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Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

A fixed build is in extras-devel now at version 0.0.10.

An old, broken .pro file got into the mix from a previous build. :(

I'll promote to testing again when it becomes available to do so.

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

It's very promising. I just tried to update my past-due tasks to the current date. It pulled most, but not all of my tasks. The only thing that I can think of that might be different about those tasks that weren't pulled could be that those tasks were ones where I have changed the status (pending to complete back to pending) several times.

Once I combine this with an alarmed command to run this automatically, this should improve the usefulness of the task list considerably for me.

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

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Originally Posted by jackburton (Post 1087871)

This is a simple wrapper around the calendar-backend API that allows for:

import ics files
export ics files
deleting completed tasks (batch)
moving late tasks to today (batch)

It's been in extras-devel for awhile now, but finally added the bug tracker and promoted to testing.

I am using it to script import and export operations from the Maemo calendar since I do not connect my phone to my company's Exchange server. I think I have finer control this way.

Hope it's useful and will see more use in extras-testing.

Is your tool capable of importing the diverse repeating events like pointed out in this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36161 ?

Thanks in advance.

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

Quote:

Originally Posted by klinglerware (Post 1088986)

If you can recreate the conditions, feel free to file a bug and I'll take a look.

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

Quote:

Originally Posted by PMaff (Post 1089018)

Is your tool capable of importing the diverse repeating events like pointed out in this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36161 ?

Thanks in advance.

All my tool does is call the calendar-backend api to import and export calendars.

I went ahead and created a test calendar with a repeating event that cannot be created via the calendar GUI. I then used my tool to import the calendar and it shows correctly.

This entry repeats every 10 days for 5 occurrences:

Code:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

VERSION:1.0

PRODID://Nokia Corporation//Maemo5 Calendar PR1.2//EN

BEGIN:VEVENT

CREATED:20110217T023020Z

SUMMARY:Trash Day

DESCRIPTION:Take the damn trash out

UID:3

DTSTART:20110216T200000Z

DTEND:20110216T201500Z

ATTACH:

SEQUENCE:0

LAST-MODIFIED:20110217T023020Z

RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=10;COUNT=5

BEGIN:VALARM

TRIGGER;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110921T200000Z

DURATION:PT1M

REPEAT:1

ACTION:AUDIO

END:VALARM

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

I suggest creating some valid .ics file in a tool of your choice and try to import it and see if it shows up right.

BTW. The details screen of the calendar just shows that it repeats every day (the FREQ= value). There may be frequncies that the calendar-gui make choke on. I don't know. Something to try out on your own.

Also, don't edit the event from the GUI or it will revert to repeating every day. The interval will get wiped out. It looks like we'd need a different program to make detailed edits outside of the default calendar GUI.

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

I've found the same to be true when syncing with Nokia PC Suite. You can set more complex alarm times, patterns, exceptions, etc. It syncs correctly, but editing it on the device makes it go wonky. Sucks that they implemented a great system under the hood and the crippled it with a half-*** GUI. I'd have much preferred text fields to a listbox...

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

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Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 1089279)

Yeah. There's a lot of stuff under the hood that works really well. For example the calendar and tasks support categories, but that is not exposed in the UI.

I had started work on a new GUI to manage the built-in tasks that exposes these things, but I have gotten delayed. I hope to resume soon and maybe get *something* out to extras-devel.

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackburton (Post 1089058)

If you can recreate the conditions, feel free to file a bug and I'll take a look.

Thanks. I was able to recreate it via some "test" entries and will file a bug shortly...

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

Quote:

Originally Posted by klinglerware (Post 1089605)

Thanks. I was able to recreate it via some "test" entries and will file a bug shortly...

Thanks. I think I found the issue. I updated the bug tracker and pushed a new package to extras-devel. It should show up in extras-testing at some point as well.

Re: [Announce] Calendar Command Line Tool

Thanks, it's working for me now.