Re: [Evolution] Birthdays Anniversaries

[<tzakharov charter net>]

Great explanation.  Thanks, Art.  I appreciate your help.

Regards,
Tim
---- Art Alexion <art RHD ORG> wrote: 
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:20 -0400, tzakharov charter net wrote:
> > Okay, that makes sense, though it seems a little counter intuitive.  I
> > normally don't fill out all the contact information, just names and
> > email addresses, so for me it would be more work to go through all my
> > contacts than to just input each birthday as an annually repeating
> > event.
>
> The idea is that by putting the information there, you can go to a
> contact and see their date of birth, without having to search the
> calendar.  Doing it the other way works in giving you a reminder via the
> calendar but is clumsy in querying a birthday when you have a name.
>
> For example, I can't remember my uncle Sluggo's birthday.  With the
> contact-driven data, I can go into Uncle Sluggo's contact info.  If I
> just input it directly into the calendar, I have to search or browse the
> entire calendar.
>
> In any case, either way works, so use the one that works for you.
>
>
> > Is there any way to remove the Birthdays & Anniversaries calendar? 
>
> I don't think so because it isn't a real calendar; more like a vFolder
> or a search folder.
>
>
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> Art Alexion
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