and Windows?

Davey101 said:
What version of Outlook and Windows?
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Windows XP SP3
MS outlook 07 SP1

Hi again,
Now I decided to try maybe something went wrong with installations and reinstalled everything again in my phone starting from Hard SPL. Cleared and formatted Storage. Still the same problem.
Although there is another isssue that might be connected with this mess.
BTW - Im using Funambol client (tried different versions) to sync calendar with outlook. I have done this a long time now and never before had this kind of reminder problems.
The issue Im talking about is - there is no way I can sync calendar or tasks with MS ActiveSync. It just freezes on "looking of changes". Other things sync fine - contacts and rest of the data in different programs (MS money, SPB wallet etc...). Reinstalled Activesync on PC, compacted outlook file, restored calendar from server. Calendar sync with cable still hangs, with Funambol the outlook syncs like a charm.
Today after installing everything, I tried the calendar sync after each component installation no luck. Even tried change data type when syncing (vCalendar, SIF).
Would the next step is to try different ROMs?

I would suggest that the next step is to reinstall outlook on your pc. Or, as a minimum, start again with a brand new outlook pst file and try to get activesync working. If you get it working you can then copy your data from the old file to the new one.

did following:
uninstalled A.Z.T.O.R ROM and installed XBMOD v2.00 instead, additionally XBMOD manila 1.8.1. fix.
now Active sync works fine. Even calendar with reminders. This is for cable sync.
Funambol site is having some maintenance, so I can´t test it for now. when its up again, I will post result here.

so I believe I narrowed it down:
IT MUST BE FUNAMBOL ISSUE.
as I reinstalled everything that can be installed and tried lot of different possibilities I concluded that is must be funambol that messes things up:
1. change of ROM doesnt help
2. change of Manila doesnt help
3. using standard or modified Roms makes no differents
4. reminders synced with Active Sync via Cable works fine on both: PC and Phone
5. reminder for Tasks synced via funambol works fine
6. calendar reminder created in Phone, synced to outlook via funambol works fine on both: PC and Phone.
7. calendar reminder created in outlook and synced to phone via funambol doesn't work - only calendar pops open when there is reminder time.
8. when syncing, tried SIF and vCard. no difference.
And this is too bad. I was so happy with funambol.

Notes sync with outlook notes?

I am saving the less important user credentials as well as some other short stuff like registry keys and other short notes on the notes in Outlook/Exchange.
On my HD2 with WM 6.5, I used to sync these notes and and also automatically had them at home too when I synced the pda with my home outlook.
Now with Desire HD, it does not sync the outlook notes.
Is there a way to sync outlook notes under froyo?
Somebody knows of some other solution to achieve this? I usually work on the desktop and therefore also want to administer and use the notes-information there, but it should also be safed on the pda for use out of office.
Outlook notes where also handy, because they followed automatically the move to a new pc and I do not have to install some additional program.
I know of secure solutions like KeePassDroid, but it seems to be a bit too complicated to handle when used frequently.

Hi,
I am using Documents To Go to sync my exchange stuff, I can choose which folders are synced. Although I do not use the notes myself I am quite sure they can be synchronized as well.
Only hickup I see (do not like it myself) is that it does not sync with two PC's at a time. This means if You sync with two PC's there will be two folders on your SD card, not one.
Maybe this would be a solution. If You do not want to edit the files on your device, there is no need for the full version either,
regards,
Ruud