Show age in birthday event title

[dschuermann]

Original author: hellm...@mitbiz.de (July 07, 2012 16:20:50)

A feature request for something that I assumed to be a standard feature for a birthday adapter: It would be really great to include the age of the person in the name of the calendar event.

This probably goes hand-in-hand with the feature request to customize the event names. http://code.google.com/p/birthday-adapter/issues/detail?id=12

So for me an ideal formatting would be (in German): Geb. <FirstName> <LastName> (<Age>)

and in case there isn't a year defined with the birthday Geb. <FirstName> <LastName>

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/birthday-adapter/issues/detail?id=15

[dschuermann]

From domschuermann@gmail.com on July 07, 2012 17:13:24 The problem with this is, that when I include the age I can't make the birthday event recurring yearly, because the age changes every year.

At the moment I have no nice solution for that. I could for example generate birthday events for the next 5 years in the users calendar and hope that the users don't scroll to the 6th year, because it will have no birthday events. So thats not nice and it would double the sync time by nearly 5.

[dschuermann]

From hellm...@mitbiz.de on July 07, 2012 17:40:29 Yes, I am aware of this. I think syncing maximum 2 years ahead would be absolutely fine (this could be configured in the Birthday Adapter App). Especially when you auto-sync daily anyway there isn't much of a drawback but mainly the advantage of knowing how old someone turns :-)

[dschuermann]

From domschuermann@gmail.com on July 07, 2012 18:28:31 Hmm I think you are right. When I got time I will implement this

[dschuermann]

From hellm...@mitbiz.de on July 07, 2012 18:33:10 Great - looking forward to it :-)