Why is ical automatically setting new events as "all day" events in Lion

After upgrading to Lion, everytime I add a new event in the Month panel it automatically selects the "all day" checkbox. It didn't used to do this and it's kind of annoying....anybody else?

Gustlock,
Default event creation in Month view results in an all day event.
Lion iCal Help (Add events to a calendar) says: "Add a new event in Month view by double-clicking within the day you want the event to appear. Enter a name and time duration for the event in the event’s title field, and then press Return."
So, in your case try entering "Meeting at 9am"...that will create a one hour event named Meeting.
Lion iCal data detectors are supposed to make entry easier??

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Exactly the same question I was about to post!
Great being able to sync reminders (well overdue) however if I have to re-type a calener envent into reminders it's a waste of time!!
Come on Apple!!
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I understand now - that behavior is annoying under the circumstances you describe, as you clearly want to indicate only a 'delay' in the start date and not necessarily and extension of the end date.
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This might do the job. It makes a new event from any ToDo with a due date and deletes the ToDo. I have added a line to make the new event an all day event but this extra has NOT been tested.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">(* Convert ToDos with due dates to Events
AK IT Carlow May 2006
Sep 2007 - added line to make the new event all day*)
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First, please check as follows.
* Launch iSync.
* Click the icon of your phone.
* Check the calendar (category) you'd like to sync is checked.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4513866&tstart=0#4513866
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Hello.
I tried get state 'All Day Event' from new appointment.
Using the documentation 'GroupWise Tokens' I found only ItemSetAllDayEvent().
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My application has integration with GroupWise. I use C3PO interface for integration.
Application works with appointment window. Application creates a button on the toolbar and gets values from fields of appointment form.
For create a button I use C3PO interface. For getting values from fields of appointment form I use GroupWise Tokens, exactly Token Commander. https://www.novell.com/documentation...dk_gwtoken.pdf
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Example of setting checkbox state :
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string method = string.Format("ItemSetAllDayEvent(1)");
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
So far as I know, an allday event only ever shows a single line of text regardless of view.
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Code:
Changing How All-Day Events Are Displayed
You can change the way that all day events are accepted into your calendar by using the Options menu.
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is there still a need to copy the view files to the groupwise server?
thx

bahsig wrote:
> sry, but i dont see how i can change the way how all day events are displayed.
The setting you quote is actually to determine how all-day events that you
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