Calendar software

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#1

I'm asking this for a friend...

Is there any calendar software that will interface with LO or Open Office, much like MS Outlook works with MS Office?

#2

I don't believe so, but there is a free & open-source alternative to MS
Outlook called Thunderbird. It is an e-mail client made by the same people
who make the Firefox web browser and there is an addon available called
Lightning which adds on calendar & task support, giving you a full email
and cal / tasks support like you'd get in Outlook. I assume this is the
sort of thing you want, if not, don't hesitate to reply-all.

#3

I use Thunderbird with Lightning and Firefox here. It's in my sig. LOL

But, I'm getting increasingly frustrated with TB's HTML editor for email. I need to do some troubleshooting, and if it's the program as opposed to something munged in my profile, I'm going to start looking for a replacement.

#4

Mozilla use to have a project called Sunbird, which was the stand alone version of Lightning, but it was dripped. I may have a copy of it somewhere.

Still if you have Thunderbird, there is no reason why could could not download the Lightning add-on. I have it on my desktop.

There are free stand alone appointment calendars for the Windows environment, so there should be versions out there for your Mac OS X.

I use Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, with the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, plus LO 4.0.2.2.

#5

I too use Thunderbird and Lightning, Lightning syncs with my gmail calendar which syncs with my phone. So very useful and handles multiple calendars (mine, works, the families).

On my Mac I use Thunderbird and the standard Mac calendar program synced with my gmail calendars.

And yes, I would like improved html editing in Thunderbird, I don't find it mangles anything but it would be be nice to be able to "edit source html" so to speak when you want an easy tweak that ends up not so easy.

Steve

#6

Ken Springer wrote:

I'm asking this for a friend...

Is there any calendar software that will interface with LO or Open Office, much like MS Outlook works with MS Office?

I use Lightning with Thunderbird and Seamonkey. I sync it to Google Calendar, so that I can have the same calendar on my computers, smart phone and tablet.

#7

There are two add-on for TB that let you edit HTML in the compose window. Stationery, and Edit HTML. I used to have them installed, but don't anymore. I came to the conclusion the average user shouldn't need to do this.

#8

I rarely need to, but sometimes it would be quicker editing table properties or pasting html from another source.
Steve

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
"Evolution" is supposedly very much like "Outlook".  Evolution has Calendar and email as it's 2 main things.

Unfortunately most distros ship with such ancient versions of it that it's difficult to get help if you ever need it.  Hopefully you can get the most recent version upstream somewhere like you would get LibreOffice from the LibreOffice website sometimes. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

My friend uses Windows. :slight_smile: So Evolution is out.

#11

My thesis aims to create a tool to create calendars for LibreOffice Writer using templates , for now on importing calendars. I think this tool will be very well received by the community. Greetings ... Any questions or suggestions please write .

#12

How would your calendars function? Just a printed calendar, or more like events, tasks, etc.?

#13

How would your calendars function? Just a printed calendar, or more like events, tasks, etc.?

#14

There are templates containing calendars available here.
http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center?getCategories=&getCompatibility=any&sort_on=positive_ratings&path=%2FLibreOffice-Templates%2Ftemplate-center&portal_type=PSCProject&SearchableText=calendar.
      This might help.

--Dan

#15

How can i download a template from that site?

#16

Ken Springer wrote:

My friend uses Windows.

Well, we all have our faults. :wink:

#17

Hi :slight_smile:
Pick any of the choices, such as
http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center/canadian-2013-calendar
and then click on the big letters that look like they are in something that is a bit like a big button.  Unfortunately my favourite one, the 6 faced cube that you can supposedly set-up for any year, is not available yet despite having 16 'likes'
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#18

ah, the 'not available' did the trick
i was looking at
http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center/sheet-music-9-staffs

which also seems to be not available....

#19

My dream is still Thunderbird with calendar, notes, tasks, contacts which can be synched with iPot and all running on XP machine

Should some know about a SW doing this and NOT being MS Outlook, I appreciate any hint.

#20

My dream is still Thunderbird with calendar, notes, tasks, contacts
which can be synched with iPot and all running on XP machine

Should some know about a SW doing this and NOT being MS Outlook, I
appreciate any hint.

Thuderbird does all you say, what's the problem?

I dont' know iPot obviously but thunderbird has calendar, notes, tasks, contacts and all can works on XP and sync with many device.