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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
handle syncing events in the Google calendar that occur in
time zones outside the Google calendar default time zone.
This is mainly related to a Google calendar limitation that
does not allow for events in different time zones.
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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: 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.
