Calendar Options on BB w/BES

[gadgetfreak2]

I gave up on Palm after seeing that the new Pre will not be the device for me. So here I am testing a BB Curve with Sprint after using Treo 755p with Chatter, Datebk and 2day for a very long time and loving everything except for the instability and lack of GPS.

My main concern is viewing multiple calendars. I use(d) pcoketfolder from Chapura to copy my business partner's calendar into my exchange calendar and all of his events were then in a certain category. I could then use Datebk to filter so I would usually only see my events but could see his when needed.

BB doesn't support categories for events. I tried to do something with Google Calendar but I am not sure that will work either. Pocket Informant didn't filter by categories either. Does anyone have any good ideas to make this work?

[kennesh12]

This is a very good question, I am currently trying to figure this out between I and my assistant. If you have any suggestions please let me know!

[pco]

your post sounded so much like me .. i too just got a curve.. and am trying to figure out things.. i wish i had an answer for you i do not. i do have a question seeing as you are a palm user like myself. i am hoping you might know this... here is my post for another forum. many thanks for your help.

can you tell me if my bb curve 8330 has this feature... can i create appointments from my contact/address book lists? i make a huge amount of appts each day and am hoping i dont have to type each and every name in there. i am aware i can use recurring feature for repeat appts. i am referring to non recurring appts. i hope this makes sense.

i am a former palm user..this is my first blackberry straight out of the box. with palm i could go to my calendar click on the top portion of the screen where it said phone contacts and it would bring me to my phone contact directory. from there i could highlight a specific contact and it would be entered in my appt book.

[mastermoe4]

My biggest issue with the BB calendar is that there are no categories!

I think this is such a huge oversight and the only reason I still carry my palm with me. If there are any developers reading this right now...good way to make a **** load of money is create a calendar with categories and have it able to pull up info from contacts... I as well as A LOT of others would pay bit $$$ to have something like that.

[gadgetfreak2]

Originally Posted by pco

your post sounded so much like me .. i too just got a curve.. and am trying to figure out things.. i wish i had an answer for you i do not. i do have a question seeing as you are a palm user like myself. i am hoping you might know this... here is my post for another forum. many thanks for your help.

can you tell me if my bb curve 8330 has this feature... can i create appointments from my contact/address book lists? i make a huge amount of appts each day and am hoping i dont have to type each and every name in there. i am aware i can use recurring feature for repeat appts. i am referring to non recurring appts. i hope this makes sense.

i am a former palm user..this is my first blackberry straight out of the box. with palm i could go to my calendar click on the top portion of the screen where it said phone contacts and it would bring me to my phone contact directory. from there i could highlight a specific contact and it would be entered in my appt book.

I do not see that this is an option. However, I remember seeing a program that integrates all the different PIM programs on the BB and may allow for this. However, I cannot remember what it is called now. Sorry.

[gadgetfreak2]

Originally Posted by mastermoe4

My biggest issue with the BB calendar is that there are no categories!

I think this is such a huge oversight and the only reason I still carry my palm with me. If there are any developers reading this right now...good way to make a **** load of money is create a calendar with categories and have it able to pull up info from contacts... I as well as A LOT of others would pay bit $$$ to have something like that.

I totally agree. Once calendars have categories (that can be filtered), a whole new world of viewing options can be tapped. I miss this the most from my Treo 755p.

[slevinator]

I totally agree. I just switched from a Centro and I so miss my categories. I downloaded Pocket informant as I saw numerous posts saying it had color capabilities - and it DOES! the only problem is that I can't get it to be my main calendar. Outlook still syncs with BB calendar and BB calendar still shows up in the Agenda view. If anyoe knows how to fix this I would love to know. It also does all of the calendar, tasks, etc by category.