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Option to have a reminder on the day of an all-day event #48

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danvratil opened this issue Oct 1, 2018 · 3 comments
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Option to have a reminder on the day of an all-day event #48

danvratil opened this issue Oct 1, 2018 · 3 comments
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Say, setting a reminder for 9 AM on the day of the event.

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Phidica commented Oct 1, 2018

+1 for this, I literally was just trying to do it in the app and it didn't work, so I came here to file a feature request

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Brief investigation shows that this may not be as simple as I thought. Due to Android limitations we can only specify how many minutes before the event the reminder should occur.

Options:

  • try to pass a negative number of minutes (the docs say "-1" means default reminder, so I'm skeptical about this)
  • only set "default" reminder for all-day events and leave it up to the user to configure it in their calendaring apps (very non-intuitive, depends if the app supports it)
  • implement a custom reminder system for this case - I'm rather reluctant to do that as it would be a nontrivial amount of work and the reminders would be inconsistent with reminders from whatever calendaring app the user has - however it appears to be the only workable solution at this point (but probably pushes this to 1.1)

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36761408
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/tPeNA-NEqPI

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Phidica commented Oct 2, 2018

Is there any chance it could be faked? Say, by somehow setting the start time of the all-day event to later in the day so the notification can happen later but still "before" it? Or at worst, just converting it into a non-all-day event entirely? I'm not sure if these are truly great solutions but perhaps they could be workarounds in the meantime?

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