Add option to hide Contact's birthdays

[davidhedlund]

Contact birthdays are showed automatically, the problem is that with Birthday Adapter installed your calendars "Contacts birthdays" have to be hidden, otherwise duplicates of birthdays are being displayed; Unfortunately Etar do not have this option.

In S Planner you can hide them: S Planner -> Calendars -> Display -> Uncheck Contact's birthdays. Doing so did only hide Contact's birthdays in S Planner but not in Etar.

Its not possible to hide Contact's birthdays in Etar, can you please add that option?

[davidhedlund]

Free-Software-for-Android/Standalone-Calendar#13

[Gitsaibot]

Go to Settings, choose your Calendar and then uncheck Contact's birthdays. Did you tried this ?

[davidhedlund]

@Gitsaibot

Unfortunately Etar do not have this option.

[Gitsaibot]

I have an option on my nextcloud calendar!

[davidhedlund]

What do nextcloud calendar have to do with Etar?

[Gitsaibot]

It's an example! With Etar you can maintain all calendars on your phone. I have different calendars like google, nextcloud... All of them shows me the options above under Settings in Etar.

[davidhedlund]

@Gitsaibot I don't see nextcloud on that image.

[Zykino]

In Agendas to show, I have a "Contacts" calendar, if I uncheck it my contacts birthdays disappears.
In agendas to sync I see the same agenda and it comes from my Google account.

[davidhedlund]

@Zykino Where is "Agendas to show"? I only find Agenda but its not possible to check/uncheck anything there.

[Zykino]

On the left menu the option just before parameters.
I click on it and have a view like the screenshot above. You just have to find the right calendar and unselect it.

[davidhedlund]

@Zykino @Gitsaibot I don't have "Contacts birthday" or "Agendas to show" under Settings like you guys. Using Etar 1.0.8 without anything else installed.

[Zykino]

It's not inside settings, it's before: make the menu appear from the left and you have this options:

Day
Week
Month
Agenda

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Agenda to show
Settings

[davidhedlund]

@Zykino Thank you for helping me out. Well, when I click on "Agenda" I only get a list of agendas, the only message I see is in the top of the list that says

"Touch to view events before 31 Dec 2016".

[Zykino]

Yeah but it's not "Agenda you have to click on. It's the option under it (under the line, before settings)

[davidhedlund]

@Zykino Thanks again. I don't have that option. I got:

Day
Week
Month
Agenda
Calendars to display
Settings

In Calendars to display I got My calendar, if I deselect this I get rid of the contacts birthdays but also my standard calendar, also it is not possible to delete My calendar.

In S Planner you can hide Contact's birthdays: S Planner -> Calendars -> Display -> Uncheck Contact's birthdays. However, this option if not found in Etar, can you please add it?

[davidhedlund]

@Gitsaibot Please look at this again.

[Zykino]

I think it's S Planner / the My calendar app that give your calendar to Etar with your contact info in one calendar instead of breaking it in multiples calendars. To be sure of that a Etar dev will need a way to see how the data is synced.
WARNING if you show the data that is synced they will see all your events.

[davidhedlund]

@Zykino Interesting, so do you have any idea how I can output a debug for the developer?

[Zykino]

No, maybe go on your calendar (on it's native interface) and try disabling birthday calendar from here, or from it's sync's option. I don't know how to access log on Android :s

[davidhedlund]

@Zykino In S Planner you can hide them: S Planner -> Calendars -> Display -> Uncheck Contact's birthdays. Doing so did only hide Contact's birthdays in S Planner but not in Etar.

[smichel17]

This thread was hard to follow. Screenshots would be quite useful.

[mueller-ma]

Since etar does not generate birthday events itself (would be in #234) they must come from the remote server or any other app installed on the smartphone.

[mueller-ma]

Since etar does not generate birthday events itself (would be in #234) they must come from the remote server or any other app installed on the smartphone.

From Birthday Calendar Readme:

Birthday Calendar provides birthdays, anniversaries, and other events from your contacts as a real calendar, which is displayed in your standard Android calendar application. To my knowledge, this is the first implementation that implements birthdays as a real calendar integrated in the Android calendar.

So it sounds to me that there is a seperate calendar which can be disabled in etar. Navigation drawer => Displayed Calendars => uncheck the birthday calendar

[jspricke]

Etar has no feature for birthdays, so if they are shown to you, it must come from a calendar you show in Etar. Closing because it's not a bug.