Hi Mark, We can't have anyone forgetting birthdays, and Mother's day is right around the corner! This looks like a bug to me and I'm working with the rest of the Calendar team to get to the bottom of it.
I'll keep you posted, Lane On May 2, 9:51 am, Mark Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > In October of 2006 I logged a bug about recurring events, and made > multiple postings to this group about it. > > http://code.google.com/p/google-gdata/issues/detail?id=25&can=2&q= > > I stopped posting examples of RRULEs that Google fails to parse in > Decembre 2006. I was under the assumption that these would be addressed > shortly. It seems I was wrong. > > There are several classes of recurring events that are very common. > Here's an example: > > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=5;BYMONTHDAY=3 > > Google can not parse this. So Google can not support birthdays in this > format. > > Is the recommended best practice to methodically reverse engineer the > limitations of Google's RRULE handling and then create complicated RRULE > mappings to and from Google? I'd really like to know. > > Please understand, I'm not trying to be rude or offend anyone at Google. > A bug's a bug and all software has bugs. I'm just humbly curious why > something so important like abirthday(lots of other use cases) is not > supported - and after being raised as an issue 6 months ago no one has > considered it a priority to fix. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
