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      It amazes me that such a powerful program is lacking some fundamental features. This issue can prolly be broken up into sub issues - but I will leave that up to someone else to do.

      I really love what jira and confluence has done to our workflow but at the same time it has also hurt our workflow with simple, yet missing, features.

      1: Reminders. It is ultimately important that people get reminded about an events if a reminder is setup in a calendar. Many people are mobile now days and subscribe to the team calendars or a personal calendar. For instance I am out of the office in meetings all the time and with the new team calendars I never get reminded of my next meeting. This is quite annoying as it is something that I rely on a daily basis. Why such a simple and powerful feature is missing escapes me.

      2: Making changes to the calendar. Again being mobile quite a bit I may have a client call and want to change their appointment to another time. I have my phone subscribed - but I can't make changes in my phones calendar and therefore I have to resort to going to the website and putting in my login information etc and making the change. This adds time and unnecessary steps.

      3: Adding the time to the fields is a bit cumbersome sometimes. When I enter time into the team calendars I always have to remember to type it in properly in military time. When in other systems a simple drop down of time broken up in 15 minute blocks I can easily select from.

      These 3 above are so utterly important - not just to use (who come from using Google Calendar) but I am almost certain for many other people as well.

      I hope that these get implemented soon.

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            [CONFSERVER-51022] Missing features from team calendar

            Steven Pignataro added a comment - - edited

            Sherif,

            1: Why should we manage more than one company calendar? Team Calendar works great because we can set reminders for tasks and see them at the same time we schedule meetings around it. It doesn't make sense to have more than one calendar system take care of our needs. The types of events that we are creating are meetings, out of office events, tasks (these get pulled in from jira), scheduling for newsletters, etc. We don't want to use multiple calendar software and we moved away from Google Calendar because it was just easier to manage everything within one interface instead of multiple.
            2: Caldav would solve it. Although I think it would be easier to support specific criteria and instead trying to support them all as the issue suggests. Take care of the most popular items and then move onto the other areas.
            3: We are Eastern Time Zone.

            Steven Pignataro added a comment - - edited Sherif, 1: Why should we manage more than one company calendar? Team Calendar works great because we can set reminders for tasks and see them at the same time we schedule meetings around it. It doesn't make sense to have more than one calendar system take care of our needs. The types of events that we are creating are meetings, out of office events, tasks (these get pulled in from jira), scheduling for newsletters, etc. We don't want to use multiple calendar software and we moved away from Google Calendar because it was just easier to manage everything within one interface instead of multiple. 2: Caldav would solve it. Although I think it would be easier to support specific criteria and instead trying to support them all as the issue suggests. Take care of the most popular items and then move onto the other areas. 3: We are Eastern Time Zone.

            Stephen,
            Thanks for the very detailed feedback. We have issues already raised for most of your points, so I've linked them together. You might want to watch/comment/vote on them to stay updated.

            1. Reminders: TEAMCAL-186.
            Question: Do you really use Team Calendars for booking meetings? Why not Outlook / Exchange or Gmail? What types of events do you create?
            2. Being able to edit your calendar from your mobile / a client. This is really covered off by CALDAV support.. This is a hard one for us to fix, I've got TEAMCAL-113 open to track but that that could be open for a while.
            3. This is dependant on your timezone (See TEAMCAL-290)...
            What timezone are you in?

            Sherif Mansour added a comment - Stephen, Thanks for the very detailed feedback. We have issues already raised for most of your points, so I've linked them together. You might want to watch/comment/vote on them to stay updated. 1. Reminders: TEAMCAL-186 . Question: Do you really use Team Calendars for booking meetings? Why not Outlook / Exchange or Gmail? What types of events do you create? 2. Being able to edit your calendar from your mobile / a client. This is really covered off by CALDAV support.. This is a hard one for us to fix, I've got TEAMCAL-113 open to track but that that could be open for a while. 3. This is dependant on your timezone (See TEAMCAL-290 )... What timezone are you in?

              smansour Sherif Mansour
              2ffa6ca892ad Steven Pignataro
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