Calendar: whole-day event support [released]

answered 2014-02-11 10:20:53 +0300

veskuh
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updated 2014-02-11 10:21:10 +0300

Yes, this is a useful feature and supported by majority of calendar apps. The feature is in our roadmap and will come in an upcoming update.

answered 2014-01-20 11:31:31 +0300

Kari
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For the Birthdays related to the person, the Jolla way is to do it via the contacts.

If you open the contact in the person app and activate the modification of the contact details (via pulley menu), it allows entering of special dates (currently two dates), which will create the whole day events in Jolla calendar.

When you do this first time these entries will create dedicated calendar, which you need to activate on Calendar app. via pulley menu => Manage calendars => Activate the one for birthdays, which is currently the only one working option. Unfortunately I haven't found the way to set dedicated alarm for the person driven birthday entry???

Naturally you can do normal event with time from 0.00 to 0.00, which creates whole day event. With this approach the event is not connected to any person and you may also give alarm time for created event. The new event is created to the default calendar of the Jolla phone.

The problem is that default calendar can't be selected nor you can't select any other calendar, if you have various accounts with calendar in your Jolla phone.

Having the special dates stored in various calendars and in Jolla phone will create situation where multiple events for the same reason will be shown in calendar. It might be wise to think in which calendar is used to drive special dates to avoid dublicate events and alarms.