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Could Sandy add a VTODO option for "to do" tags?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalenda....28VTODO.29

The VTODO component describes a to-do item, i.e., an action-item or assignment.

The following is an example of a to-do due on April 15, 1998, from RFC 2445 or RFC2445 Syntax Reference. An audio alarm has been specified to remind the calendar user at noon, the day before the to-do is expected to be completed and repeat hourly, four additional times. The to-do definition has been modified twice since it was initially created.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//ABC Corporation//NONSGML My Product//EN
BEGIN:VTODO
DTSTAMP:19980130T134500Z
SEQUENCE:2
UID:uid4@host1.com
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:unclesam@us.gov
ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED:MAILTO:jqpublic@host.com
DUE:19980415T235959
STATUS:NEEDS-ACTION
SUMMARY:Submit Income Taxes
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:AUDIO
TRIGGER:19980403T120000
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=audio/basic:http://host.com/pub/audio-
files/ssbanner.aud
REPEAT:4
DURATION:PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VTODO
END:VCALENDAR

I am finding that this fix works for a short time, but then as you make changes to Sandy's info, problems develop. Within a day or two of subscribing, I start to get this error: Request encountered an unexpected error on subscribed calendars (code 4). The only way to fix it is to delete the calendar and resubscribe. Your thoughts?

Thank you for sharing. I have never known anyone who has not liked cupcakes so I guess its not such a bad thing to be afterall

We're all cupcakes unless we go in and change icons. It's just the way Get Satisfaction is set up.

By the way can anyone share with me why in the world I am a cupcake--not that I have anything against cupcakes--but I never really thought of myself as one.

How funny. When Sandy e-mails me she is MY Sandy. I'm not thinking about her as your Sandy at all. I like to think of her as a real person with her own name,and life who choose's to work just for fascinating me!

Well, Katybeth, the way you put it it implies that there's only one (1) Sandy taking care of all of us here. Well, I like to think that there are as many Sandy assistants as there are "I want Sandy" users, sooo.... I prefer to think that my Sandy is MY Sandy only and nobody's else, ok?! :] And that's why I want to give her a nickname ;)

If you were hiring a virtual assistant would you ask her to change her name to suit you? Let Sandy have her own identy for goodness sake.

Howdy folks,

I borrowed some free time from my sleep piggy bank and challenged iCal to a duel this evening! (Ok, so I twiddled some settings.)

And I have what I believe is a fix for iCal for Leopard's general unruliness when it comes to subscribed iCalendars. I've written it all up at http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy... .

Please do let me know how you get on; a couple of folks with corroborating results and I'll post more widely in the hopes of helping folks who are running into this across services.

—Rael

Hi Bob,

Just to be clear: we don't put to-dos on your calendar unless they're actually scheduled for a particular date/time. Otherwise, they hang out in the to-do bungalow off to the side along with the other to-dos.

—R

Is there any more news on this Rael?

Please let ToDos show up in iCal, because this is the only way I can sync it to my smartphone. Without this capability Sandy is fired! :)

I want a custom name too. It would feel even less like a Robot.