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Hi John,

Weird behaviour differences with all day events.

1. Create an All Day Event (ADE for short - going to be a few of those here!) in FileMaker - that is same start and end date with no start/end times and it goes to iCal and Google perfectly

2. Create an ADE in iCal and in FileMaker I get the end date the day after the start date, when this gets to Google the event now covers 2 days.

3. Create an ADE in Google, this comes to FileMaker as again an event with the end date the day after the start date with no time and so when this goes to iCal we have a 2 day event.

4. If I then edit the event in Google to 1 day only nothing appears to change in FileMaker (the modification TS updates), but when iCal refreshes the event is now 2 days

What this means is that it is possible to gradually extend the duration of an ADE just by editing any part of it in iCal and Google Calendar!

Clearly this is because of the differences in the way that iCal and Google Calendars interpret events with no time, and possibly the zulu_ICAL_DATA that is generated/interpreted.

I am sure this is not the first time you have heard this, is this something we have to get round by some autoenter calcs in the start/end time fields (suggestions would be appreciated!) or is it something the servlet can sort out for us?

Thanks

Tim

Hey Tim, can you let me know which build of Zulu you're on?

Reason I ask is that while this IS an issue between Google, iCal and FMP: Zulu is managing the differences.

When I create an al day event in iCal it comes it to FMP with start and end date the same and shows up as an all day event (1 day long) in Google. Editing its description or dragging it to a different date in Google preserves this 1 day duration in both iCal and FMP.

Do you have auto-enters on your date fields?

Hi John,

Using zulu 1.2

There is an autoenter the the end date field, which is set to be the start date but not replacing existing.
I'll do some tests taking this out and see what happens
Thanks

Tim

Hi John,

Nope, an all day event in iCal comes into FileMaker with the end date the day after the start date.
Same with an all day event from Google Calendar.

FileMaker Server 11.0.2.217 running on 10.6.6.
Mac that iCal event was created on is also running 10.6.6 and timezone support is on for iCal.

Thanks

Tim

And you don't have the post-edit script doing anything? Hmmmm. That just isn't what I'm seeing here. Maybe we should do a screen sharing session Monday? I'll email you.

I hate those issues where I see different things from my clients!

Confirm no post-edit script changes.

Thanks John

OK. Let's schedule a screen share. I'll send you an email to set things up.

Update for anyone, problem has been identified with UK timezone and John expects to issue a fix next week

Great news, John sent me a new build 1.211 and it fixes the problem!