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mOOky
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When the Alerts! create a shadow appointment, it defaults to making the
appointment so that in Outlook it is one hour in duration and "Busy"
(as opposed to "Free" or "Out of the Office").
I am doing the Eating for Life diet plan and eat six times a day, about
3 hours apart. I typically will spend 15-30 minutes eating
depending, and would like my calendar to be able to reflect that.
Is it possible to adjust the default duration for the Shadow entry, or set it to "0 minutes" instead of an hour?
Similarily, if I just want to be "reminded" of something (like waking
up) it shouldn't appear as a busy entry on my calendar. Is it
possible to adjust the default for this?
If not, can these be new features in the next release (for which purchasers are entitled to the upgrade? :)
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In the next release, I looking into setting a duration of 1 min and as "free" time.
Edited by JohnCody on 11 Apr 2006 at 9:30pm
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JohnCody wrote:
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Wow, talk about customer support. If I hadn't already purchased the software I'd definitley buy it. Same day replies... nice.
So are you looking at making that the "hard coded" standard, or do you think it is possible to have it configurable?
Edited by JohnCody on 11 Apr 2006 at 10:15pm
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I will probably make it fixed, but see how many users request to have it be configurable.
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Configurable would be ideal since many alerts are the beginning of a period of time that I may be busy or tentatively busy or free.
Depending upon the reson for the alert, ie, a medication that takes 1 minute to do or an appointment that may be expected to last 30 minutes or 1 hour.
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Hoops wrote:
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Configurable would be ideal since many alerts are the beginning of a period of time that I may be busy or tentatively busy or free.
Depending upon the reson for the alert, ie, a medication that takes 1 minute to do or an appointment that may be expected to last 30 minutes or 1 hour.
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Thanks for the feedback - I will consider it for the next version.
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I second the idea that configurable would be ideal .... both the time and status.
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I will see if I can make it configurable in the next release in a few weeks.
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OK,
I decided to make the generated Outlook alerts be fixed as:
- 10 Mins Duration
- "FREE" status
- "Private" Sensitivity
I decided this because these generated alerts are really meant to be just a visual indication of an upcoming alert on your homescreen, and not really a full-fledge outlook appointment. If I added the ability to select the status, private/public, Meeting mode, and duration - it would start to make the user-interface too "busy"/complex.
I will keep the idea of a configurable outlook appointment for a future update.
Edited by JohnCody on 08 Apr 2006 at 11:14am
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UPDATE:
The next release (within a week) of Alerts will allow you to set a global default for all outlook entries to be either FREE or BUSY.
And you will be able to override the default on a per-alert basis 
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