Customize reminder type for automatically generated birthday events

[gbmaster]

Is it possible to add a way to customize the reminders (or, as I'd like to, totally disable them) for the birthday events automatically generated from the contacts?

[tcitworld]

That's a core issue but I guess we better keep this opened for discussion.

[georgehrke]

@gbmaster Please link the server issue after creating it

[gbmaster]

As requested, nextcloud/server#1753

[gbmaster]

My ticket was closed, as it was a dup of nextcloud/server#1505

[georgehrke]

There will be a dropdown with the following options:

• None
• 9AM on day of birthday
• 1 day before (9AM)
• 2 days before (9AM)
• 1 week before (9AM)

Nonetheless this requires changes to the Nextcloud dav-server
Ergo this won't be implemented before Nc 12

[tcitworld]

Does having an <input type="datetime"> would add too much complexity ? How and where do you plan to have the dropdown anyway ?

[georgehrke]

It's supposed to go in the settings area, one setting for all birthdays.
<input type="datetime"> won't work, because you don't want to trigger all birthday reminders on the very same date (and time)

[georgehrke]

The options in the dropdown should cover almost every use case.
Is there an important one i was missing?

[tcitworld]

Hmm, I find 9AM a bit late. Also, I would like to have the 2 weeks before option.
And finally, why not checkboxes to have maybe multiple different valarms ?

[GuillaumeAmat]

Hi, is someone working on that issue?

[georgehrke]

@GuillaumeAmat Not at the moment. Do you want to take over? :)

[GuillaumeAmat]

I would love it but I don't have enough time right now...

[fredRos]

I would like to disable alarms altogether. My thunderbird client cannot update the reminder and I even can't dismiss them. Really annoying

[ggeorgg]

I have the same problem. I would like to have the reminders in thunderbird but if they are activated, I can't dismiss them because of the read-only propertie of the calendar.
@fredRos: You can right-click a calendar in thunderbird and disable the reminders

[fredRos]

Thanks @ggeorgg I didn't know that option. Have a contact birthday coming tomorrow. I'm looking forward to no reminder in Thunderbird

[cneukom]

I went with the discussions in nextcloud/server#1505 (option 2ii proposed here) and moved the birthday calendar settings to the server component. In the PR I created above, I consequently removed the option to toggle the birthday and instead adapted the link "personal availability settings" to "groupware settings" which includes both the availability settings, as well, as the birthday calendar settings.