FM calendar & Windows phone

[Clive T]

Some advice please.

I've just got a 8.1 Windows phone but I've got two issues with the FM calendar.

1. Mail and contacts display and work perfectly via IE or any of the other available browsers but the calendar goes into a fast scroll if it's touched, crashing the browser every time.

2. Plan B is to link my FM calendar with my outlook.com account but for the life of me I can't get outlook.com to accept the link. I'm getting various messages about the calendar not being shared but, as far as I can see, the options are set properly in FM and outlook.com.

Any ideas welcome.

[Berenburger]

Originally Posted by Clive T

2. Plan B is to link my FM calendar with my outlook.com account but for the life of me I can't get outlook.com to accept the link. I'm getting various messages about the calendar not being shared but, as far as I can see, the options are set properly in FM and outlook.com.

I've successfully 'synced' my WP7.8 according post.

BTW, I'm in a trial with mailbox.org at the moment. They support active-sync out-of-the-box.

[Clive T]

Originally Posted by Berenburger

I've successfully 'synced' my WP7.8 according post.

BTW, I'm in a trial with mailbox.org at the moment. They support active-sync out-of-the-box.

FM doesn't support activesync. I've a PolarisMail account that does but I don't necessarily want to forward FM mail to that just for the sake of setting up a calendar.

Thanks anyway.

[sflorack]

Originally Posted by Clive T

2. Plan B is to link my FM calendar with my outlook.com account but for the life of me I can't get outlook.com to accept the link. I'm getting various messages about the calendar not being shared but, as far as I can see, the options are set properly in FM and outlook.com.

I can get this to work, but keep in mind that it will be read-only.

For the FM calendar you want to share with Outlook, ensure that "Full Event Details" is checked. The link that you want to subscribe to should be " https://user.fm/calendar/<bunch of characters>/Default.ics" and NOT the one with your username present.

[Clive T]

Originally Posted by sflorack

I can get this to work, but keep in mind that it will be read-only.

For the FM calendar you want to share with Outlook,..

After fiddling about I cracked it. For some reason the URL that FM presented was different when I pushed the edit/display button to that of the URL shown when I selected the "caldav URL" link!

Many thanks for your input.

[FredOnline]

Originally Posted by Clive T

Some advice please.

I've just got a 8.1 Windows phone but I've got two issues with the FM calendar.

1. Mail and contacts display and work perfectly via IE or any of the other available browsers but the calendar goes into a fast scroll if it's touched, crashing the browser every time.

2. Plan B is to link my FM calendar with my outlook.com account but for the life of me I can't get outlook.com to accept the link. I'm getting various messages about the calendar not being shared but, as far as I can see, the options are set properly in FM and outlook.com.

Any ideas welcome.

I've been experimenting with this on my Windows 8.1 phone - I'm also getting this continuous fast scroll on the calendar that I can only stop by closing down the window.

I've set up a FM calendar with my outlook.com account, but any new events take YEARS (yes, I'm exaggerating!) to sync with the phone.

I can't find any other way to sync a FM caldav on the Windows 8.1 phone.

Any ideas, anyone?

[cptlo306]

Originally Posted by FredOnline

I've been experimenting with this on my Windows 8.1 phone - I'm also getting this continuous fast scroll on the calendar that I can only stop by closing down the window.

I've set up a FM calendar with my outlook.com account, but any new events take YEARS (yes, I'm exaggerating!) to sync with the phone.

I can't find any other way to sync a FM caldav on the Windows 8.1 phone.

Any ideas, anyone?

At one point I had a Google calendar added to FM and then added the Google calendar to my phone. That was the only calendar I used within FM webmail. It pretty much worked but syncing was sometimes slow (30 minutes).

It would be nice if Microsoft would add true caldav support to Windows Phone. It would also be nice if FM would add Activesync or partner with NuevaSync. It doesn't look like either of those will be happening.

[Berenburger]

Originally Posted by FredOnline

I've set up a FM calendar with my outlook.com account, but any new events take YEARS (yes, I'm exaggerating!) to sync with the phone

Updating can take more than 24 hours.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...t-vs-subscribe

[steventay]

Originally Posted by Berenburger

I've successfully 'synced' my WP7.8 according post.

BTW, I'm in a trial with mailbox.org at the moment. They support active-sync out-of-the-box.

Just try mailbox, woh very power

Activesync out of the box and file sync apps on IOS and android.

Mail calender contact task notes files sync all available