Re: [Evolution] Alarm for addressbook items

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 21:29 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi rene,
>
> Am Montag, den 15.11.2004, 05:21 -0500 schrieb rene castberg org:
> > I am having trouble getting alarms go off when a contact has a birthday or
> > aniversary. Is this at all possible?
>
> the answer depends on which evolution version you are using... 2.0.x
> should be really easy, 1.4.x hasn't any obvious support for it (if you
> mean "entering a birthday in the contact editor and automatically remind
> me of it"). so i'd really update to 2.0.2, there you have to activate
> the calendar named "birthdays & anniversaries" (grr, why isn't that
> string translated by the way?) in the calendar view (2.0.x supports
> multiple calendars).
IIRC, the events created by the birthdays calendar backend don't include
alarms, so you won't get any notification, apart from having the event
in your calendar view.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>