Calendar: Customize reminder type for automatically generated birthday events

[gbmaster]

Is it possible to add a way to customize the reminders (or, as I'd like to, totally disable them) for the birthday events automatically generated from the contacts?

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[tcitworld]

That's a core issue but I guess we better keep this opened for discussion.

[georgehrke]

@gbmaster Please link the server issue after creating it

[gbmaster]

As requested, https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/1753

[gbmaster]

My ticket was closed, as it was a dup of https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/1505

[georgehrke]

There will be a dropdown with the following options:

• None
• 9AM on day of birthday
• 1 day before (9AM)
• 2 days before (9AM)
• 1 week before (9AM)

Nonetheless this requires changes to the Nextcloud dav-server
Ergo this won't be implemented before Nc 12

[tcitworld]

Does having an <input type="datetime"> would add too much complexity ? How and where do you plan to have the dropdown anyway ?

[georgehrke]

It's supposed to go in the settings area, one setting for all birthdays.
<input type="datetime"> won't work, because you don't want to trigger all birthday reminders on the very same date (and time)

[georgehrke]

The options in the dropdown should cover almost every use case.
Is there an important one i was missing?

[tcitworld]

Hmm, I find 9AM a bit late. Also, I would like to have the 2 weeks before option.
And finally, why not checkboxes to have maybe multiple different valarms ?

[GuillaumeAmat]

Hi, is someone working on that issue?

[georgehrke]

@GuillaumeAmat Not at the moment. Do you want to take over? :)

[GuillaumeAmat]

I would love it but I don't have enough time right now...

[fredRos]

I would like to disable alarms altogether. My thunderbird client cannot update the reminder and I even can't dismiss them. Really annoying

[ggeorgg]

I have the same problem. I would like to have the reminders in thunderbird but if they are activated, I can't dismiss them because of the read-only propertie of the calendar.
@fredRos: You can right-click a calendar in thunderbird and disable the reminders

[fredRos]

Thanks @ggeorgg I didn't know that option. Have a contact birthday coming tomorrow. I'm looking forward to no reminder in Thunderbird