Calendar Sync Question

volsmcfalls · #1 (**permalink**) 02-06-2009, 03:21 PM

Ok, so I synced my calendar on my Omnia with Outlook on my computer. But now, for some reason, all of the all-day events I have show a number beside them and I can't figure out why. It only affects the all-day events though.

For example, I have all of my family members' birthdays on my calendar so I won't forget them (complete with reminders). Now, my Mom's birthday (which is coming up soon) shows as "Mom's Birthday (3)" The numbers seem rather random...my wife's has (4), my sister's has (2).

Any thoughts on why it's doing this? When I go in to the actual appointment, the numbers are not there. Even if I retype them they still show up. I thought it might correspond to the number of days I have the reminder set for, but that's not it either.

Is this a sync issue? What's going

**weedahoe** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009, 08:23 AM

Is this in your calender on the Omnia or on the PC? Also, why not post thid in the Omnia forums to hopefully get more help on it?

**nuguy** · #3 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009, 11:00 AM

I'm guessing you are getting there age at there birthday, not relly of course, do you have the year of their birth in the birthday field for their contact info?

Open contacts

open one of the contacts in question I.e. mom

scroll down to the birthday field and verify the accuracy especially the year.

Assuming I am right, and you had to make a correction, now you will need to synch up again. and it may take a few minutes for the change to show up on the today screen.

**CozBoogie** · #4 (**permalink**) 02-09-2009, 03:43 PM

Moved to Omnia Fourm.

late,
Coz

volsmcfalls · #5 (**permalink**) 02-10-2009, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cozboogie

Moved to Omnia Fourm.

late,
Coz

I don't think this is an Omnia specific problem, since all Windows Mobile devices run the same calendar software...

volsmcfalls · #6 (**permalink**) 02-13-2009, 12:45 PM

I'm shamelessly bumping this because it's annoying the heck out of me.

I disagree that this is an Omnia-only problem, since I thought all windows mobile devices rand the same, but I digress...

I found out that the numbers are the ages. Well, more specifically, they are the number of the occurrence of the event. For example, if I put the birthday into Outlook in 2006, it is showing the 2009 occurrence as (3). But, this applies to ALL recurring all-day events, not just birthdays.

I have hundreds of birthdays in my calendar; most are clients'. I do not want to have to manually change the begin date of all of them just to get this fixed. Also, there is no way I am going to my clients to ask them the YEAR of their birth. That's a good way to lose accounts.

Also, I will point out that in adding the birthyear to the appointments causes the calendar to create all the appointments in the past as well. Meaning that the memory usage would go up tremendously (because of the numbers of birthdays I have in here) just to fix an annoyance.

Is there a fix for this out there? I can't imagine this is the first anyone has heard of this being a problem.

It would be better if the date in the appointment screen didn't require a year. If you could just input the date and go forward from there it would do away with this.