Contacts may have lots of information including birthday! Entering birthday, does it mean that, you will be notified of the birthday, or is it just there?
Did anybody try that?
Yes, you will get notified of that persons birthday.
no alert
I tried to set a birthday in a contact a day ahead. Didn't get any notification of the birthday. Is there anything I have to set in order to have work?
lidholm said:
Yes, you will get notified of that persons birthday.
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how will you get it in a standard winmo environment sir? can u explain us..
seems it doesn't
Is there another way to get it to work with contacts birthday???
additonal tool/software
Is there any third-party software or tool which uses contacts birthday to send alerts and notifications ??
shemeri said:
Is there any third-party software or tool which uses contacts birthday to send alerts and notifications ??
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i use Vbirthday..... it works fine. it shows you the actual (or the next) age of the contact, and the days to the date of BD... it synchronizes with your outlook contacts but you can add new "events" (birtdays, anniversary etc). hope this useful. bye
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medfcara said:
i use Vbirthday..... it works fine. it shows you the actual (or the next) age of the contact, and the days to the date of BD... it synchronizes with your outlook contacts but you can add new "events" (birtdays, anniversary etc). hope this useful. bye
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Just tried to install Vbirthday and it does not work with my HTC Diamond :-(
Is there any other alternative which sends notifications and alerts on birthdays??
Tried NS Birthday but does not send notifications, it only displays birthdays in one place!
sir, read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424381
I have found that once you set a birthday for a contact after a few sync's with your Calander and PDA with Activesync it appears in the calander as a recurring event. Then you can edit the recurring event in Outlook calander and sert alarms/whatever.
Alternative is to just add birthday /anniversary/sacred day...whatever as a recurring event and add the alarms you want (best with outlook and then sync)
Job done
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Active Sync / Windows Mobile Device Center & Outlook do that for you.
Sync. your device with Outlook to mark birthdays on your calendar.
Birthdays will show up as a full day event.
Utility
It would otherwise be nice to have a little tool that looksup your contact book and from there, it check all birthdays and build a database with notifications and alerts
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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?
Hi,
I have a lot of friends and colleagues birthday on my contacts that I used to show up on my today screen to remind me everytime when I was using O2 Atom Exec.
Does anyone knows way around / application / how to show up reminder of friends birthday from contacts anywhere WITHIN touchflo 3d ?
Thanks for helping me, it's very important to me
denis_sianto said:
Hi,
I have a lot of friends and colleagues birthday on my contacts that I used to show up on my today screen to remind me everytime when I was using O2 Atom Exec.
Does anyone knows way around / application / how to show up reminder of friends birthday from contacts anywhere WITHIN touchflo 3d ?
Thanks for helping me, it's very important to me
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I am assuming that you have updated the BDAY field in the contacts on your diamond.
Now.. sync the diamond with the outlook on your PC.
Outlook will take up those dates from your diamond.. and update those into the contact files on outlook.
Those dates, will now also hit the Calendar on the outlook and individual reminders will be created for those dates.
Sync the calendar on your outlook with your diamond.. and you should have all the bday reminders set up and showing on your diamond (on the appropriate days)
All the best
Thanks a lot Lordraj !!
You are the best !!
denis_sianto said:
Hi,
I have a lot of friends and colleagues birthday on my contacts that I used to show up on my today screen to remind me everytime when I was using O2 Atom Exec.
Does anyone knows way around / application / how to show up reminder of friends birthday from contacts anywhere WITHIN touchflo 3d ?
Thanks for helping me, it's very important to me
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Once you sync with outlook you will have the memo on your today TFL, remember though that the calendar always display 1 day event and one normal event unles you chenge some set up.
sirx said:
...........unles you chenge some set up.
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how? thanx
medfcara said:
how? thanx
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Yep I'm interested in this, too.
sirx said:
Once you sync with outlook you will have the memo on your today TFL, remember though that the calendar always display 1 day event and one normal event unles you chenge some set up.
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how do u change it ?
I already wrote to HTC, requesting to give us back either the possibility of using plugins/items in the home tab with TF3D or at least integrate a possibility to config the home tab with birthdays out of contacts, number of future appointments shown, size of clock, number of todos shown etc.
Please also contact HTC and ask for this. If we are all asking and telling them, that without this feature the TF3D is just half as usefull... we will succeed!
Sign here:
>> SIGN PETITION TO HTC: Please give us Today Plugins back in TF3D!
Dennis
Hello,
Can anyone tell me how you use the agenda birthday reminder with HTC Diamond ? I've just bought the phone and sync it with mail2web (outlook exchange service on Internet). The phone is not reminding me birthdays which is annoying me...
Before, I was using TYNT II with Spb Diary plugin which was great ! It was showing the coming birthdays and also ringing the D-day.
I read that other Diamond users had also this kind of issue. To solve it they manage birthday's on Outlook contact (on their computer) to generate entire day event and then sync it with their phone.
Do you know another way to get this reminder work ?
Thank you
i HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM... HOW CAN i USE BIRTH REMINDER ON TOUCH FLO.
ANY BODY KNOW???
LEO
It seems that no one else has this kind of problem....
i do, but i haven't any solutions for this ****ty bug
Finally I've manually created reminders in the calendar...
I have all the birthday in the Outlook (like meeting)
and all ok after sync the Phone with the Outlook (to outlook exchange server at work via the Internet)
Just open the Outlook and add new Item in the Calender , cycle it evey year as u add the item (Press on the Recurrence button), that all ...
I have added birthdays to my contacts in outlook. Is there away to make those show up on the today screen? its kinda odd the calender is only for meetings or perhaps i am missing something here.
I assume i could add birthdays by hand in outlook but that kinda defeats the idea when you can have it all in the contact info.
Regards
I use Birthdays 1.2.10, so I don't need to touch the calendar.
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/birthdays/
I know Birthdays 1.2.10 but this programm don't work with manila3d
becaus all today pugins don't work with manila3d
The funniest thing
In also seem to have a birthday related problem.
I bought my diamond several months ago and synced it with my compu (outlook 2007). I just yet noticed it didn't sync all my birthday info. (The info is in he contacts, the birthdays just aren't coming up in my calender, neither on my compu nor on my phone ).
Is there a way to 'update' the calender in such way all birthdays come back to my calender?
Thanks in advance!
Hi all,
If you enter the birthday in outlook contacts, normally a all day event will be created in outlook. please check if this is ok. finally i have turn off the reminders for this events, because the alarm will go on at 11.45 pm by default. This all day events appears on my home sreen in TF3D.
\\yoshi
maybe U can to use a software like mToday and to have 2 Today profiles ... one with manila and other with regular WinMo plugins
http://mobile-sg.com/software/?p=mToday&platform=ppc
I think you need to synchronise it with outlook on your pc for it to take effect. Outlook on the phone isn't smart enough to figure it out by itself apparently, but I've just synched it with my pc, it's showing up in the calendar in outlook and in the calendar on the phone.
Is it possible that there is no any simple WM application to check contacts evey day for birthdays.
Pocket PC should be smarter than some "smartphones"
Hi,
I'm using Pocket Informant 2007, but I can't seem to get it to send meeting requests.
If I cancel a meeting that has attendees, it will put an cancellation email in Pocket Outlook ready to forward to my PC for sending at next Activesync connection, but I can't seem to find a setting that will allow it to send requests to new meetings.
If I use the standard calendar it does send requests. It even lets me chose which email account to use.
Is this a feature that Pocket Informant doesn't support? Rather glaring ommission if it doesn't! I have searched Google, the Pocket Informant manual, the settings and Google searched the forum, but can't seem to find any information either way. This seems to suggest it's a feature that Pocket Informant 2007 doesn't support. Anyone know if v8 supports it if 2007 doesn't?
Thanks
Steve
I use PI v8.51. It definitely lets you choose contacts to invite and sends email to them confirming appointment. I think that this is also supported in PI 2007. It is a basic Outlook function.
You need to open calendar, new appointment, then it will display tabs at the bottom. One of them is for inviting contacts. It wil also ask you if you want them to be notified. It also alllows you to select a category for meeting etc. and to make notes.
Check it out and let me know if you come right.
Regards,
MAC
Hi MAC,
Thanks for the reply. You are right, there is a tab for selecting invitee's. But, when I select a contact, it doesn't give me the choice to send a notification. If I check the outbox (or inbox, sent etc) on Outlook E-Mail there is no email waiting to be sent. If I cancel the meeting, a meeting cancellation email does plonk itself in the Outbox ready to send next time I use Activesync.
The only way to send a meeting invite using PI2007 seems to be to create a meeting with attendee's, sync with my PC, then open the appointment in Outlook on my computer and send the invites from there (it does helpfully tell me that invites haven't been sent). Which seems a bit of a faf!
If I use the default Calender that comes with WM6, and I create a meeting with attendee's, it asks me how I want to send the meeting invite. Just seems strange that such a killer app like PI2007 doesn't have this function and I felt I must be missing something! Maybe that was a short coming of PI2007....
Steve-C said:
Hi MAC,
Thanks for the reply. You are right, there is a tab for selecting invitee's. But, when I select a contact, it doesn't give me the choice to send a notification. If I check the outbox (or inbox, sent etc) on Outlook E-Mail there is no email waiting to be sent. If I cancel the meeting, a meeting cancellation email does plonk itself in the Outbox ready to send next time I use Activesync.
The only way to send a meeting invite using PI2007 seems to be to create a meeting with attendee's, sync with my PC, then open the appointment in Outlook on my computer and send the invites from there (it does helpfully tell me that invites haven't been sent). Which seems a bit of a faf!
If I use the default Calender that comes with WM6, and I create a meeting with attendee's, it asks me how I want to send the meeting invite. Just seems strange that such a killer app like PI2007 doesn't have this function and I felt I must be missing something! Maybe that was a short coming of PI2007....
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It definitely places an email in outbox on mine. Perhaps you need to check on email account to be used in PI.
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Perhaps you need to check on email account to be used in PI.
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I can't even find an option to select an email account!
However I can find options for just about everything else....so I guess it's back to searching.
Thankyou for your help though.
Regards
Steve
MACkjam said:
It definitely places an email in outbox on mine. Perhaps you need to check on email account to be used in PI.
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Sorry to hijack the thread - but I've got PI 8.51 and can't find the setting to tell PI which Outlook account to use to send attendee updates. You seem to be suggesting that such a setting exists - if so, would you mind giving me some direction?
PiperD said:
Sorry to hijack the thread - but I've got PI 8.51 and can't find the setting to tell PI which Outlook account to use to send attendee updates. You seem to be suggesting that such a setting exists - if so, would you mind giving me some direction?
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The option is in Menu>My Informant>Settings>General Application>Send Meeting Requests Via...then select accordingly. On mine only Pocket Outlook is available as an option. I hope this helps.
Regards,
MAC
MACkjam said:
The option is in Menu>My Informant>Settings>General Application>Send Meeting Requests Via...then select accordingly. On mine only Pocket Outlook is available as an option. I hope this helps.
Regards,
MAC
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Thanks - the option is there, but as with yours it only shows Pocket Outlook on mine as well. Oh well!
Flexmail
I can send them through Flexmail (also from Webis). I think that's why they created the option (i can choose)...
Hi all,
Thanks for your help. I finally found the option under settings > Warnings > Update meeting attendees. There are a lot of setting to trawl through!
I haven´t been able to find or to make it work for that matter, I wish that my contacts when I include the birthday, would automatically set a reminder in the calendar, so that when the birthday comes I get notified. I have over 500 contacts, and at least 100 with a birthday date added to it, and no reminder is set in my calendar.
I don't synchronize my phone calendar to any other calendar, because I don´t use my computer at home that much, and the one at work gets audited every other week, and people at work are very peculiar when it comes to personal matters.
I would just like to add the contact, and when including a birthday or anniversary, it would automatically be in my calendar, just like Blackberry did or does.
Any help, would be appreciated,
Thanks.
Store your contacts as google contacts not on the phone or on the sim and it should work