Known / Recently Reported Issues

Below is a list of known issues and feature requests for gSyncit that may be addressed and/or added in a future version. These items are current as of the latest version of gSyncit.  

• Known Issue: gSyncit does not properly handle syncing recurring events in the Google calendar that occur in time zones outside the Google calendar default time zone.

• Known Issue: gSyncit does not sync Outlook event attendees contained within a distribution list. Outlook distribution lists should automatically be synced with a matching Gmail group. Gmail groups should also be allowed to sync as a distribution list in Outlook.

• Known Issue: When changing an email address for an Outlook contact that has been synced with Gmail then both the old and the new email address will appear in the Gmail contact. Deleting the email associated with the Outlook contact is also not properly reflected in the Gmail contact and the old email will remain in the Gmail contact. This issue is complicated by the fact that Outlook supports three addresses and Gmail supports more than three.

• Known Issue: gSyncit tray app keeps the Outlook process running when Outlook is closed. The gSyncit tray app should only open Outlook when performing an automatic or manual sync then close Outlook.

• Known Issue: Event collision detection does not work on recurring event exceptions. 

• Known Issue: When the windows time zone is changed without also changing the Google calendar time zone and updating the gSyncit calendar sync mapping then duplicate events with incorrect times can appear in the Outlook and Google calendars.

• Known Issue: Users have expressed issues with the speed of the contact sync process.

• Feature Request: Users have requested the ability to sync Outlook tasks based on the reminder date when applicable. If a Google event is not marked as all-day then it can sync to Outlook with reminder date/time matching the event start date/time. When updating the Google calendar the reminder date/time is used to set the event start/end date/time. In addition, users would like to be able set a default reminder time for such events.

• Feature Request: Users have requests the ability to use the working hours on an Outlook task to determine the duration of task in the Google calendar. Users would like to define a work day/week with a set of working hours per day. This information would be used to determine Google event/task durations. 

• Feature Request: User has requested the ability sync individual mappings and/or groups of mappings vs. all mappings. For example, users would like to be able to auto-sync calendars but occasionally sync a _specific_ contact list and now have to sync all mappings.

• Feature Request: User has requested the ability to reset/repair mapping groups vs. all mappings to avoid having to re-sync all information after using the sync repair feature.

• Feature Request: User has requested that the sync process clearly indicate that is deleting a duplicate event vs. a non-duplicated event.

• Feature Request: User has requested the ability to sync a single mapping vs. having to sync all data/mappings.

• Feature Request: User has requested the ability to enable/disable mappings from the main mapping listing panel and have to open each mapping and check the enabled option.

• Feature Request: User has requested the ability to configure proxy settings based on the active network. This allows for proxy settings to easily be adjusted when switching between a network with and without a proxy server.

• Feature Request: The ability to select which days to perform automatic syncing.

• Feature Request: The ability to switch the windows time zone and have Outlook recurring events sync to Google calendar with the proper times.

• Feature Request: The ability to only assign categories to items imported from the Google calendar rather than using categories as a filtering mechanism. This allows for imported items to be assigned to category while being able to push all items to the Google calendar without any category restrictions.

• Feature Request: The ability to filter out calendar events from the calendar sync that are birthdays for Outlook contacts.

• Feature Request: The ability to automatically detect when an Outlook item is changed and sync a single item rather than have to sync all items.

• Feature Request: The ability retain the highest quality photo images for contacts. Currently, when Google 96x96 images are updated into Outlook them Outlook will scale them to 72x72 which often degrades the quality of the original Outlook image.

• Feature Request: Have gSyncit automatically download the latest versions and then prompt the user to install the update. Additionally, users would also like gSyncit to silently install the latest versions if possible.

• Feature Request: Ability to sync Google task lists with Outlook tasks. Currently, gSyncit will sync Outlook tasks tasks with Google calendars. Syncing Outlook tasks with Google task lists is pending Google exposing an interface for third party developers to access this information. Once available this functionality will be added. Google is aware of the need for this interface.

• Feature Request: The ability to set separate sync intervals for calendar and contact sync.

• Feature Request: Option to sync only tentative events and/or show tentative events in the Google calendar as "{subject} - Tentative" since Google calendar does not support the concept of tentative.

• Feature Request: Ability to show "Busy" or "Free" in the subject when syncing free/busy information.

• Feature Request: Users have requested that the gSyncit tray icon indicate that the sync process is running.

• Feature Request: Users have requested a way to sync between two Google contact accounts without having to use Outlook.

• Feature Request: command-line options to gSyncit to invoke the sync process from the command-line.

• Feature Request: Enable the auto sync process to suppress any gSyncit error dialogs during the sync. If there is a connection issues then there are cases where a dialog is displayed when the option to continue on error is set to enabled.

• Feature Request: Ability to sync a contact folder and subfolders in Outlook with Gmail contacts.

• Feature Request: Ability to run gSyncit from a USB memory stick to get around corporate security policies that do not allow installing software.

• Feature Request: Ability to sync Outlook distribution lists with Gmail groups.

• Feature Request: Show a percent completed during the sync process.