Thanks for the response, Byron. That makes some sense, but I have to say, I'm still a bit confused: Spanning Sync must have some mechanism for prioritizing sync information, right? In other words, are you suggesting that anytime an event is created in another application, it will acquire the notification characteristics of THAT application, rather than maintaining the original notifications? That doesn't seem to mesh with what actually happens. When I originally create an event in Google Calendar, and it syncs to iCal, it maintains the original notification scheme from Google—it doesn't *acquire* the notification scheme from iCal when it's "created" by Spanning Sync in iCal. And vice versa. Which is kind of my problem.
Because Google Calendar allows for a much more robust system of default notifications on a per-calendar basis, I can set default notification schemes for each calendar—so that, say, my "Birthdays" calendar notifies me (by default) 7 days in advance, so I can send a card, whereas my "Appointments" calendar notifies me one hour in advance so I can get on the road. What I would like ideally is to dictate which system's notification scheme is used when syncing, so that regardless of where the event was created (whether in iCal, Google Calendar), the event would use Google's default notification scheme for the particular calendar on which it is created. Does that make sense? If so, that *does* seem like it might be a Spanning Sync issue, and not an issue of how Google Calendar (or iCal) *originally creates* events. Of course, this all may be my misunderstanding of the way the syncing process works. If so, maybe you can explain? -Celeste On Friday, May 18, 2012 1:57:27 PM UTC-4, byron.shaheen wrote: > > Hi, > > If events that are sent to Google Calendar through Spanning Sync are > not getting a default Google Calendar alarm set, there is something > wrong with Google, not Spanning Sync. It's Google Calendar that > should be setting the default alarm to any new events, so I'm not sure > what's causing that problem. You might try checking the Google > Calendar Discussion groups to see if anyone else is experiencing the > same behavior. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you. > > -Byron > > --- > Byron Shaheen > [email protected] > http://spanningsync.com > > > > > On May 15, 5:53 pm, chgboyd <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use Spanning Sync to sync my iCal and Google Calendar accounts, and > > the Google Sync to sync my Google Calendar with my iPhone. > > > > All seemed to be going well, except that while Spanning Sync says that > > it will sync alarms, I haven't been able to get it to successfully do > > so. > > > > Since iCal doesn't allow for calendar-specific alarm schemes, and I > > have MANY different Google Calendars with very different (and > > specific) alarm schemes, I'd really like to use THOSE schemes, as > > opposed to relying on iCal's limited alarm ability (i.e., only one > > "default" alarm allowed, and it applies to all calendars). > > > > The problem is that when an event is created on my Google Calendar via > > the Spanning Sync syncing process, the event doesn't automatically > > adopt the notification settings of the specific Google Calendar in > > which it's created. In fact, it has no notifications whatsoever. > > > > I thought this was working fine before, but all of a sudden I realized > > that I was missing a lot of alarms on my iPhone, and figured out that > > the alarm schemes weren't getting applied when the event was created > > via Spanning Sync. > > > > Is there something I'm missing in terms of settings? Or is this just a > > design limitation of Spanning Sync?? Please tell me it's the former! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/spanningsync/-/_t82f-WBECgJ. 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/spanningsync?hl=en.
