Hi Matt,

Thanks for the encouragement.  While these changes have been rolled
back, we'll have the new functionality available again as soon as
possible.

I've addressed your original concerns about reminders inline below...


On May 3, 3:43 am, "Matt (GooSync)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The new change to Google Calendar that allows reminders to be set for
> shared calendars is good to see. However this has introduced a new bug
> setting reminders via the C# API. using the API to add or modify a
> event reminder doesn't work.
>
> For the default calendar passing a reminder will half work, i.e. the
> reminder will be stored on the event in Google but it won't display in
> the GUI, you just get a little alarm clock and a blank reminder.
> However getting the event back using the API the reminder is still
> set.

Ryan and I tested this against the new release and didn't see the
problems you're reporting.  The reminders were successbully created in
the Google data feed as well as being available in the UI.  I've seen
this behavior (alarm clock but no reminder) in the past when trying to
use an unsupported period for the reminder time.  The value used for
reminder time must be one of the values in the drop down box on the
UI.  Maybe your issue is related, but you should receive an "Illegal
gd:reminder value specified" 400 error if you use an unsupported
value.

>
> For shared events the reminder can't be set through the API. So when
> we add or update an event even if we set a reminder it will always be
> blank in Google, when doing a replace this wipes out any existing
> alarm.

One of the new features of reminders is the addition of a "method"
attribute that can be set to values such as email, sms, alert, etc.
If a reminder is created with a time period specified, but no
assiciated method, then the calendar's default reminder methods will
be used with the time specified in the <gd:remider> tag.  Unless
you've updated the calendar-scoped reminder settings, there won't be
any reminder methods to default to, resulting in no reminders being
set on the event.

Wow, that was complicated!  Rest assured there will be new
documentation to cover this in the Google data "Kinds" documentation.

Cheers,
Lane


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