Reminders trigger at the time of the event and not before by default

[Pat McGowan]

Sync of google calendar. The Google calendar setting is set by default to notify 10 min prior to all meetings.

Is it possible to get this default notification time from google with the sync?
or can we add a setting for a default notification time in the calendar app?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

confirmed on rtm233

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

This looks like it might be two related but separate issues.

1. handling the notification time for events imported from google calendar

2. displaying triggers at the correct time, rather than at the time of the event. At first glance, this second one appears to be an indicator-datetime-service bug. I'll triage it further to confirm, and will file that under a new datetime ticket if I'm right.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Pat, I'm adding "canonical-devices-system-image" there, seems like an important issue and might be in the indicator which is on the image (even if the calendar is a store app, users are likely to install it and having event reminder working reliably is kind of important for those who use that features)

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

In fact we want to include calendar by default

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

assigning bill as I am not sure where the fix(es) resides

[Kunal Parmar (pkunal-parmar)]

"Is it possible to get this default notification time from google with the sync?"

I think this needs to be handled at EDS plugin end. When EDS syncs the events it needs to check google's notification setting and modify the event in local storage.

[Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho)]

I can confirm that the event reminders are included on calendar event, and they can be retrieved/updated by QtOrganizer API.

The information that we have is:

BEGIN:VALARM^M
TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION:-PT10M^M
ACTION:DISPLAY^M
DESCRIPTION:This is an event reminder^M
X-EVOLUTION-ALARM-UID:20150323T210628Z-2347-32011-1580-5@ubuntu-phablet^M
END:VALARM^M

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

indicator-datetime needs to be modified to read this information out of the event and display the notification at the appropriate time

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Adding ubuntu-calendar-app as also affected. Its "New Events" page for creating calendar events defaults to "On Event" rather than, say, 15 minutes before.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 13.10.0+15.04.20150406-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (13.10.0+15.04.20150406-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Charles Kerr ]
  * Improve valarm support to honor calendar events' valarm triggers.
    (LP: #1419001)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Apr 2015 23:35:46 +0000

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

@popey can you get this scheduled

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-calendar-app at revision 650, scheduled for release in ubuntu-calendar-app, milestone rtm14

[Matthias Huber (hm10439-deactivatedaccount)]

doesn't seem to work with google calendar.

[zulucloud (zulucloud)]

Hmmpf... doesn't seem to work on my bq.

Test 1:
Updated everything possible, including calendar app. No reboot, no restarting of any app. Created a new event (creation time appr. 15:55) to start at 16:10, set reminder to 5 minutes. Alarm went off at 16:10.

Test 2:
Switched off bq; switched on again. Created a new event to start at 16:35 (creation time appr. 16:15), leaving reminder at default / 15 minutes. Alarm went off at 16:35.

Let me know if i can help in any way..

[zulucloud (zulucloud)]

Hmmpf... doesn't seem to work on my bq.

Test 1:
Updated everything possible, including calendar app. No reboot, no
restarting of any app. Created a new event (creation time appr. 15:55)
to start at 16:10, set reminder to 5 minutes. Alarm went off at 16:10.

Test 2:
Switched off bq; switched on again. Created a new event to start at
16:35 (creation time appr. 16:15), leaving reminder at default / 15
minutes. Alarm went off at 16:35.

Let me know if i can help in any way..

Am 27.05.2015 um 13:52 schrieb Alan Pope :
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-calendar-app
> Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
>

[Matthias Huber (hm10439-deactivatedaccount)]

when inserting a new date into LOCAL calendar, having german timezone, entering no data, but saving this date, afterwards it is moved two hours before the entered time.