How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?

[A Former User]

I am a bit confused here. Essentially, I am talking about the core calendar app UT offers by default.
When I click the middle "Calendars" button on the upper right corner of the screen in the user interface, I am offered only three options:

• Add online Calendar

• Birthdays and Anniversaries

• Personal

Where exactly do I add other categories? (No, I don't want to make an online calendar account just to do this.)

[kugiigi]

I think it's one of the missing features in the calendar app. You can't manage your different calendars. You can't even remove added online calendars, you can only disable them

[A Former User]

@kugiigi That is unfortunate. I hope someone reconciles this problem in the near future.

[kugiigi]

@nocturn-adrift Usually contributors start with something they badly want or need

https://gitlab.com/ubports/apps/calendar-app

[A Former User]

@kugiigi I guess this seems like a doable project for me to do. I'm not much of a coder, but I would assume adding a couple categories could be doable for me. I am just baffled that there isn't a "Work" or vocational category.

To start with, however, I would want to see what others would want. I don't think I can contribute a touchbar, that is too high skill for me. My thinking is that at the minimum, these categories would work:

• Holiday/Birthday/Anniversary (already have practically).
• Personal (already have)
• Work/Job
• School/Education

Eventually a "custom" option with a color picker for the catagory would be ideal. There's my roadmap.

[cliffcoggin]

@nocturn-adrift For myself I don't need more categories. In fact I would be happy with no separate categories at all.

[c4pp4]

@nocturn-adrift
You can do it by yourself by creating appropriate file(s) in /home/phablet/.config/evolution/sources directory. You can use predefined birthdays.source file as an example, e.g.:

new filename:
notes.source

content:

[Data Source]
DisplayName=Notes
DisplayName[cs]=Poznámky
Enabled=true
Parent=local-stub

[Calendar]
BackendName=local
Color=#77216f
Selected=true

[Ubuntu]
AccountId=0
ApplicationId=
AutoRemove=true
Writable=true
Metadata=

Change DisplayName and Color variables to whatever is desired. (e.g. get color values from here https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_hexadecimal.asp).

[A Former User]

@c4pp4 Just wanted to personally thank you for this. I have finally got around to doing this manually and I can already tell a big difference in my pleasure using evolution-calandar(?).

I have decided to eventually get around to making a script to automatically apply the defaults I suggested in the future.

[DJac]

@c4pp4 thank you. This soluce solve my probleme. Even of i admit it is not the easiest way...

[Charly]

Here are some more calendar problems:
The birthday calendar is fed from the address book. Unfortunately, I have not found out how I can change the dates from the birthday calendar. For some people I now have the birthday entry in the calendar 3 or 4 times.

The other problem with the calendar: I once entered an appointment while on holiday in a different time zone. After I returned home and changed the time zone of the mobile phone back to my normal time zone, this appointment was moved in the calendar by the number of hours of the time difference.
By the way, I have a Volla X23 phone and am on RC 2024-W03.

Greetings Charly

[lduboeuf]

@Charly said in How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?:

have not found out how I can change the dates from the birthday calendar

Just select your contact in address-book-app, you should see the Birthday appearing and edit the contact. Just noticed that due to probably my local tests here the birthday persist even after modification on some contacts

[lduboeuf]

@Nocturn-Adrift said in How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?:

@kugiigi I guess this seems like a doable project for me to do. I'm not much of a coder, but I would assume adding a couple categories could be doable for me. I am just baffled that there isn't a "Work" or vocational category.

humm how could you make it without coding :face_without_mouth: ? Btw adding a ticket to calendar-app repo would be a good start

[lduboeuf]

@lduboeuf said in How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?:

@Nocturn-Adrift said in How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?:

@kugiigi I guess this seems like a doable project for me to do. I'm not much of a coder, but I would assume adding a couple categories could be doable for me. I am just baffled that there isn't a "Work" or vocational category.

humm how could you make it without coding :face_without_mouth: ? Btw adding a ticket to calendar-app repo would be a good start

I've pushed something, https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/apps/lomiri-calendar-app/-/merge_requests/232
This allows to create and remove a local calendar

Test welcome.

[Charly]

@lduboeuf

Yes, that's my problem. Once the birthdays are added to the birthday calendar, they stay there forever. If you change something in the address book, more entries can be added. I have three entries in the birthday calendar for the same person several times.
Greetings Charly

[lduboeuf]

@Charly said in How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?:

@lduboeuf

Yes, that's my problem. Once the birthdays are added to the birthday calendar, they stay there forever. If you change something in the address book, more entries can be added. I have three entries in the birthday calendar for the same person several times.
Greetings Charly

I see i have the same issue. Could you please file a bug in address-book-app repository ?

[Charly]

@lduboeuf
I am new to this forum. Where can I find this repo
( address-book-app repository)?

I only find app devellopment

Thanks
Charly

[lduboeuf]

@Charly said in How do I add more local categories in the Calendar core app?:

@lduboeuf
I am new to this forum. Where can I find this repo
( address-book-app repository)?

I only find app devellopment

Thanks
Charly

https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/address-book-app/-/issues