Bug 517660 – Events stored in Google Calendar don't set an alarm for the remote calendar

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Bug 517660 - Events stored in Google Calendar don't set an alarm for the remote calendar


Summary:	Events stored in Google Calendar don't set an alarm for the remote calendar


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 588857

Product:	evolution
Classification:	Applications
Component:	Calendar
Version:	2.22.x (obsolete)
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	evolution-calendar-maintainers
QA Contact:	Evolution QA team

URL:
Whiteboard:	evolution[google]

Depends on:	588857
Blocks:

Reported:	2008-02-20 13:26 UTC by Tobias Wolf
Modified:	2009-07-28 09:14 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.21/2.22

Description Tobias Wolf 2008-02-20 13:26:12 UTC

Please describe the problem:
I have a default SMS alarm set inside calendar.google.com. Every event I set in the in the web-interface is created with this default.

When I create an event through Evolutions plugin, this does not happen, but it should.
Is it possible to manipulate the reminders of Google calendar?

Steps to reproduce:
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Does this happen every time?


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Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:36:19 UTC

Bumping version to a stable release.

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2009-07-17 11:52:13 UTC

Thanks for the pointer on this in bug #588857, let's have this for SMS notifications only. It would be great to have this tested on the 2.27.5+, as I think the alarm will not be striped, but only will not by shown in evo UI probably.

Comment 3 Tobias Wolf 2009-07-27 22:01:54 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
>  It would be great to have this tested on the 2.27.5+, as I
> think the alarm will not be striped, but only will not by shown in evo UI
> probably.

I spent quite some time testing this and it was confusing as hell.

First, the gcal alert defaults were kept for subcalendars. If I made a new event in evo undera subcalendar it didn’t overwrite the defaults. But for the main calendar it always reverted to pop-up 20 minutes.

In the end I figured out that I have to disable the default 20 min alert in evo and set it to ‹none›. Only then were the gcal defaults preserved.

So, it seems to work as advertised. But the UI for subscribing to gcal calendars could be improved. It’s very time consuming to subscribe to a dozen calendars. A list with tickboxes would be nice ...

Comment 4 Milan Crha 2009-07-28 08:19:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> In the end I figured out that I have to disable the default 20 min alert in evo
> and set it to ‹none›. Only then were the gcal defaults preserved.

Thanks for testing this. I guess the google calendar adds there its defaults only when there is no alarm set in the event, but it's just a guess.

> So, it seems to work as advertised. But the UI for subscribing to gcal
> calendars could be improved. It’s very time consuming to subscribe to a dozen
> calendars. A list with tickboxes would be nice ...

Good idea, though not possible at the moment, as you can add exactly one calendar in the "New Calendar" dialog.

Can this be closed now?

Comment 5 Tobias Wolf 2009-07-28 08:35:46 UTC

 
> Can this be closed now?
 
Yes, please close. Thanks.

Comment 6 Milan Crha 2009-07-28 09:14:54 UTC

Thanks, I'm closing this as a duplicate of bug #588857, as I do not have any better resolution.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 588857 ***