Feature Request: Choose whether to sync All-Day events

[phw198]

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aejaygoehring wrote at 2015-10-29 17:01:

I don't know how it is for everyone else, but at my place of work my calendar is pretty constantly inundated with All-Day requests from people saying they will be Work at Home or Out of Office. I try to keep my calendar trimmed of them, but it made me realize...

I really don't want any All-Day meeting synced to my Google Calendar. I've never had an All-Day item that was useful and needed to be referenced later in the other Calendar. I really just need the regular meeting during the day so I get reminders and can pull up the descriptions.

Does a setting for this exist already (I've looked around, but I could have missed it)? If not, could it be considered?

[euinor]

Hi, any news on this enhancement? It would be nice to not sync all day events.
Also, I would like to only sync accepted events - I have many events in my calendar set as 'tentative' so I am aware of them but are unlikely to attend. I don't need to sync these.

Edit: similar to #825 (as all day or tentative events are usually 'free').
Workaround: categorise all day/tentative events and exclude that category.
Edit2: workaround doesn't work 100% as you cannot categorise individual occurrences in a series, whereas you can be tentative on one occurrence in a series.

[phw198]

📦 This should now be available with hotfix v2.10.0.5.zip (see instructions for applying).

If you give it a go, please let me know how it goes!

[euinor]

Tested it (with exclude-all-day-items ticked and that-are-free unticked) and it works as expected. Thanks!

[euinor]

I did notice applying this hotfix turned off 'start on login'. I don't know if it was a coincidence. Is there a log I can send to you?

[phw198]

That's odd - do you still have the log file from the day when you applied the hotfix and first started OGCS?

What version of OGCS were you running beforehand?

[euinor]

I was running v2.9.7.0.
Links below are OGcalsync.log.2023-07-17, which is the last log with v2.9.7.0
and OGcalsync.log.2023-07-20, which is the next log recorded and is says version v2.10.0.5
(hopefully the links work...)
2023-07-17
2023-07-20

[phw198]

From your first log file, it looks like the setting was false even under 2.9.7, so I think you just noticed it when you patched to v2.10.0.5

StartOnStartup: False; AllUsers: False; DelayedStartup: 300

Hard to know if it was a bug if we don't really know when it happened...

[euinor]

From your first log file, it looks like the setting was false even under 2.9.7, so I think you just noticed it when you patched to v2.10.0.5

StartOnStartup: False; AllUsers: False; DelayedStartup: 300

Hard to know if it was a bug if we don't really know when it happened...

I hadn't changed the version in a while and it was running fine before. So if the flag was changed before I upgraded, then it must have been something I did. Chalk it up to user error for now - I'll make a ticket if it comes up again.