Birthdays

[CalenGoo Support]

Hi!

If you saw birthdays appearing in your main Google Calendar, then you can read more about it here, it is a new feature of Google Calendar:

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/09/create-birthdays-in-google-calendar.html

I.e. Google has now removed the separate birthdays calendar and instead put the birthdays into the main calendar. I think it would have been better to keep it separate but Google has changed it this way now.

Anyway, they have also added a field "eventType" to see which events are birthdays and which are normal events. With the next update there will be a setting "Settings > Display and Use > General > Show Google Calendar birthdays" that you can turn off to hide these birthdays. Or you can keep it turned on and use "Background Color Calendar" in the next line to set the color for the birthdays.

(To get this update earlier you can become a "Tester" on https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.calengoo.android .)

However, this will only work for birthdays that were downloaded after you have installed this new CalenGoo update. Because only then CalenGoo will download the "eventType" of the changed events. So to let CalenGoo display all birthdays correctly you have to re-download your main calendar, e.g. by setting it to "Forced redownload once, visible" under "Settings > Visibility/Download" and then syncing once. But I would recommend creating a backup under "Settings > Backups > Automatic backups > Backup now" before doing this.

Please don't hesitate to contact me again if you have further questions!

Kind regards

Dominique

[K Wood]

I just noticed tonight that all my contacts' birthdays and anniversaries were showing up on Calengoo. I checked my settings, discovered the new settings and deselected "Show Google calendar birthdays". However it didn't change anything until I followed your directions above and forced a single redownload of my main calendar. Thank you for proactively posting the problem and the fix! I wish every developer were as conscientious and responsive as you!