1Detlev Poettgen  14.09.2009 18:46:42  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Daniel, you are a genius...

Great, thank you

2Dietmar Dumke  23.09.2009 21:37:19  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Nice idea.

Btw. just another more reason (for IBM/Lotus) to finally move the Contacts from local names.nsf to the mail file (and then leave them there forever). Would it make much easier to do your approach simply through mail template customization. Until IBM/Lotus does that, one could (since R8.5) use the Contacts Sync on the Replicator page to have the contacts available in the mail file. Often the Contacts Sync already is enabled, just to sync personal contacts into the Blackberry via mail server, or for iNotes.

This way you only need to modify the server mail template which is a huge advantage compared to modify all the personal addressbooks locally on the clients.

3Mike Perrett  27.11.2009 15:41:33  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

I must try this out, I have historically used a scheduled local agent that ran every Friday morning.

This would cycle though local names.nsf looking for birthdays and/or anniversaries occuring in the next 3 weeks.

It would then put that information into an email and send it to me, that way I'd always get a 3 week countdown to birthdays.

Only problem with this is remembering to copy the agent into successive versions of the database.

I'm with you Dietmar, the names.nsf should be reduced to a configuration only database allowing full portability of all personal data via the mail file, it would be far more flexible.

With mobile solutions like Traveler and BES synching between themselves and the mail file, there is no reason for the extra hop to expose data at the client.

4Wolfgang Frey  03.12.2009 13:34:45  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Hello Daniel,

thanks for sharing this tip.

Using this approach works fine, however I encountered the following problem a person whose birthday is on January 12th is actually displayed on December 1st. - so it seems day and month is somehow mixed up.

Interestingly other birthdays where the day is beyond 12 like Nov 13th is shown correctly.

Any hint or tip on how this can be fixed?

with friendly regards

Wolfgang

5Gerrit Schut  19.02.2010 7:26:03  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

To make the view work properly for me, I've changed the selection formula a little bit:

from: Birthday != ""

to: @Text( Birthday ) != ""

As the Birthday field is suppose to be date field. After that, only the contacts with a real birthday in that field where showing the view (as it was intended)

6Fabian  19.05.2011 9:52:17  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Hm, I copied the view and can see the documents in the Designer. But if I add it to my calendar, it displays nothing. Seems like it doesn't work with Notes 8.5.2 :-(

Any tips for me?

Thank you

Fabian

7Jeremy Brazill  07.06.2011 15:26:26  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

I'm having the same problem as Fabian. Also running 8.5.2!

Any ideas?

Thanks

Jeremy

8Thomas Guhl  20.01.2012 8:16:40  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Great idea,

but I have still a small problem. When I have a contact with birthday for example 03.11. it is shown correctly in the Lotus Notes calendar. But in the iPhone calendar it is 02.11.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Thomas

9Frieder Meidert  02.02.2012 2:41:17  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

I am very sorry, but I still have a problem to create a proper view out of my names.nsf. Could anyone send a short explanation how to design this view?

Many thanks in advance for all your efforts!

10Christian Barthen  06.02.2012 16:26:43  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

I am facing the same issue - after chossing names.nsf I am not able to select a calendar view. Using Notes 8.5.3

Would be great to get an idea how to solve it...

Thanks

Christian

11Philson  15.03.2012 17:00:27  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Sounds great, but i'm also struggling with

"You can simply add the view into your pernames.ntf or names.nsf".

Could someone please explain this step.

Thanks and kind regards

12Cornelius  23.08.2012 8:01:17  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Does ist work with Release 8.5.1 FP4

Please give me a info

13Michael Voss  22.05.2013 13:17:07  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Great,

I have Notes 8.5.3 FP4. But it was necessary to open the database nshPernamesBirthdayView.nsf from link above in Domino Designer and copy the view ($nshBirthdayView) into your views in your own names.nsf.

14Philipp Reckow  18.09.2013 15:13:13  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Works great, nice feature, thanks a lot for this!

15Viktor Dexheimer  10.02.2017 10:50:58  Birthday Calendar via Federated Calendars

Vielen Dank! Genial, passt perfekt!!!

16Ulf Duvigneau  27.04.2022 9:48:39  Kontakt Geburtstage als Federated Calendar

Moin Daniel,

auch 13 Jahre später in Notes 12.01 immer noch cool!

Hier wäre eine ähnliche Fuktion zum Voten:

https://domino-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/NTS-I-1053

LG Dein Ulf