Android Agenda widget random event display

[David Green]

G'day,

When I looked at my phone's homepage to look at the Calengoo Agenda widget, it shows nothing scheduled for today.

So I scroll down to look to the upcoming week and then scroll back to the top, and see;

Now today shows an event for 25 October, so I scroll down and up, and see;

Now today shows an event for 24 October, again scroll down and up, and see;

and now Today's event is 24 October.

Every time I scroll and come back, it is a new random entry, but not actually the empty one that is supposed to be there.

So I think, Okay, the scrolling is causing a problem, so I edit the widget and turn off the scrolling, and when I return to the homepage, the whole widget is invisible and cannot be tapped. 

Part of the widget is still registered as I was able to display its sizing handles by entering the launcher's page edit mode.

Editing the widget and turning scrolling back on restores the widget to display.

The same effect happens when I changed the phone's launcher to its default.

[David Green]

Given that the Agenda widget is a little "buggy", I thought I was look into other widgets for an alternative, and gave the "Day" widget a go.

It doesn't scroll, so the randomiser issue of the Agenda widget does not happen

But what I did notice was that it does not display entries as one would expect.

The widget is configured to display "Next 3 Events".

As I had "completed" the event of 23:00 at 15:00, I expected it to no longer be listed, but then I realised that the widget is for "Next 3 Events" not "Next 3 pending Events", oh well, that would have been nice.

However, as the 23:00 event was "completed" I would have expected it to be struck-though like it is an any other view in Calengoo. At least, if is on display, it would look as if it was not outstanding.

What do you think Dominique?

Does that make sense?

/David…

[CalenGoo Support]

Hi David,

thank you for reporting these issues! However, so far no one else has reported such problems and I haven't changed anything in these widgets for a while. So I suppose it might just be a refresh problem on your phone, maybe due to battery saving settings or due to your launcher (but you said you already tried a different launcher).

On Android it can happen that a widget becomes too complex and then the launcher stops accepting refresh commands for the widgets of a whole app. Maybe that's the problem. Please try this:

1. Remove all CalenGoo widgets from your home screen.

2. Open "Settings", "Widgets", "Available widgets" and uncheck at least the widgets that are marked as "in use". Better uncheck all widgets.

3. Reboot your phone.

4. Open "Settings", "Widgets", "Available widgets" and check the widgets that you would like to use again.

5. Add the widgets to your home screen again (reboot the phone once again if they don't appear in the widgets list yet). Please first try only the agenda or day widget. Only when that works fine, try additional widgets.

Does that fix the problems you have with the widgets?

Kind regards

Dominique

[David Green]

Hi Dominique,

I only have 1 Calengoo widget deployed.

Anyway, I did the above process, despite the suspicion that it may not yield any favourable results…

But, the end result is that the first entry without an event was 28 October, and as you can see from the screen shot, the event for that day is "Wednesday, 25 October", an erroneous entry, and the empty date on the following day has a similarly inappropriate entry.

Interestingly, it is only if the date scrolls in from "out of view", does the empty date entry acquire a inappropriate value.

I created a tall agenda widget that kept 28 & 29 October on display, and they remained uncorrupted, and only some November entries which were blank got corrupted as they were, out of view until scrolled in.

If I could turn off the scroll, but since that causes the Widget to disappear, that's not a good choice.

The key is obviously empty days, and the widget render is picking up something to fill in the blank.

I will try a different work-around, as the "Day" widget doesn't quite meet requirements. By setting a 3 day scope on events, removing completed, and just leaving "today" as empty, that may minimise the error occurrence, for at least a week, maybe… or maybe not…

… as soon as "today" scrolls out of sight, it's done for 🙁

/David…

[CalenGoo Support]

Hi David,

oh you are right, the empty days seem to be the problem. Therre should be no empty lines between October 23 and 24. Which option did you select to make that empty line appear?

Scrollable widget re-use existing rows when they are scrolled. That's probably how the data of wrong rows appears there. The row was not completely cleared and filled with new data before it was re-used.

So that seems to be a bug in CalenGoo now that might be caused by the empty lines that you have e.g. on October 23rd. Do you have no events on that day? Or is the event of October 23rd noch displayed (and an empty line is displayed instead)?

Kind regards

Dominique

[David Green]

… I though I had already answered this one 🤔 oh well…

All the events of that day had completed, and with the setting of not showing completed events, the space was clear.

[David Green]

Hi Dominique,

There were 3 events on 23 Oct, but they were all expired or completed leaving nothing outstanding, as per the widget setting "Show past events" = off, and "Always show today (even if empty) = "on".

On the previous screen-shot, 28 Oct and 29 Oct have no events, and were populated with invalid data as they returned "on-screen" and in that instance, the setting "Show empty days" = on, and the widget was large enough and was set to 14 days display to encompass those dates which are empty.

/David…

[David Green]

Hi Dominique,

Did you ever get around to fixing this issue?

I minimised the occurrence of the issue by reducing the widget's calendar scope to 3 days (from the default of 14?), but it still crops up now and again.

I would like to bring it back to the default, or at least a week, as sometimes the widget is just an almost empty black box as no events fall into the scope of the configuration 😊

/David…