All Day Events reminders

[Grzegorz Kliber]

Hi All,

first of all I want to admit CalenGoo is the best calendar and PIM on the market. I took a lot of time to adjust it in the way I want, but now it´s almost perfect.

I use Android 7.0, mobile: Samsung S6 Edge +

I still have some issues, but the most important is reminder for all day event. In the reminder tab there is a setting allowing to set daily reminder for al-day-events. I set it to 9AM, but it doesn´t work at all. When I create a new event (all day) no default reminder (eg. 9AM) is created. I was trying to by-pass it by setting ´remind 1 hour earlier´ (what should mean: 8 AM in my case) but when it is sent to Google Calendar, the interpretation by Google is ´1 hour earlier before the next day starts´ what finally sets reminder on 11PM at previous day.

My only intension is to set default reminder for all day-long-events at 9AM in the day of occurence. I get used to it using Wunderlist and I found it very halpful.

Could you help me with above? It would be very, very appreciated (I begun to try some tricks with tasker, but no luck so far...) It will make CalenGoo perfect:) 

Thank you in advance,

Greg

[CalenGoo Support]

Hi Greg,

thank you very much, I am glad that you like CalenGoo so much! :-)

There are a lot of settings related to reminders in CalenGoo. Please first let me explain how reminders in Google Calendar work:

When you set a reminder in Google Calendar the reminder time is relative to the start of the event. E.g. a "1 hour pop-up" reminder is displayed one hour before the event starts. However all-day events don't have a start time so Google Calendar uses 12 AM as the start time of all-day events. But using 12 AM means that you can only set reminders on the day before the all-day event.

Then a while ago Google Calendar started supporting reminders on the same day as the all-day event. However these reminders are not visible to CalenGoo, because they are after 12 AM and Google seems to save them somewhere where CalenGoo cannot see them.

Now let's see how CalenGoo handles these reminders:

CalenGoo displays reminders for timed events in the same way as Google Calendar. However reminders for all-day events are not displayed relative to 12 AM but to the time that you set under "Settings > Reminders > All-day reminders". You can set it to 12 AM or to something else. But using 12 AM means that you can only set reminders on the day before the all-day event. When setting "All-day reminders" to e.g. "6 PM" and adding a "1 hour pop-up" reminder to an all-day event CalenGoo would display the reminder at "5 PM". So setting it to a late time like "6 PM" is better but it means that Google Calendar will display these all-day reminders at a wrong time.

So to get a reminder at 9AM on the day of occurrence you could set "Settings > Reminders > All-day reminders" to "9 AM" and set a default reminder for new events to "0 hours pop-up" under "Settings > Reminders > Reminders for new events > Add reminder..." in CalenGoo. Then all new events would automatically get a "0 hours pop-up" reminder and this would result in an alarm at 9 AM for all-day events. However it would mean that the default reminder would also be set for timed events and you would have to remove it there if you don't want it.

In addition to these default reminders for new events it is also possible to set calendar reminders, i.e. reminders that are used for all existing and future events of a calendar. You can configure these reminders under "Settings > Visibility/Download" by tapping the blue button at the end of the line.

You can find further information about reminders here: http://android.calengoo.com/pagedoc/pageedit/pagereminders/pagereminders.html

In the current version of CalenGoo you can also turn "Settings > Display and Use > Edit view > Allow pop-up reminders after the start or end of events (they will work only in CalenGoo)" on to set reminders after the start of an event in CalenGoo (but only on the same day).

So is this sufficient or would you maybe like to have a calendar reminder only for all-day events so that you can set a reminder for all all-day events that would be displayed only in CalenGoo to 9 AM ?

Kind regards

Dominique