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phw198 / OutlookGoogleCalendarSync

Sync your Outlook and Google calendars
https://www.outlookgooglecalendarsync.com/
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Feature Request: Filter Expressions #334

Closed edgepacket closed 1 year ago

edgepacket commented 7 years ago

If word "canceled" is in meeting name dont sync.

If phone number "4048" is in meeting notes change number to "+14045554048,,,9982706#"

This would be a massive plus. I would donate some bucks to help implement this.

phw198 commented 7 years ago

Interesting request. I think the option to not sync cancelled meetings and/or only sync accepted meetings has already been raised and is being considered. However the more complicated options I think would just confuse most users - just the categories include/exclude option befuddles some!

A compromise might be for you to use vba script in Outlook to set a category if certain words are present, then set OGCS to exclude sync of that category?

edgepacket commented 7 years ago

I don't think VBA would be the way to go due to security concerns. Probably would not be widely deployed.

I think the feature would be relatively easy to implement and would be widely accepted and adopted.

Essentially you would implement a simple rules engine that allows a user to add/modify/delete on synchronization action.

Nothing overly complex but would be a massive help to mobile users wanting to tame their calendar.

If $field contains x then do actio

Nothing extravagant. Just simple actions like skip/delete/change text

Could be a simple panel on the control widget entitled rules.

Regards, Matthew

phw198 commented 7 years ago

I think you misunderstood my VBA suggestion - for you to personally use Outlook VBA to automatically set categories that OGCS then uses to includes/excludes for sync. So no, this would not be widely deployed as you'd be the only one with the VBA code, specific to your needs.

This wouldn't of course handle the transposing of phone numbers etc you suggested, but I disagree this would be widely adopted so am very unlikely to implement it. Happy to leave the ticket open for people to vote-up if they want to see it though :slightly_smiling_face: