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G2 Calendar, Need Scheduling Help Please ?

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TahoeRunner

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Hello All,

Just looking for a Calendar function or App that I can use in my LG G2 that will give me "Outlook like" meeting scheduling abilities.

I simply need the ability to send and receive "meeting invites", and/or "appointment invites" from my G2, like I used to be able to do from within my old BlackBerry calendar before I switched to the G2, and as I can currently do in Outlook 2007/2010 on my desktop.

I don't use "ms exchange" so any info regarding that is not relevant.

I can't believe the G2 default calendar cannot perform the basic "meeting invite send & receive functions" like the calendar in a BlackBerry, or as in Outlook on a desktop.

Hope there is someway to do it. Maybe I'm doing something wrong in my default G2 calendar, or maybe there is a good APP that can handle this issue?

Thanks much for any help and relevant advice.


TahoeRunner
6/30/14
1:14pm pacific
 
What calendar are you using, stock with a gmail account? I think the key is to have a gmail account to sync the calendar to, to gain all calendar abilities.

I am able to create and receive calendar appointments, invite people, etc. I also came from a Blackberry, and there isn't anything I can't do on my G2, calendar-wise that I could do on my BB.

So what happens when you create a calendar invite on the G2 or when you receive one? I send myself calendar invites from work (Outlook on exchange) to my G2 all the time as reminders, invites from others get auto-added to my calendar. My G2 is not on exchange, just gmail.
 
Klotar said:
What calendar are you using, stock with a gmail account? I think the key is to have a gmail account to sync the calendar to, to gain all calendar abilities.

I am able to create and receive calendar appointments, invite people, etc. I also came from a Blackberry, and there isn't anything I can't do on my G2, calendar-wise that I could do on my BB.

So what happens when you create a calendar invite on the G2 or when you receive one? I send myself calendar invites from work (Outlook on exchange) to my G2 all the time as reminders, invites from others get auto-added to my calendar. My G2 is not on exchange, just gmail.
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Hi Klotar,

Thank you for responding.

Did you you actually read my original post?

Are you familiar with the type of meeting and appointment "invites" and "responses to invites" that one has available to them in Outlook?

Those same types of invites and abilities to respond to those types of invitations that are integral to Outlook were also a part of Blackberry's calendar system.

From your response and comment about your former use of Blackberry I'm wondering if you are not familiar with what I'm referring to, because I cannot find the settings in my LG G2's default calendar to send those kinds of invites, nor the ability to respond to similar invites when I receive them on my G2.

Please confirm if you are aware of, and have the experience with, the types of invites and responses I am referring to that are part of Outlook, and Blackberry.

If so, we can move forward and then you can let me know how to send and receive those types on my G2.

Thanks very much Klotar.


TahoeRunner
07/03/2014
12:58pm Pacific
 
You are right TahoeRunner, I guess I don't get it. Sorry about that.

So if you go into your G2 calendar, set up a meeting/appointment, and add someone(s) to your meeting, the invite that it generates and sends to the meeting participants is not as expected?

I have read this thread through several times and I guess it's the "Outlook-like" part that I'm probably confused on.

If I create a meeting on my G2 Calendar app (connected to my gmail calendar), invite myself at work (Outlook 2010 on Exchange), then at work I get an email that Outlook recognizes as a meeting invite (with the green checkmark to accept, etc.). I click Accept, Outlook adds it to my work calendar and sends an 'Accepted' response back to my gmail account on my G2. I just tested this now and that's what my BB's did also.

Note: my G2 is not on any corporate exchange server, I just use gmail. At work I am on Outlook/Exchange but for the purposes of this test, it could have been someone else instead (just easier if I test it myself).

What part am I missing, and/or is what I described above not working for you?
 
I have the opposite problem. Just got a G3 and the build in calendar app is not importing the meeting information. Like Klotar, I tend to invite myself between my work calendar (Notes) and my home calendar (Outlook and Google).

I'd tend to create the invitation on IBM Notes and invite my home e-mail ID, then accept it on Outlook and my phone so it gets posted in all the places that no longer play nicely with each other (i.e. Google and Outlook).

This worked on my Note II. Now that I have a G3 when I click on "Open" for the ICS file, the calendar is not listed as one of the apps that can handle that.

Does this work in a G2 and thus it's only a G3 problem?


I guess I could do the inviting in the opposite order (i.e. make the meeting on the phone and invite my work ID) but that is inconvenient for a set of reasons. The central question is why the calendar app does not import ICS data? :confused:

Frank
 
I think that it's not actually the calendar app on the G2/G3 that is processing the .ics, but rather, gmail servers (google calendar) are processing the invite and putting into your calendar, and then in turn the calendar syncs to the G2/G3.

So in my case, I am not inviting my "home-ID", but rather, my gmail-ID, if you will. My home-ID email address is my ISP POP3, which does not support a calendar directly (yes, if I pull down the mail with Outlook, it will then import into the calendar but if I don't open Outlook for a week, then my calendar will never get updated). If you get gmail to poll your POP3 (I'm assuming your home-ID is POP3 here), then gmail should be able to process your calendar invites and sync them to your phone.*

* the last sentence above I'm not sure about (sounds good on paper), BUT if you instead directly invite your gmail address (one that is set up on your G3) as a TEST from work, it should work and come down to your phone. No need to try to open the .ICS.
 
Thank you for the response Klotar. It is the calendar app processing the ICS file because gmail is not seeing it; I don't use google for mail, just for the calendar. On my NOTE 2 I'd tap the ICS file in K9 mail app, select the calendar app to process it, and then it would get posted. On the LG, calendar is not listed as an app that can handle the ICS file. Why can Samsung speak ICS but not LG?

From playing with it, the LG calendar app can process VCS but i don't think that's a solution for my situation.
 
This free app from the Play Store might be a work-around:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdac.icsparser

From the description it sounds promising.

EDIT: read some of the comments, seems to work but people are complaining about dates (probably does not read time zones correctly). However, there seem to be a lot of ics importers in the play store so one of them should work.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sascha.MeetingImporteer

The above one seems to get the time zone right but doesn't send responses to the organizer (from a couple comments).

You may have to search around a bit in the Play Store but I'd guess that one of them should do what you need, even if not perfect.
 
Klotar - you are a scholar. I will investigate these apps. I like how some of the comments on them say "works well, just gets the date / timezone / hour ." I would think that means it doesn't work well! :rolleyes:

Anyway, seems pretty clear base Android calendar doesn't support importing ICS appointments and LG didn't add that to their calendar.

Thanks very much.
Frank
 
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