I have also worked around this issue by rounding, but this definitly throws up some UI issues with Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning. Currently the fields to pick the alarm offset have an arbitrary number of (minutes| hours|days) before and after the event. Users might type in a nice value and wonder why they are not getting notified correctly. We already have enough bugs with "alarms fire too early".
Philipp On May 2, 6:39 pm, "OggSync Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OggSync handles this by rounding up imported events to the next Google > supported increment with the thought that it's better to be reminded sooner > than expected rather than later than expected. Also you should keep in mind > that Google doesn't actually alert you except for the "primary" calendar. > > I would +1 the alerts on non-primary calendars (make it a setting on each of > those calendars). > > On 5/2/07, Mark Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Philipp Kewisch wrote: > > > Thats a pretty harsh limitation. That makes interaction with > > > calendering applications very hard unless you are on the developer > > > team and can find some way to make such discrete values appear > > > correctly in the calendaring app. > > > > I urge you to back this change out and fix it where it actually > > > exists: in the Google UI. > > > +1 > > This limitation guarantees data loss when synchronizing with any other > > existing calendaring application or device that supports alarms with > > durations not on your list. Hint: think millions of people affected. > > > Cheers. > > > -- > >http://www.ScheduleWorld.com/ > > Free Google Calendar synchronization with Outlook, Evolution, > > cell phones, BlackBerry, PalmOS, Exchange, Mozilla, Thunderbird, > > Pocket PC/Windows Mobile. Also sync tasks, notes and contacts! > > WebDAV, vfreebusy, RSS, LDAP, iCalendar, iTIP, iMIP support. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
