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  delay synchronisation after boot
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  @tusch001 It’s not a perfect solution, but at least it’s working as intended. Thanks for the update!
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  option to export settings (including accounts without passwords)
  enhancement • • tusch001  

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  I’m often wiping phones for testing purposes. One of the first apps I install afterwards is davdroid (DAVx5 ). Having multiple accounts I would like to have the possibility to export / import not only the accounts but also all the individual calendars, address books and task lists (> 10!). If possible even saved if they are marked for synchronisation (I keep some address books only for backup). For security reasons without passwords or only when hashed properly. Just a thought. Thanks
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  Improve error messages
  • a_user  

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  Steps to reproduce: Set up a Caldav calendar (mailbox.org here). With DAVx5 connect to this calendar. Cause an sync error. In this case deleting a recurrent birthday reminder caused an error 403 (Forbidden) from the server. Current behaviour: DAVx5 writes a log file with technical error information (e. g. HTTP request and response, technical device information, Java stacktrace). The information might help the developer, but it doesn’t help a non-tech user at all. The information about the failure appears as a tiny icon in the status bar only, where it can easily be overlooked. Expected behaviour: DAVx5 informs the user in a visible message, in understandable, non-tech words that it could not synchronize, which item is affected (the displayed name of the contact, date or task), what caused the error, how he/she can solve the problem and go on. For instance see https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-application-design-mistakes/, chapter 3. If the log file is needed for the developer, DAVx5 helps the end-user with easy-to-follow steps to send it to the developer.
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  Continue syncing calendar after failure
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  Steps to reproduce: Set up a Caldav calendar (mailbox.org here). With DAVx5 connect to this calendar. Cause an syncing error. In this case deleting a recurrent birthday reminder caused an error 403 (Forbidden) from the server. Expected behaviour: DAVx5 continues with the next sync item, trying to sync as many items as possible. DAVx5 informs the user about all failed items. Actual behaviour: DAVx5 stops the sync. Many other sync items are not synced because one single failure.
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  [Feature Request] Changing URL
  duplicate • • Lucas van L  

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  Duplicate of https://forums.bitfire.at/post/6487, please follow up there
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  [Feature Request] Theme
  enhancement • • userx404  

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  A dark and/or black theme would be nice.
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  davx5 2.5 feedback
  • mbiebl  

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  Thanks for your feedback, however we knew that this one would pop up (it’s obvious) The reason behind the change of the UI was that were facing a lot of different use cases lately: from users with only a few resources to users with a huge number of calendars and address books. Big lists were not performing well and sometimes it was impossible to scroll through a big list and selections were very laggy. Therefore we needed a more performant way with the newly introduced RecyclerView (together with the also newly introduced Room database this is very useful) which can only be used in a separate tab for full performance (it needs to handle scrolling and can’t be nested within another scrollable container). Also imagine someone having a large number of address books (it already happens with 6 or more address books). People needed to scroll down very long or some people didn’t even know that there was a second section for CalDAV calendars and WebCal (they didn’t see it and didn’t know it was there). The titles did not change anyway - it was named CalDAV and CardDAV in earlier versions. We will maybe also use the additional space for more information in a second line under the title of a resource. I hope that clarifies some of our decisions!
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  DAVx⁵ 2.5 UI feedback: Refreshing with button vs pulling down
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  I do find the current setup suboptimal. Imho, DAVx5 should refresh the collections list more intelligently. E.g. when opening the account settings, such a refresh should be done automatically for an account. And I do find the distinction between “refresh collection list” and “sync all contacts and calender events” not obvious. I.e. why should pulling down do the former and tapping the lower right action button do the latter.
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  [Feature Request] Allow to get Address and Credentials from qrCode
  enhancement • • Mannshoch  

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  Thanks for the hint, I’ve added it to the roadmap for DAVx⁵: https://gitlab.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose/wikis/Roadmap As you can see, there are a lot of possible enhancements, so maybe this will take while…
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  Display an icon for transparent calendars
  enhancement • • Дилян Палаузов  

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  The use case is to understand why adding an event to a calendar does not impact the freebusy calculations for the calendar owner. This means the user shall be able to see, that the busy status is ignored for events on the calendar. Adding this in the property window is perfectly fine.
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  Tweaking the generated ORGANIZER
  enhancement • • Дилян Палаузов  

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  When the account name is different from the user name for authentication, ask the user, whether the email for authenticarion shall be inserted as ORGANIZER;SENT-BY=… When the CN after ORGANIZER or ATTENDEE is the same as the mailto: address, do not insert CN. This has no added valie and just increases the traffic. Obtain from the user its name and use it as CN for the ORGANIZER, or get the name from the principal-url (if not already done), perhaps as its displayname. The CN is used layer by rhe server ro send emails and it appears as display-name. So with proper CN the email will lool nicer.
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  Allow to define a time windows for synchronization
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  Hello. This is a function that I thought would be a good idea as well. The reason for me is different. I have a Synology servers that is used to store all my contacts and events. It would be nice to stop my tablet or phone from waking it up several times in the middle of the night, just to check that no changes have occurred. May be also to have an option on whether to force a sync when DAVx5 “wakes up”; or default it to do it. I think this would complement the existing function, which allows DAVx5 to only sync when connect to a defined WiFi network. Many Thanks
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  Some basic features I'm waiting for a few yeras
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  Thanks for your reply. In fact, since a couple of months I moved to Caldav sync even on my business calendars because of the issue known with Google calendar sync I mentioned and that sadly seems hard to recognise and fix by Google despite hundreds of reports since November. Outlook Caldav Synchronizer for desktop works perfectly to keep the sync between my server, outlook and even google account which is configured in one way sync only, server -> outlook. Android Caldav currently is in fact too much limited in options compared to the Outlook Caldav Synchronizer I needed the Android --> google one way sync, but your app doesn’t support the new OAuth 2.0 neither the local to server only sync. The alternative commercial Android app and the open source Outlook Caldav Synchronizer do both support OAuth 2.0 export/import accounts config is helpful when you have many accounts set up and you change phone or use 2 or three devices Synker won’t help because when triggering sync from Android Settings / Accounts, even if it shows that Caldav did sync, it won’t in fact. On my 3 devices, Galaxy S7, Galaxy Note 4 and Xiaomi Mi A1 with Android stock this is true. I have to go into Caldav and start manual sync from the app. With many accounts, this is a bit cumbersome. logging could be optional at least when someone is testing if everything goes fine (number of items modified, deleted…), but I could live without it sync on local events change: I could live with it if manual sync from app would have been quicker for many accounts instead of having to go through each account Hope you don’t take it wrong. I could buy the alternative commercial app. I just wanted to give my feedback here before doing so. I used your app since a few years and I do trust it as it never failed me. For one account it was fine. For +5 accounts and a complex sync scheme ( Google <-- Android <–> Server), it is limiting. So yes, maybe my needs cannot be filled with an app targeting only users with simple needs. I am still reluctant to change, not because of paying, but only because I can’t afford right now the time to set up everything again and go through a long test period to ensure the new app is as reliable as yours. Losing data and events being not an option in my case. Anyway, I hope you make your mind on these suggestions. Thanks for your great work and best regards
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  Add option to disable synchronization of contact photos (and notes)
  enhancement • • rauferd  

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  Thank you for your suggestion and insights – we will discuss this!
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  Account settings should display the URL
  enhancement • • jondo  

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  You know that you can lookup the url of a ressource by opening the 3-dots menu behind e.g. a calendar and choosing properties? That’s not exactly what you asking for but a workaround. I would assume that the base url is usually the part in front of the user name.
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  Add a tasker capability to manually trigger / change sync settings
  enhancement • • arnschi  

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  I have requested a sync action for Tasker here: https://tasker.helprace.com/i420-sync-system-account-s
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  Please change the name to DAVx5 !!!
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  Hello! Thanks for the suggestion, but we have thought about the name intensively and we like it and we don’t want to change it a second time within 2 months. For the pronounciation of DAVx⁵, see: https://www.davx5.com/faq/what-does-davx5-stand-for I have problems with programs that render incorrectly (draw a “square”) or incorrectly handle this character. Which are those programs? Seems there’s a problem with Unicode rendering there. Maybe you can improve them by sending a bug report.
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  Please add support for DEATHDATE
  enhancement • • returntrip  

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  Although there is not that single solution for all occurancies, most of the systems are able to handle custom fields. This should allow to add such a field to DAVx5 too. I think it would always be better to cover at least 70-80% of the systems instead of 0 %. I just had a look on it and checked how other systems are handling a death day field. Here are my findings: Nextcloud 15.0.2/Contacts 3.0.3 and ownCloud 10.0.10/Contacts 1.5.5 both handle the custom field Todestag in this way: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.1.6//EN UID:2ba8a291-5cc9-4865-a9c4-4d053a0ab080 FN:Dean Death BDAY:19500101T000015 DEATHDATE:20181231T000000 END:VCARD Android 8.0 contact sync’ed using the ContactSync app shows the custom field Todestag correctly: Thunderbird 60.5.0/Cardbook add-on 33.9 shows the custom field label Todestag correctly: IOS 12.1 is also able to handle custom labels although the vcf syntax differs a bit: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iPhone OS 12.1//EN N:Dean Death;;;; FN: Dean Death BDAY:1980-01-01 item1.X-ABDATE;type=pref:2000-04-30 item1.X-ABLabel:Todestag END:VCARD
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  Add a checkbox dialog for the list of wifi networks to sync with
  enhancement • • j-ed  

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  Enhancement request: Currently you have to enter the wifi network names you want to automatically use to sync with, manually. It would be nice to provide a checkbox dialog with all available networks to minimize the possibility of typos.
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  switch for synchronisation of contacts or calendar only
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  @rfc2822 I granted permissions to access contacts on my phone and the carddav option shows the url to the caldav server (without a possibility to change the url to my carddav server - which would be nice for my private account) So thanks for the calming explanations