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Birthday / Anniversary to Appointments

Heres a little program I made which allows you to automatically create / update / delete appointments based on your anniversaries and birthdays set on your contacts, it uses its own group for the appointments "From Contact" so that it wont interfere with any other appointments you have, also the latest version has a function to view all your birthdays / anniversaries on one screen and sort by various things, you can get it here:
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/bdaytocalendar.phtml
Download link at bottom of page
The main reason I made it is because I didnt want to have to sync with Exchange and back again every time i add / change a birthdate / anniversary
NOTE: This program required the Microsoft .NET CF 3.5 to be installed on your device, so if you dont already have it you will need it, there is a link on the page to download it.
Let me know what you think, its my first attempt at a Windows Mobile device application, i have been using this app on my own HTC Touch HD for some time and it works really well.

Anyone find it useful, bugs? Requested Features?

TheToid said:
Anyone find it useful, bugs? Requested Features?
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first thank you for this program, now for me everyting is working just fine, the only thing i can think off is if you can make it where we can change the status to free because everything right now is set to busy.

Definitely, I didnt even think of that when I coded it, I will endeavour to get an update done today to fix this issue. Thanks for the input!

great program! was looking for something like this!
works good, no problems for me.
thank you!

Thanks aerodynamic.
And to maniatico:
A new version is up : Version 1.8
* Appointments are now created with a Free status instead of busy
* There was a problem before where editing the appointments manually would cause an error (end date must be after start date) this has been fixed, but may required you to Remove and then Update the appointments through the program rather than just updating.
Download from same location:
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/bdaytocalendar.phtml

Another new version is up, sorry for the successive updates but I wanted to fix and update a few things:
Version 1.9 - 16/09/2009
* Multi column sorting now supported in view (sorting by another column will not interfere with current sort order of items which are equal for that column)
* Option added to select status for birthdays and appointments
* Sometimes appointments would update when there was no need for them to be updated - fixed
* Bug where appointments could not be edited is now fixed for sure (please remove and update if you have this issue)
* Progress bar now shown when loading contacts for viewing of birthdays / anniversaries
Version history is now on website:
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/bdaytocalendar.phtml

Any other feature requests / bug reports?

History & Info
There is a whirlpool thread dedicated to this program here.
1.9 - 16/09/2009
And :
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You can download the latest version of the Birthday to Calendar here
Download Link:
Filename: BirthdayToCalendarInstall.CAB
Size: 68.5 KB
Uploaded: September 15, 2009
Where is the link for the 1.9 ?

The download link shows as blue text between the text "Download Link:" and "Filename: BirthdayToCalendarInstall.CAB". It shows up for me, and quite a few other people?? Dosnt it show for you?
If it dosnt, i would be interested to find out what browser you are using, i have tested my website on Chrome, Firefox, IE6 and IE7, havnt tested it much on IE8 though.
Download Link:
####DOWNLOAD LINK HERE>>#### Birthday to Calendar
Filename: BirthdayToCalendarInstall.CAB
Size: 68.5 KB
Uploaded: September 15, 2009
This file has been downloaded 95 (95) times
It was last downloaded on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:53:10 +1000

I have noticed there seems to be a bug in the HTC Touch HD (or possibly in WM6) where sounds, and vibrations wont work for reminders on appointments that are set to All Day events, for this reason sounds and vibrations dont work for appointments created by my program on this phone with WM6
Other people have confirmed this problem here:
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsmobile/thread/4dbfcc1f-bfc2-4b01-9551-5496fa05be40
I am planning on putting an extra option under a new tab into the program which is called "Appointment Method", basically it will have two options, "All Day" and "Start of Day", all day will result in all day appointments (for those where the bug above dosnt affect them) and "Start of Day" will create the appointments at midnight and end at midnight on the same day (this way they show up at the start of the day only) which should allow the sounds and vibrations to work.
Actually I might add this option for both appointments without reminders and appointments with reminders.

New version is up, you can now control your birthdates and anniversary dates from within the program using the view function, also a few other features including one to get around the problem where all day appointments wont play a sound or vibrate (see previous post):
1.9.1 - 17/09/2009
* You can now view / edit contacts by clicking a selected item in the view birthdays / anniversaries
* Extra setting added for making appointments at start of day instead of all day for reminded / non reminded apointments
* Extra setting added "Show All Contacts in View" will show contacts without birthdays or anniversaries allowing to set them if needed (they always sort to the end except when sorting by name)
* Dirty checking is now performed on the settings so you only get asked to update contacts if you make a change to relevant settings
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgshere/bdaytocalendar.phtml#Download

Hi,
Thanks a lot for this app. Very nice program, very useful and welldone.
I have two suggestions:
- Multi-language translation ( I can do the french one )
- Possibility to add birthday in your app. (I have full of contacts with one person birthdate, but I must remember wife, children,...), it would be a nice option.
I hope it"s not to diffucult.....

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- Multi-language translation ( I can do the french one )
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This can definitely be done, will have to localise all the strings, but there arent that many in it! I will look into it
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- Possibility to add birthday in your app. (I have full of contacts with one person birthdate, but I must remember wife, children,...), it would be a nice option.
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Do you mean, the ability to add extra dates, then one birthday and one anniversary per contact? The way I normally handle this is to just create a contact with only a name and a birthdate.
However im not discounting this feature entirely, but this one is a pretty big one to implement, although definitely possible, its a little outside the scope of the applications functionality.
Maybe when I have all the other stuff done and added, like the multi language, i will look into this feature a little more.
Thankyou very much for your feedback

where should i add an anniversary reminder? 'cause i can figure out how can i use this app. when i press update, nothing happends. i have in contacts all reminders.

TheToid said:
.........Do you mean, the ability to add extra dates, then one birthday and one anniversary per contact? The way I normally handle this is to just create a contact with only a name and a birthdate....
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Yes, it's about that. I keep my contact database with persons who have a phone number. For the other ones, I don't create them in my contacts.
I would like to add them in your app, instead of creating a recurring appointement for each birthday or anniversary.

ady_uaic said:
where should i add an anniversary reminder? 'cause i can figure out how can i use this app. when i press update, nothing happends. i have in contacts all reminders.
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Im not sure what your saying here ady_uaic, but for the program to work you MUST have one or more contacts with their Birth dates / Anniversaries set, you must also check the settings of my application, and ensure that "Process Birthdays" and "Process Anniversaries" is checked, otherwise they wont be processed and therefor wont create any appointments.
Apart from that, thats all you need to know?

woaloo said:
Yes, it's about that. I keep my contact database with persons who have a phone number. For the other ones, I don't create them in my contacts.
I would like to add them in your app, instead of creating a recurring appointement for each birthday or anniversary.
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Ok, well this is something I will add later on, basically I will implement my own database, this is a large undertaking for a project that was meant to be small and simple, but im sure once I get these other things done i will be looking for more to implement.

Ok, new version is up:
1.9.5 - 18/09/2009
* Now support multi languages files with icons, read below
* Other minor enhacements
Basically, you need to put at least one file with the extension of .lang in the same folder as the executable on the device, you can also, optionally put another file with the same name but with an extension of .png which should be a 64 x 64 PNG image to be used as the languages icon
Download this file to see a demo of the .lang and .png file for French (NOTE: Not all the french words have been converted and I only used google so its probably not that accurate, words which have not been converted have an X in front of them).
Every 2 lines in the .lang file is a conversion, the first is the english version .. DO NOT CHANGE THIS, change the second line of each one ONLY, you can edit the .lang file in Notepad, just be sure to save it as a UTF-8 format NOT ANSI.
Download the demo french language files here:
http://home.exetel.com.au/amurgsher...&filename=FrenchLanguageForBDayToCalendar.zip
Heres how selection works, if you havnt set a language yet and more than 1 language is available (NOTE: English is always available, as it is built in) then when you load the program it will ask you for the language.
Once it asks you once it will never ask again, unless you click the LANG link in the top right corner of the main form, this will close the app and make it so that next time you launch the app you will be asked for language, but AGAIN this will only occur if you have more than 1 language option available (ie have at least 1 .lang file in the executable dir)
If you create any .lang and .png files, please kindly ZIP them up and email them to [email protected], I will them include them in the distribution CAB so that everyone has access to them.
The next thing to do is custom Birthdays / Anniversaries...
Cheers!

hey, one small problem for me:
program works fine, creates contacts. but in touchflo calender tab, i cant see these greyed out corners for days with a birthday.
tried to save the bithday appointments as all day as well as start from beginning of day.
when clicking on the date, i see the appointment in tf3d.
thanks in advance!

Any way to link Facebook contacts to phone?

My friends blackberry is able to pull all his contacts pictures on his phone from updated facebook pics.
It's a really nice feature, anyhting out there like that for WinMo users

D2/TP2 already support this

Umm, yes, it's built into your phone...
Also, you can do this if you have Outlook on any other phone using an app for your computer called Fonebook.

It's built into the stock AT&T ROM, but appears to be missing from some cooked ROMs. (The integration definately does not seem to be there with EnergyROM as of the Oct 11 build.)

It's a little labor but all you need to do is first make sure you have the facebook app installed from either microsoft direct or from the windows marketplace.
Once you have that, you'll need to edit each of your contacts and if you scroll to the bottom of each contact in teh edit view, you'll see that there's a link for connecting to the facebook profile.
Clicking that link will launch the facebook application and then allow you to select the appropriate facebook profile to link to.
That's it.

Facebook Integration Question

Firstly i'm new to these forums and the exciting concept of flashing ROMs, so hello! I feel like a giddy child.
I've noticed that WinMo 6.5 (and Android) give you the option to link your contacts to Facebook accounts, unfortunately i discovered that for alot of people i know, when associating Facebook accounts through your address book, profile pictures don't all load up in the look-up. This means they can't always be used as Caller images for your contacts.
Currently i'm accessing this featuring by going into edit contact details and clicking the 'Link, Associate with Facebook account' button at the bottom.
Anybody had the same problem or have a work around? Its a very useful feature and something which i was looking forward to using. Maybe there's a method to link facebook accounts en masse?

stationunderground said:
Firstly i'm new to these forums and the exciting concept of flashing ROMs, so hello! I feel like a giddy child.
I've noticed that WinMo 6.5 (and Android) give you the option to link your contacts to Facebook accounts, unfortunately i discovered that for alot of people i know, when associating Facebook accounts through your address book, profile pictures don't all load up in the look-up. This means they can't always be used as Caller images for your contacts.
Currently i'm accessing this featuring by going into edit contact details and clicking the 'Link, Associate with Facebook account' button at the bottom.
Anybody had the same problem or have a work around? Its a very useful feature and something which i was looking forward to using. Maybe there's a method to link facebook accounts en masse?
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Facebook integration depends on which manila you're using. 2.5 vs 2.1 act differently when it comes to facebook. 2.5 lets you sync all the contacts at once but doesn't set the picture as the default profile pic so you have to go back and set it (also, it only sets it in manila not wm). 2.1 doesn't have mass sync but automatically sets the picture as your default profile pic.

[REQ] Importing more information from facebook

Hi guys,
i am looking for an enhancement of the possibility of HTC's Contacts to import more information from facebook than only profile-picture, blog and birthday.
For example: phone numbers, mail-adresses, address, etc.
This would be a great enhancement to the existing function which is nice, but... to be true ... not much more than something to play around with.
Thanks for ur help.
Regards
Bjoern

I don't think is gonna possible
I don't think it is possible due to privacy constrain... Facebook does not allowed to access these kind of data

look up something called 'fonebook', it lets you import a lot of stuff to outlook (picture, website, address) but you can't get cell numbers and such since its against like fb policy or something.
google fonebook or look it up on facebook. i use it and its pretty good.

sayazs said:
look up something called 'fonebook', it lets you import a lot of stuff to outlook (picture, website, address) but you can't get cell numbers and such since its against like fb policy or something.
google fonebook or look it up on facebook. i use it and its pretty good.
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I'm the developer of Fonebook.
If you are a pro user PM me for more info about the import number feature
Thanks
Ross

Also, maybe add the feature that when you import a FB pic, it also updates the Outlook pic automatically.

Exchange Email Client

Thinking about getting the phone - but just have one question as this has been holding me back for a while now from getting an Android phone.
Could anyone confirm if folders and sub folders for TouchWiz email Exchange client are all on one level or have a tiered structure as per Outlook ie:
Folder 1
¦
------ Sub Folder 1
Thanks.

That woul be a very important information for me too!
Looking forward to detailed answers!
TIA

+1
Thanks!

I can't confirm the folder structure but can confirm that Activesync works.

Thanks!
Could you confirm some other things, too?
- bi-directional contacts sync
- bi-directional calendar sync
- bi-directional sync of recurring appointments
- html mails
- confirming appointments

Hmmm. Folder structure depends on the view you look at it in. It shows all my Exchange folders in a list in the main view (there's a quick dropdown to change folder) but in folder view, it shows in hierarchy.
Bi-directional contacts and calendar have been working since the original SGS and all synced to my phone fine. Not sure about recurring appointments but it syncs all of mine from Exchange to the phone fine. HTML mail works fine too (would be a bit ****ed up if it didn't!). Never tried confirming appointments so I can't say anything about that.

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Hmmm. Folder structure depends on the view you look at it in. It shows all my Exchange folders in a list in the main view (there's a quick dropdown to change folder) but in folder view, it shows in hierarchy.
Bi-directional contacts and calendar have been working since the original SGS and all synced to my phone fine. Not sure about recurring appointments but it syncs all of mine from Exchange to the phone fine. HTML mail works fine too (would be a bit ****ed up if it didn't!). Never tried confirming appointments so I can't say anything about that.
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Thanks for the information. That's interesting because the default Android email client on 2.3.3 does not seem to include an option for folder viewing hierarchical folders...

I'm on my first full day so can report on this a bit now.
I'm trying out the stock client with an ES 2010 server. Some nice surprises:
- Full folder structure accessible
- Server search
- Task sync (!)
- Decent interface (don't love the dark background for the email list...)
- Syncs faster than my Atrix running Froyo
- Nice little widget icon showing unread emails
- it's got a crazy 2-pane inbox view w/preview when in landscape mode (think tablet view or desktop Outlook) - this is really cool!
- Out of office setting
On the downside, the email list widget sucks - it doesn't scroll and only shows 3 most recent (not even unread) emails so that's a bit of a disappointment. Also the calendar widgets are nice but they're too large and not resizable. Thankfully Calwidget works fine.
I'm going to try to live with it. I have a paid TD license and I had gotten used to their widgets on my Atrix, but I suspect stock is more battery friendly.

Thanks for the info. Would you mind posting some screenshots of the email client. I used Froyo, and I can't even do a search on my emails. I ended up using TD as well. Do we have search now? Is there pinch to zoom on emails? If not, can we resize font size? and How? sorry too many questions.
Thanks in advance.

I use sgs2 as my primary business phone., exchange 2010 support is the best ever, on windows mobile or android.
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yatbond said:
Thanks for the info. Would you mind posting some screenshots of the email client. I used Froyo, and I can't even do a search on my emails. I ended up using TD as well. Do we have search now? Is there pinch to zoom on emails? If not, can we resize font size? and How? sorry too many questions.
Thanks in advance.
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Here you go...I've been using it for a few days now and NO need to employ TD which is saying a lot for a native Exchange client! The only thing missing is Notes sync which I can live without (don't change notes that often and can just drag them into Evernote).
The client actually blows me away...to answer your question, we have search as you'll see in the screenshots, as well as pinch to zoom, font resizing in both the Inbox view as well as the message body. Let me know if you have any other q's.
https://picasaweb.google.com/mickliq/SGSIIExchangeClient#5604039643374091746

Is it possible to sync multiple exchange-calendars?

bill340 said:
Is it possible to sync multiple exchange-calendars?
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Yes, the option to add another account is still there after one is already present

mickliq said:
Yes, the option to add another account is still there after one is already present
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I don't need to sync multiple exchange-accounts, but I have several calendars in one single exchange-account.
Is it possible to sync all calendars, that are present in my exchange-account, or can I only sync one?

bill340 said:
I don't need to sync multiple exchange-accounts, but I have several calendars in one single exchange-account.
Is it possible to sync all calendars, that are present in my exchange-account, or can I only sync one?
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No options there for the "calendar folders" so I don't think so. Then again, I don't have any sub-folders so I can't be 100% sure.

rdy2go said:
I use sgs2 as my primary business phone., exchange 2010 support is the best ever, on windows mobile or android.
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Could you explain it a bit more and are you still missing something?
Thanks in advance!

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No options there for the "calendar folders" so I don't think so. Then again, I don't have any sub-folders so I can't be 100% sure.
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Actually I do not work with sub-folders in calendars, but I have several calendars in Outlook under the main-folder, that are synced to exchange.
Can you try to add a new calendar in outlook and see if you can sync that second calendar to the phone via exchange?

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Here you go...I've been using it for a few days now and NO need to employ TD which is saying a lot for a native Exchange client! The only thing missing is Notes sync which I can live without (don't change notes that often and can just drag them into Evernote).
The client actually blows me away...to answer your question, we have search as you'll see in the screenshots, as well as pinch to zoom, font resizing in both the Inbox view as well as the message body. Let me know if you have any other q's.
https://picasaweb.google.com/mickliq/SGSIIExchangeClient#5604039643374091746
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Thanks!
Sounds and looks fantastic!

Hey Thanks a lot....
One more question. From the screenshot, I can see the search is "search server" and not local search.. is that true, because if so, then I need internet service to search and also it would be slower.
Thanks again

Hi can anyone check if attachments can be opened if they are received as part of a calendar invite? Say a pptx or something similar...
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