Feature: Support for multiple local calendars

asked 2014-03-16 18:06:30 +0300

schmittlauch
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updated 2015-09-11 19:47:15 +0300

Yo
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Currently the Jolla Calendar app supports exactly two calendars: The one where you put your events/appointments and then one autogenerated birthday calendar. It's not possible yet to create new calendars. I need to organize my appointments in multiple calendars with different colors so I may only view business appointments and can hide the private and family related.

Does the calendar backend already support multiple calendars? Maybe then there is a command-line option to create additional calendars.
Currently I also need multiple calendars for syncing appointments via CalDAV with SyncEvolution as I have multiple calendars at server side and need one local calendar for each serverside calendar. But as Syncevolution is not officially supported, I can't count on Jolla to fix this.

Update: Apparently multiple calendars are technically possible already, as they're automatically created when using Exchange Sync. So we just need the missing pulley-menu entry for creating new calendars ourselves

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I suggest updating this request with a more explicit "multiple local calendar" term. In fact Jolla Calendar already supports multiple calendars, but only one local calendar ("Private"), and the special birthday calendar.

Eric C ( 2014-12-06 15:09:23 +0300 )

I'm not yet an user (waiting for the tablet), but if one can sync external calendars, like .ics standard files from servers, isn't it possible to just ask syncing with a server that, instead of you:yourpassword@yourserver/yourcalendarfile.ics would just be (local on the phone) yourdirectorypath/yourcalendarfile.ics

Herve5 ( 2015-09-11 20:03:34 +0300 )

Is there any update on this issue? It seems we can still have a single local calendar, and it is not backed up!

AnonUser4803 ( 2016-11-03 17:10:58 +0300 )

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answered 2014-03-16 19:12:58 +0300

ovekaaven

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updated 2014-03-16 19:26:04 +0300

Since you're using SyncEvolution anyway, you can actually use it to create calendars. Its calendar-creation code is normally disabled, as it's only really meant for unit testing, but there's a "secret" way to enable it.

In the configuration of your local sources, where you would say "database=WorkCalendar" or something, say "database=SyncEvolution_Test_WorkCalendar" instead. This will tell SyncEvolution that if "SyncEvolution_Test_WorkCalendar" doesn't already exist, it should create it. (Maybe it can be renamed later...)

Yeah, perhaps a bad idea, but it's possible. I can look into improving SyncEvolution's support for this kind of thing.

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answered 2014-03-16 19:11:44 +0300