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Not a big issue in this blog post but an important one. Maybe I can save you some valuable time if you ever look for such a function.
As you know I&#8217;m a heavy user of <a href="http://owncloud.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ownCloud</a> and you also might know that synchronisation is a big topic for me. And the third thing you should know that forgetting a good friend&#8217;s birthday really su&#8230; well, it&#8217;s no good style. This almost happened to me some days ago because I couldn&#8217;t check it on my Notebook with Thunderbird. My setup looks like this: All contacts (with birthday tags) in ownCloud, and these CardDAV address books are synced with my Android phone and Thunderbird/<a href="http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/frontends.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SOGo-Connector</a> on my notebook, as well as the CalDAV calendars with <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/lightning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lightning</a>.
As you know I’m a heavy user of <a href="http://owncloud.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ownCloud</a> and you also might know that synchronisation is a big topic for me. And the third thing you should know that forgetting a good friend’s birthday really su… well, it’s no good style. This almost happened to me some days ago because I couldn’t check it on my Notebook with Thunderbird. My setup looks like this: All contacts (with birthday tags) in ownCloud, and these CardDAV address books are synced with my Android phone and Thunderbird/<a href="http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/frontends.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SOGo-Connector</a> on my notebook, as well as the CalDAV calendars with <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/lightning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lightning</a>.
For Android there are <a href="https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=birthday&fdid=org.birthdayadapter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">several free software apps</a> which enable the inclusion of birthdays from your contacts into any calendar app. Some calendar apps even can do it theirselves. But for Thunderbird there are only some outdated add-ons. All of them don&#8217;t work with TB31 anymore and if you modify the install.rdf-file to make them run anyhow, they&#8217;re very buggy or just nonfunctional. And if you look in your ownCloud instance (where contacts&#8216; birthdays are visible in the calendar tab) for a downloadable/syncable calendar you&#8217;ll reach the same conclusion like me: There is none.
For Android there are <a href="https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=birthday&fdid=org.birthdayadapter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">several free software apps</a> which enable the inclusion of birthdays from your contacts into any calendar app. Some calendar apps even can do it theirselves. But for Thunderbird there are only some outdated add-ons. All of them don’t work with TB31 anymore and if you modify the install.rdf-file to make them run anyhow, they’re very buggy or just nonfunctional. And if you look in your ownCloud instance (where contacts‘ birthdays are visible in the calendar tab) for a downloadable/syncable calendar you’ll reach the same conclusion like me: There is none.
But there is!
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`http(s)://YOUR-OC-URL/remote.php/caldav/calendars/YOUR-USER/contact_birthdays`
And you know what? It works like a charm! No need for external add-ons or apps, no need for manual creation of birthday reminders, no need for apologising for (almost) missed birthdays. I just wonder why ownCloud hasn&#8217;t included this in either the webpanel or the documentation. It&#8217;s a well-working feature since at least one year, so why not including it officially? And if it&#8217;s a calendar technically, then it should also be possible to disable displaying the contacts&#8216; birthdays in the webpanel calendar app &#8211; a still non-existent &#8222;feature&#8220;.
And you know what? It works like a charm! No need for external add-ons or apps, no need for manual creation of birthday reminders, no need for apologising for (almost) missed birthdays. I just wonder why ownCloud hasn’t included this in either the webpanel or the documentation. It’s a well-working feature since at least one year, so why not including it officially? And if it’s a calendar technically, then it should also be possible to disable displaying the contacts‘ birthdays in the webpanel calendar app – a still non-existent „feature“.
So next time you have no excuse for forgetting a birthday &#8211; except for your ownCloud server&#8217;s outage ;)
So next time you have no excuse for forgetting a birthday – except for your ownCloud server’s outage ;)
[1]: https://github.com/owncloud/contacts/issues/67#issuecomment-30401668