Comments on: Ensuring holidays are in your calendar http://www.keenerliving.com/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar A retired professional talks about life, technology, learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar#comment-1101 Bruce Keener Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:45:55 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/05/03/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar/#comment-1101 Thanks for letting me know it all worked out okay. Can be frustrating, though, to solve a problem without really understanding how you did it, which happens to me from time to time. Thanks for the additional info on the hol files. Thanks for letting me know it all worked out okay. Can be frustrating, though, to solve a problem without really understanding how you did it, which happens to me from time to time.

Thanks for the additional info on the hol files.

]]> By: karembeu http://www.keenerliving.com/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar#comment-1086 karembeu Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:04:36 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/05/03/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar/#comment-1086 I even tried changing the setting to "all events" instead of the default "past month ...", will try it tonight, useful ideas to try - will let you know. I even tried changing the setting to “all events” instead of the default “past month …”, will try it tonight, useful ideas to try – will let you know.

]]> By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar#comment-1083 Bruce Keener Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:46:41 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/05/03/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar/#comment-1083 <strong>karembeu</strong> - I am at a loss as to why the holiday data is not syncing to your x50v. I have an x51v (and have had an x50v) and the holidays sync fine for me (and also did when I had the x50v). The only thing that comes to mind is that it could be worthwhile to open one of the holiday entries up in Outlook and click on the "Recurrence" tab to see what the settings are. These holidays are typically set up as All Day Events, with a start time of 12:00am, and end time of 12:00am, and a duration of 1 day. I have had some odd things happen when the duration was set incorrectly, so that might be worth checking. You might even want to change the holidays to 7:00am to 7:00pm, instead of using the All Day settings to see if that helps. Otherwise, I am at a loss as to what it could be. Let me know what you find out when you check the settings. Also, one more thing: you could check to see that they are set to the right year : I know that sounds silly, but it could be that they are set to the previous year, and your Axim isn't syncing them because it might not be set to sync All calendar entries (only the past month plus all future events is the default setting). karembeu – I am at a loss as to why the holiday data is not syncing to your x50v. I have an x51v (and have had an x50v) and the holidays sync fine for me (and also did when I had the x50v).

The only thing that comes to mind is that it could be worthwhile to open one of the holiday entries up in Outlook and click on the “Recurrence” tab to see what the settings are. These holidays are typically set up as All Day Events, with a start time of 12:00am, and end time of 12:00am, and a duration of 1 day. I have had some odd things happen when the duration was set incorrectly, so that might be worth checking. You might even want to change the holidays to 7:00am to 7:00pm, instead of using the All Day settings to see if that helps.

Otherwise, I am at a loss as to what it could be. Let me know what you find out when you check the settings. Also, one more thing: you could check to see that they are set to the right year : I know that sounds silly, but it could be that they are set to the previous year, and your Axim isn’t syncing them because it might not be set to sync All calendar entries (only the past month plus all future events is the default setting).

]]> By: karembeu http://www.keenerliving.com/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar#comment-1082 karembeu Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:27:56 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2007/05/03/ensuring-holidays-are-in-your-calendar/#comment-1082 a comment about your holiday tip, and a question too! you can also add your own custom holidays to the Outlook set-up, although it does involve editing the .hol file which contains all the holiday packs you mentioned. I added a football (soccer) scheulde that someone had put in the appropriate format. Its a nice way to add a lot of events at once. the format is pretty simple, and only requires a header ( [header] ) and one or more lines of data. see the existing file for samples. I just placed my list below the final entries (Yemeni holidays as I recall!) the question is regarding the synching. I now have all this data in Outlook, and have my PC Synch software setup to import holidays as well (to an Axim X50v), so any ideas why it wont import the new holiday set? ~ karembeu a comment about your holiday tip, and a question too!

you can also add your own custom holidays to the Outlook set-up, although it does involve editing the .hol file which contains all the holiday packs you mentioned. I added a football (soccer) scheulde that someone had put in the appropriate format. Its a nice way to add a lot of events at once. the format is pretty simple, and only requires a header ( [header] ) and one or more lines of data. see the existing file for samples. I just placed my list below the final entries (Yemeni holidays as I recall!)

the question is regarding the synching. I now have all this data in Outlook, and have my PC Synch software setup to import holidays as well (to an Axim X50v), so any ideas why it wont import the new holiday set?

~ karembeu

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