ICal and anniversaries

While I can link iCal to Address Book for a Birthdays calendar, there seems no way to do the same for Anniversaries, Death Date, etc. Is this possible and, if so, how?

Hi,
See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2254965&#2254965
Best wishes
John M

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I can't get my Ical to pick up anniversaries from my Address Book. Any suggestions?

Hi,
See:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2254965&#2254965
Best wishes
John M

Linking multiple emails to a single event in ical and/or to do's

Hi:
Often I receive emails and I want to link them to an event in ical. OS X does this just fine as long as there is date in the email that OS X can recognize. The problem is sometimes I get multiple emails relating to the same event and I would like to be able to link all of those emails to one single event in ical. My same questions applies to 'to do' items.
And a follow up question--say I receive an email that has no date explicit in the text-I've tried to find some function that would allow me to schedule a new event in ical and would link that email to it. (I hope that all makes sense) I'm open to whatever solution I'll even pay money for 3rd party software if anyone knows of a good program. But I"m looking to stick to the basic ical interface. Any suggestions?

Hi rtwigg,
seems this is one of visio graphics limitation regarding the external data.
visio graphics, may only support for one row.
you may consider this idea :
"It is a good idea to separate your rows into visual units so that you have everything you need and nothing else in a single row. To link a shape to a data row, simply drag the row from the external data window and drop it on the shape. A default data
graphic should immediately appear next to the shape displaying some data from the row. From here you are able to customize the graphic to fit your needs"
by means, you may need to use the visio client.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2010/02/05/no-code-mashups-with-visio-services-and-web-part-connections.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff408345.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394649.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2010/02/21/the-visio-services-javascript-mashup-api.aspx
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Aries
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Need help trying to have more than one delegate calendar display in iCal and on mobile devices

I have several calendars that are under my user name in Google. They all work as delegates and life is good.
I'm trying to set up the local school with a calendar for the sports schedule as well as a separate one for district events like school board meetings and would like to be able to add one for the holidays, exams and things of that nature. The sports calendar works but I can't figure out how to add the second caledar to iCal or my iPhone. It shows shared but doesn't appear as a possible delegate in iCal and will not load on the iPhone.
Google has the output to allow more than one calendar to display on a website but syncing at the level I want with the "i" apps isn't obvious.
Am I missing something? I really don't want one very cluttered master calendar for the school. Being able to turn on and off the various types of calendar will make it much easier to manage.

I have several calendars that are under my user name in Google. They all work as delegates and life is good.
I'm trying to set up the local school with a calendar for the sports schedule as well as a separate one for district events like school board meetings and would like to be able to add one for the holidays, exams and things of that nature. The sports calendar works but I can't figure out how to add the second caledar to iCal or my iPhone. It shows shared but doesn't appear as a possible delegate in iCal and will not load on the iPhone.
Google has the output to allow more than one calendar to display on a website but syncing at the level I want with the "i" apps isn't obvious.
Am I missing something? I really don't want one very cluttered master calendar for the school. Being able to turn on and off the various types of calendar will make it much easier to manage.

In iCal and Notifications on a notebook, is it possible to expand the notes window to make it easier to read and write notes?

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HI,
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Now that I am on Mavericks and no longer able to sync between my iPhone/iPad and Outlook 2011 on my MacBook Pro, I'm finally taking the leap (which I should have done long ago) and abandoning Outlook 2011 all together (doesn't help that Outlook now prompts me to rebuild by Identity multiple times per day). I am hoping to export from Outlook to iCal, Address Book, etc, but I would love it if someone could check my steps.
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Hi acs4055,
As per your query I found a relevant solution for resolving this, actually I haven’t tried the steps you wrote here in your query. But I found a solid key answer for exporting from Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) Outlook 2011 to iCal for Apple mail. This is possible through Drag and Drop method via this you can undoubtedly migrate Outlook 2011 Calendar to ical format.
Hope it will assist you and you will be able to attain a desired solution.

How to get rid of automatically created server accounts in iCal and Mail?

I have recently setup an OS X 10.6.2 Server for our small office. I got the domain name wrong in the initial install and fixed this by doing a complete clean reinstall of OS X 10.6 server (then upgrade to 10.6.2).
The problem is that one of the OS X 10.6.2 clients had been setup to talk to the server prior to the rebuild. Now on this client, I cannot work out how to get rid of or change the automatically created server accounts in iCal and Mail - everytime you login, these are recreated using the old domain name (and of course don't work).
In Mail if you remove the server account (from Accounts in Preferences), it just pops back again. I even removed every trace of the old domain name from the apple.com.mail.plist file but when I re-open Mail that darned server account (with the old domain name) just pops up again.
In iCal its slightly different in that you can remove the account and it stays away while you have iCal open. But as soon as you close and re-open it, that server account just pops up again!
I thought it might be something to do with Kerberos and found a Kerberos file on the client which had the old domain name throughout it - I changed all these references to the new domain name, but still the same behaviour in Mail and iCal.
This is doing my head in. Any ideas?
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I suggest you ask in the snow leopard server forum
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ICal and multiple iMac users w/ iPhones

We have three user accounts on one iMac. Each user has an iPhone. One iCal account has new appointments made on the iMac, but these entries *do not sync to the iPhone.*
I have been through the documentation and cannot figure out why it does not synch.
Any advice?! Thanks

The good and bad news is that I have the answer to my one question.
If you stumble upon this item the answer is that the INFO tab on iTunes when you are syncing has the options for syncing iCal and Address book. Check the right boxes and all should be well.

Recommendations for interface problems in ical and mail?

Generally my impressions of 10.7 are positive... the full screen views are great and navigating among screens is super easy. It makes the screen on my 11" MacBook Air feel much larger.
But there are two major steps backwards in the two apps I use most: mail.app and iCal.
mail.app 5.0 - In mail.app 4.0 when a thread was selected, the /closed/ thread items would appear in the message browser. In mail.app 5.0, it is only possible to "preview" the a thread if you click on the small number adjacent to the thread in the preview pane. This previews the content of the thread, but does not mark the messages as "unread".
However, if you miss that little number icon (and accidentally click on the thread itself) the messages open in the message pane and they are marked as "read" automatically. So, this means that if I delete a message above a thread that contains unread messages, that thread becomes selected immediately and the messages are marked as "read" (even though I did not read them).
This makes it almost impossible for me to prioritize my email, I miss important emails because they're marked as "read", and I'm constantly hitting command+shift+U as I gingerly navigate my inbox.
iCal 5.0 - in iCal 4.0 there was a left pane that allowed users to select calendars /and/ see a simple "month preview". These were two very useful features, which allowed me to turn on and off calendars with a single click and see how upcoming weeks/months looked. In ical 5.0 there is no simple month view option (nor can one see two or more months simultaneously except in the cluttered "year" view).
Am I missing some buried setting that will return the 4.0 features I'm missing? Are there any suggestions (other than switching to other software) that folks can recommend?

I completely agree. The conversations view in Lion Mail is pretty confusing and the whole read vs unread thing doesn't really work well. And the Unread smart mailbox doesnt update in real time anymore. But the bigger issue is iCal, which in my opinion is a total disaster. I am really shocked and angry at how bad iCal and the Address Book are. These are crucial apps and Apple has just thrown us a steaming pile. After all these years these apps should be beautiful shining examples of great software.

IPad, iCal and iTunes sync problem

Early last year, I posted (https://discussions.apple.com/message/18503738#18503738) that syncing between my iPad 3 and my Snow Leopard iMac behaved oddly. AppleCare Support dweebs had failed to resolve the issue and no one on here managed to come up with any suggested fix.
However, for no apparent reason, the problem stopped and I stopped monitoring this august and highly esteemed forum and all went well ...
... until recently.
I sync via a USB cable and I do not use iCloud (as I'm on Snow Leopard) save for Find My iPad, all other iCloud options are switched off. All other app syncing appears to work correctly, it is only iCal and Calendars that don't.
Just why things have started to go wrong now, probably in the last three or four weeks, I do not know but now the following syncing errors occur ...
1) On the iPad: new appointments or changes to appointments made on the iPad are not synced to the iMac;
2) On the iMac, changes to appointments already on the iMac are shown on the iPad as both the new and old timings/details, not as replacements;
3) On the iMac, new appointments are made in the default (or last) calendar used. These are then edited as required, with the details put in and, if necessary, calendars changed. On the iPad, however, these will show as both "New event" in the default calendar and as the edited correct appointment, not just as the finalised entry;
4) Appointments deleted from the iMac are not deleted from the iPad.
In other words, changes on the iPad are not synced across to the iMac and changes on the iMac are synced twice, once as the unedited appointment and once as the edited appointment - if an appointment is deleted it remains on the iPad.
When the original problem arose (similar but not identical) the Apple dweebs suggested deleting my iCloud account (not synced, used only for Find My iPad) but doing that this time does not remove the bug.
I'm running a 27" quad-core i7 iMac under MacOSX.6.8 (Build 10K549), iCal v4.0.4 (1395.7) and I sync via USB and iTunes v11.0.2 (26). The iPad is a 64GB 4G/wifi iPad 3, currently running under under iOS6.1.3. To the best of my knowledge, all available updates have been applied to both devices.
I have deleted all calendars off the iPad by deselecting Calendars in iTunes' iPad tab, turned it off. Swicthed off the iMac, Safe Booted and run OnyX full suite, I have then Single User booted, run fsck -fy three times then run applejack AUTO restart, then rebooted the iMac, rebooted the iPad, sync'd without Calendars then resynced with the Calendars selected again.
I had hoped that this would remove any cache files, temporary files, stuck RAM or whatever else could conceivably be causing this bizarre behaviour - to no bl**dy avail! It is behaving exactly and frustratingly as before!
What on earth is going on? if I can't use my iPad as my main calendar and add new appointments when out and about and have them synced properly and reliably to my iMac then the whole thing is a waste of time andI shall have to revert to a paper diary again!
HELP!!!!! Please, before I go mad with frustration!

I'm not sure whether getting no replies to this (or the earlier) query is something of which to be proud - or terrified!
Am I the only person in the world with this bizarre insoluble problem? if so, why me? Am I a Chosen One or, more likely, someone to be punished for a lifetime of misdeeds!
But there is progress. I have no idea what happened at a technical level or why, but the matter has now resolved itself and things are syncing normally. Until the next time!
Perhaps there is a clue somewhere in the following ...
I run my iMac 24/7 and thus I rarely close iCal on the iMac and when i do it is usually by accident. The same applies to Calendars on the iPad, although I do reboot from time to time.
Anyway, I installed some software on the iMac which required a reboot and, as susual, iCal opened via Preferences > Accounts > Startup items - only this time I was presented with a perfectly blank calendar. A message appeared, from within iCal (oh, how I wish i had noticed what it actually said) saying something along the lines of "importing calendars". This took a little while and it wasn't instant - maybe it does this every time it reatrts but too fast for me to notice.
After this "import", if indeed that's what it was, the syncing was corrected!
Coincidence? Cause and effect? Magic? Too many magic mushrooms for breakfast?
If that is what resolved the issue, then how can I cause an import deliberately for when the syncing goes astray again and just what does an "import" do that a normal launch doesn't and which might have resolved the glitch?
I have had this "import" message before, but very very rarely, so it may well have resolved the syncing issue last time and I just didn't make the possible connection.
Does that help anyone come to my rexcue with an explanation and, possibly, a strategy for preventing or deliberatly correcting syncing issues in the future?

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Everytime I close adressbook or iCal and reopen them, they do not fill the screen. The shrink and stay smaller only a view pixels under the menu-bar. It can be reproduced and I'm not that dumb that it's my personal fault I think. Or is it?? No programm installed to change the look nothing that has to do with iCal or adressbook...

Sorry but the problem still exists. Deleted the files while the programs were closed. Then I opened them, resized them to fill the hole screen but the same thing (after I reopened them): The windows are not totally smaller, but they are some pixels (about 15) smaller at the top, which looks ugly because i like them directly under the menu-bar. I don't get it.

My reminders are gone from my Ical since upgrade. What do I need to do to input reminders in Ical and be able to print reminders with my ical. Thank you

My reminders are gone from my Ical since upgrade. What do I need to do to input reminders in Ical and be able to print reminders with my ical. Thank you

I totally agree. I just wasted .5 hrs trying to figure out how to manipulate and sync the reminders with the iCAl. Thanks for posting this thread online, I can stop wasting my time now. Apple, please change it back or make these apps sync.
Side note. I was creating my to do list and found the ability to asign a date by draging the task to the calendar in the bottom right. Then I discovered that I can drag that same reminder/to-do task into iCal and it will be created as an event. Would be great if I could simply sync the reminders to iCal instead of draging them over though. Then when I make the change in one the other can update with the next sync. This also prevents human error if I drag and drop the reminder onto the wrong date in iCal.

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