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Known Issue: When switching
an Outlook recurring event to a non-recurring event
the Google event does not reflect this change. This
is a Google calendar defect.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Known Issue: Event collision
detection does not work on recurring event exceptions.
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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.
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Known Issue: Users have
expressed issues with the speed of the contact sync
process.
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Known Issue: Users has reported
that closing Outlook in the middle of a sync will causing
Outlook to crash. (unconfirmed issue).
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Known Issue: gSyncit does
not properly sync the correct organizer of the event
when creating a new Google recurring event with participants.
This is because Google calendar does not allow for the
creating of recurring events where the "owner" or "organizer"
is someone besides the creator of the actual event.
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Known Issue: When syncing
participants to Outlook from a secondary Google calendar
the even owner appears as (random characters)@groups.google.com
rather than the email address of the organizer of the
event.
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Feature Request:
User has requested showing the last sync date/time
on the gSyncit tray app.
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Feature Request:
User has requested an option to allow the event
location to sync when syncing private event details.
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Feature Request: User has
requested the ability control how Outlook phone numbers
are mapped to Gmail contact phone numbers. The scenario
needed is being able to match the Outlook Radio phone
number with the Gmail phone number "PTT1_Primary"
so that the Motorola i1 can be synced with Outlook contacts
through Gmail contacts.
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Feature Request: User has
requested a way to show the status (completed/in-progress)
on events/tasks synced with Google. (e.g. "[Completed]
My Task" or "[C] [Task] My Tasks")
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Feature Request: User has
requested a better way to note that a task in the Google
calendar is completed.
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Feature Request: User has
requested an option to sync the Google event start date
with the Outlook task Due Date _and_ Start Date.
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Feature Request: User has
requested an option to allow for confirming all updates
to a calendar.
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Feature Request: Users have
requested the ability to not sync and/or remove completed
tasks.
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Feature Request: Users have
requested the ability to extend the contact matching
of contacts between Gmail and outlook to include the
phone number. This allows for matching contacts with
the same name, no email, and different phone numbers.
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Feature Request: User
has requested the ability to sync Outlook tasks with
Google calendar where the Google event automatically
is moved to the current date each day to reflect the
"no due date" state of the Outlook task.
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Feature Request: Users have
requested the ability to perform a global username/password
change for Google account information to avoid having
to open each gSyncit mapping to change this information.
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Feature Request: The ability
to sync multiple Google accounts without requiring Outlook
to be loaded. This overlaps with a sever version of
gSyncit that connects with Exchange Server.
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Feature Request: Users have
requested that gSyncit appear on the Outlook 2010 Ribbon
as a new tab vs. under the add-ins tab so that it can
be added to the quick access bar.
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Feature Request: Users have
requested the ability to sync Outlook notes with the
Gmail notes group so that notes will appear on the iPhone
which syncs notes to this group vs. Google documents.
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Feature Request: User has
requested the ability to show the event organizer in
the description of the event when creating recurring
events in the Google calendar that are originally organized
by another user and the event was created outside of
Google calendar.
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Feature Request: User has
requested the ability to sync task priority as part
of the Google event subject and/or location to make
it easier to sort/list/search tasks based on priority.
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Feature Request: User has
requested the ability to set a threshold to determine
when the delete confirmation dialog should appear. If
the threshold is 5 then the delete confirmation dialog
would only appear when 5 or mote items are being deleted.
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Feature Request: User has
requested the ability to automatically delete Google
tasks (calendar events) that are marked as complete
such that Google maintains a list of active/open tasks
only.
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Feature Request: User has
requested the ability to set a default reminder time
for calendar events using gSyncit 'default' options
rather than the native Google/Outlook options.
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Feature Request: Show a
sync summary at the end of the sync process showing
all items updated/deleted/inserted for each sync operation.
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Feature Request: Ability
to sync Outlook items that contain ALL specified categories
rather than one or more specified categories. In more
technical terms make the category matching based on
a configurable "OR" or "AND" operation.
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Feature Request: Users have
suggested enabling gSyncit to sync _individual_ items
immediately after they are changed in Outlook rather
than having to sync all items.
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Feature Request: Users have
suggested providing a wizard like interface for initially
configuring gSyncit.
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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.
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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 not have to sync
all mappings.
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Feature Request: User has
requested that the sync process clearly indicate that
is deleting a duplicate event vs. a non-duplicated event.
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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.
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Feature Request: The ability
to select which days to perform automatic syncing.
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Feature Request: The ability
to switch the windows time zone and have Outlook recurring
events sync to Google calendar with the proper times.
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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.
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Feature Request: The ability
to filter out calendar events from the calendar sync
that are birthdays for Outlook contacts.
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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.
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Feature Request: Have gSyncit
automatically download the latest version of gSyncit
and then prompt the user to install the update. Additionally,
users would also like gSyncit to silently install the
latest version if possible.
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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.
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Feature Request: The ability
to set separate sync intervals for calendar and contact
sync.
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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.
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Feature Request: Ability
to show "Busy" or "Free" in the subject when syncing
free/busy information.
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Feature Request: Users have
requested that the gSyncit tray icon indicate that the
sync process is running.
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Feature Request: Users have
requested a way to sync between two Google contact accounts
without having to use Outlook.
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Feature Request:
command-line options to gSyncit to invoke the sync
process from the command-line.
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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.
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Feature Request: Ability
to sync a contact folder and subfolders in Outlook with
Gmail contacts.
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Feature Request: Ability
to run gSyncit from a USB memory stick to get around
corporate security policies that do not allow installing
software.
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Feature Request: Ability
to sync Outlook distribution lists with Gmail groups.
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Feature Request: Show a
percent completed during the sync process.
