I know that while creating a new appointment, WM6/Office Mobile does not have the capability to let you set a different time zone for that appointment -like Outlook on a PC. I have searched for quite a while on this site and elsewhere using different combinations of seach phrases to locate a solution to this - a hack or a addon application or a replacement for the built in calendar program with this capability - either freeware or commercial. It is a strong irritant for me because at least half of the entries in my calendar need to be created with time zones set to a zone different from mine. Each time I have to do a calculation in my mind to add or subtract the difference before creating an appointment. If I dont do that and then I go travelling all appointments get shifted to wrong time slots. Anyway to a cut a long story short - I did find an application called TimeZones on www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php which seems to do exactly what I need - However that does not work on WM6 !!!! presumably this was written for some older version of WM.
I am sure there are many people out there for whom this will be a very useful feature.
Any help in finding a solution to this will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Several days and no comments! Either I am one of the very few who is bugged by this problem or there is no solution! I am afraid of the later because I didn't even get flamed for not searching before asking!!!!!
Try SPB Traveler. It does exactly what you want.
Thanks a lot. I will give it try right away
Does PocketInformant allow this?
On thie site:
Multiple Alarms, Travel Appointments
Beyond the primary alarm, you can now add secondary alarms, notifications and travel appointments to new and existing appointments
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This was in the manual:
There is almost no difference between the dialog you see when creating a new appointment, and
the one you see when you edit an existing one. The only exception is with Appointment
Timezones which only show up for new appointments.
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I saw this in the Knowledgebase:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=2075185
Thanks guys for your help. Of the two Pocketinformant is more like what I needed. Many of the goodies in SPB Traveller are already available on Worldmate (free version). Thanks again for the suggestions
Hi All,
I've got a problem on my Diamond TouchFLO 3D,
I didn't know why but now my Diamond only can show the next day appointemts...
But before I can show NEXT appointemts even the appointemts is come on few days.
I've try to HARD RESET but no use. Did any one has an idea for it? Thanks a lot.
p.s.
But if I close the TouchFLO 3D and go back to "Calendar" with "Today" is work fine...
Hmmm, I experience the same problem here. I have appointments in my calendar for today, but the only thing I see in the home screen of TF3D is my first appointment tomorrow... It may have started when I flashed Elite 2.0 ROM this weekend, but I'm not sure. Anyone?
Same here....
It says that tomorrow is my day off and the 2nd event is that I have to work today....usually it's the other way around....First my workday (today) and afterwards as a 2nd event day off (tomorrow)
Hi guys, this has been discussed many times, if you search you will find many other threads.
In short, this is what the Diamond does - you cannot change it. It will show 1-2 events at the same time and also a whole day event like someones birthday. If you want more you will have to install a third party calendar.
Krillo said:
Hi guys, this has been discussed many times, if you search you will find many other threads.
In short, this is what the Diamond does - you cannot change it. It will show 1-2 events at the same time and also a whole day event like someones birthday. If you want more you will have to install a third party calendar.
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Yes, this is a known issue, but I'm asking if exist any app compatible with Flou3D interface...
Krillo said:
Hi guys, this has been discussed many times, if you search you will find many other threads.
In short, this is what the Diamond does - you cannot change it. It will show 1-2 events at the same time and also a whole day event like someones birthday. If you want more you will have to install a third party calendar.
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Hi Krillo, Thank you for your reply but I think you are miss understand what I'm ask. I know what you said but my problem is:
TouchFLO 3D - Calendar just only can show next day appointemts. That's means if today is Monday and I've an appointemt on Friday. The TouchFLO 3D - Calendar Tap do not show any appointemt untill to Thursday, Then the TouchFLO 3D - Calendar can show I've an appointemt on tomorrow (Friday)
But if I close the TouchFLO 3D and switch to Today Calendar. All appointemts show correctly. Do you have any idea of that?
Thanks
I have the save problem....
It is for reasons like this that I think TF3D is not as good as SPB Mobile Shell which is now my preferred system.... This programme shows 3-4 appointments on the today screen and they could be days away. Surely showing these is very important, so why is TF3D not able to? CHANGE TO SPB!!!!
Is there any way to manually set the first day of the week? Specifically to Saturday? I only ask because that's the first day of my company's week and it would make using the calender app much easier.
go into calendar > Menu > Tools > Options > second item '1st day of week'
hope this is what you were looking for..
OOOPPPSSS!!! ... Sorry I should look before I post!.. It only Allows Sunday or Monday... Many apologies..
This only allows Monday or Sunday to be set, I've already tried this, I would need some registry key to edit or a special cab to install.
have you seen this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403106
under other calendar hacks..
This just sets which days are working days, my schedule is completely random and runs Saturday-Friday, every day is still a working day, I just need it to start on Saturday instead of Monday or Sunday.
By the way thanks for the replies so far, I really appreciate the help.
I find the WM7 calendar to be the worst feature of the phone. No Week view, no colour organising, no config settings etc etc
But what's really bugging me is the default time slots when you add an appointment. I run a rehearsal studio and the majority of the appointments I book are 3 or 4 hours.
The calendars defaults go 0mins, 30mins, 1hr, 90mins, 2hr, All day.
Does anyone know if these defaults can be changed to something that is more useful to me. I've looked in the registry but not really sure what I should be looking for.
And how come there are no alternative calendars on Marketplace??
You don't get a straight up week view, but scrolling up or down to jump days is simple and quick. Or, just pop to the month view and tap the day you want. That's also fast.
For a new appointment, the last option is Custom, and will allow any time frame you choose.
No answers for your other issues. Maybe these coming updates will alter some calendar features and functions.
Thanks but that doesn't really help at all...
Firstly no Days when scrolling, just dates. Clients always ask for "next thursday" or "sunday evening" etc. I have to work out of look up what the date would be then
Secondly the custom option, you need to enter the end time in manually. its just a pain when you have to enter somthing like 18:30.
Copy and paste would solve 50% of the issues as a lot of clients can just be copied and pasted to their new date.
Other than this issue, I actually really like the phone.
Yes, you get days and dates when scrolling. If I tap my calendar tile, which takes me to Today, scroll up (for force the calendar down), it shows, right at the top, Friday, March 04, 2011.
If you dont know the date for the thursday after next, just tap the Month button at the bottom. BAM, Thursday after next is the 17th.
Copy and Paste will arrive shortly, though I doubt very much it will alleviate the issues you state.
on mine, the top of the calendar just displays "04 MARCH 2011" whether I'm in agenda view or day view. No day.
copy and paste would help as with most clients I just copy their 7-10pm slot and paste it to next week 7pm... in theory!
On WM6.5 I used "agenda one" and it did everything I needed. I find it odd that there is not a single replacement calendar available on marketplace.
What is this "WM7" of which you speak?
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on mine, the top of the calendar just displays "04 MARCH 2011" whether I'm in agenda view or day view. No day.
copy and paste would help as with most clients I just copy their 7-10pm slot and paste it to next week 7pm... in theory!
On WM6.5 I used "agenda one" and it did everything I needed. I find it odd that there is not a single replacement calendar available on marketplace.
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That's strange. My calender also shows the day as well as the date at the top of the screen.
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That's strange. My calender also shows the day as well as the date at the top of the screen.
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Does anyone know if there is a setting for this??
My HD7 doesnt show a day either. Odd that it is different for different people.
I have to agree with the OP. The calendar is truly awful. I too do not have days listed in agenda or day view, only the date ! I seem to recall seeing in a early preview video of WP7 in the monthly view it showed colour bars on the days to indicate which entry belonged to different calendars. But mine doesn't do this, and it would be nice if it did. It would allow me to differentiate between work and personal appointments etc. whilst in monthly view which is what I use the most for a "glance and go" experience.
My solution, to continue carrying my TP2, and continue using Pocket Informant, IMHO, the best calendar available. Until WP7 allows the option to colour code days, support categories, allows multiple icons on a day, in monthly view, then I don't see any other option.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing WP7, I love my HD7, but I always knew version 1 would be lacking in functionality, and I'm a heavy calender user, often with 10 plus appointments a day, in multiple categories, so WP7 just doesn't cut in at the moment, which is my only real gripe at present.
Settings --> Region and Language --> Long Date
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I seem to recall seeing in a early preview video of WP7 in the monthly view it showed colour bars on the days to indicate which entry belonged to different calendars.
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Mine does this (Windows Live is blue, Outlook is Red)
Scratch that... wow... the monthly view USED to, I swear. Maybe because I disabled the Live calendar for a time... hmmm
Colours in the Calendar are used to distinguish between the calendars of different accounts, you cannot assign colours to events without putting the event into the appropriate account.
For instance, the calendar in Windows Live might be purple, and the one from Google Mail might be red. Your event will either be purple or red depending on whether it resides in the Windows Live calendar or the Google one.
Changing the Long date in the Regional settings does not give you the weekday in the Calendar app.
Odd, maybe the date thing is a US v. Euro issue?
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Change display language to US and then the date can include the day.
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Change display language to US and then the date can include the day.
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Thanks. I can confirm that works.
Are there any other effects of changing the display language from Uk to US ?
I'd still like to find out about displaying a coloured bar on individual days within the monthly view denoting which calendar the entries belong too. I'm sure I saw this feature in a video preview ???
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Change display language to US and then the date can include the day.
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Yes, this certainly works. It is a long-standing problem with MS Phones; the old Windows-Mobile suffered from the same problem, but at least it was possible to tweak the registry to fix it.
For some reason, Microsoft seems to believe that Europeans do not use the day-name in their calendars. . I wish there was some way of telling them that they are wrong
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Thanks. I can confirm that works.
Are there any other effects of changing the display language from Uk to US ?
I'd still like to find out about displaying a coloured bar on individual days within the monthly view denoting which calendar the entries belong too. I'm sure I saw this feature in a video preview ???
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I haven't come across any weird things. There are 12/24 hour settings somewhere which I changed to 24 hour as well as tweaking the short and long date display to be as I want them. Quite happy with that all now.
Hello all, hopefully I am putting this in the right place.
What I'd like to do is use minimalist text to create a widget which would automatically give me the day and date of 30 days in the future from the current date. (So today being 9/26/11, it would read Weds. 10/26/11)
More complicated, I'd also like to create one for 30 WEEKDAYS in the future, but one step at a time.
Is this possible? Would it require Tasker or something similar? Any help or tips in the right direction would be great. I work in the court system, and these widgets would be a huge help through my day.