Management of filtered events out from Outlook

[orl776]

Hi,
in 2.10.0 release I saw the new feature "2-way: Don’t delete from Google items that were filtered out from Outlook"
But this is causing to me some troubles.

Here is my case:

• in order to exclude some events from sync, I label them in Outlook with a specific category named "skip"
• I configured OGCS in order to filter out from sync such a catetogy

What I'm experiencing now is the following

• a new invitation arrives in Outlook (so no category is set for the event)
• the event is synced and appears in Google
• later I decide to skip the event and set it as tentative in outlook
• since there is no way to identify tentative events in Google, I label the event with the "skip" category in Outlook

Before the 2.10.0 OGCS filtered out the "skip" event, the Google event had no twin in Outlook anymore and OGCS prompted me to delete it in Google
Now instead the filtering seems to simply not consider the event, so I have the Outlook event with the "skip" category set but the Google calendar is still there.
I'm not sure but it seems that the category filter feature simply skips changes applied in Outlook but not the event itself in the compared list of events.

Hope to have a rollback of this feature or at least a new feature to map outlook tentative events with a specific color in google (I also added a comment to the enhancement #1254 - "Option to exclude Out Of Office, Tentative, Private calendar items")

Thanks

[phw198]

Thanks for raising this @orl776 - the change in behaviour came from #1083 (comment). I'll have to have a think on best way to handle both that and your situation...

Meanwhile, you may be interested in #825 which can now also filter out tentative calendar items.

[phw198]

So with the ability to filter tentative/free events, this works as a "hard" delete - if an item is filtered, the synced copy gets deleted, which is the behaviour you are after.

Strictly, #1083 also wanted to filter on availability/free - but not have this sync back as a deletion.

One option could be to have a switch to drive the behaviour (delete or not to delete for filtered items), but then this would inevitably be required for every single individual filter option (all day, availability, privacy, category.....) - that way lies lots of work, confusion for users and general madness 🥴

So I think the sweet spot might be:

• add the "delete or not to delete filtered items" option just for category filtering, as categories give the user much more flexibility over which ones they define,assign and how OGCS uses them
• leave all other filtering options (all-day, availability, privacy...) to always delete when filtered

Thoughts @orl776 @Imbutien @ghnogueira ?

[phw198]

📦 This should now be available with hotfix v2.10.0.9.zip (see instructions for applying).

Note:

• the option is only available for 2-way syncs
• the default is back to pre v2.10 behaviour and excluded items will be deleted.

Please let me know how it goes!

[orl776]

I think both this hotfix and the behaviour in #825 fit perfectly all my needs and I can handle all my use cases. I'll install the fix and test it. Thanks a lot for your fast and effective support.

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[orl776]

Hi I just tested the Tentative sync and the filtered events deletion and both seems to work properly There is though a scenario where OGCS does not do what is expected (even if it should be an edge case and so not a big issue). My settings are: - Delete synced items if excluded: ON - Exclude items (Tentative): ON Here it is what's happening: - I received an invitation in Outlook and I set it as Tentative - the event remains Tentative and is not synched - I accept the event - the event is synced to Google - I set the event as Tentative - the event is deleted from Google as expected - I accept the event again - I'm prompted to delete the event from Outlook instead of resyncing it back to Google The same happens even if I set/unset a filtered category in Outlook (instead of Tentative): if an event is synced to Google and then removed (by Tentative or filtering), in case the event is re-enabled to sync again, it is not synced back to Google but is deleted from Outlook (or prompted to). As said, it sounds to me as an edge case and so not a big issue. Thanks

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 22:17, Orlando Ferrara ***@***.***> wrote: I think both this hotfix and the behaviour in #825 fit perfectly all my needs and I can handle all my use cases. I'll install the fix and test it. Thanks a lot for your fast and effective support. _________________________ Il dom 30 lug 2023, 17:12 Paul Woolcock ***@***.***> ha scritto: > Closed #1682 > <#1682> as > completed via d0594e3 > <d0594e3> > . > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#1682 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BBSFDL6A3JHAXMZEU2AKQ7DXSZ2XLANCNFSM6AAAAAA23DOI6I> > . > You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: > <phw198/OutlookGoogleCalendarSync/issue/1682/issue_event/9956931195@ > github.com> >

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[phw198]

Thanks @orl776 - I've raised #1686 to track this