Google Calendar popup position

[laurie]

Hi

When you use the google calendar to look at or add events, it would be nice if the popup box was centred on the screen. I have to scroll up the screen every time I use it, as it positions it at the top of the screen. Also how to you get your existing key dates to show in your calendar and invoices that have already been entered.

Regards
Laurie

[Glenn]

Hi Laurie, yes we are aware of this and it should be fixed in our next major release, unless we can squeeze it in earlier.

I’m not sure about your second query, for whichever Calendar QuickFile is linked to, you should be able to see all pending events from the dashboard pop-up. Although I’m afraid you can’t link existing events to invoices in QuickFile.

[laurie]

Hi Glenn

I was expecting to see all my key filling dates loaded into my google calendar, but they are not. Do I have to do something to transfer them ?

e.g. Vat is due on 30/6/15. Thats not showing in my gcal.

Regards
Laurie

[Glenn]

It will normally sync (i.e. create the events) with Google Calendar the next time the Companies House data is refreshed, this usually happens once every 24 hours. If you’ve just connected to GC it may therefore take a 24 hours before this happens.

At the moment the Google calendar only syncs Companies House dates e.g. Annual Return and Annual Accounts due dates, no VAT I’m afraid. VAT dates don’t change too often so you could just create one recurring (quarterly/monthly) event for your VAT manually in GC.

EDIT:

BTW we fast-tracked the fix on the calendar popup as it was possible to make without a full release.

[laurie]

Hi Glenn

That a lot better with the popup. Thanks for that.

Could the dates in the Gcal not be linked in some way to the dates generated by QF in the key dates calendar. When I click on that it show all the key dates including the VAT dates.

Regards
Laurie

[Glenn]

At the moment the Google Calendar sync is linked to the Companies House sync process. So when CH is refreshed, at that point the dates are passed to Google Calendar. To be quite honest the complexity of this system is such that I don’t think it will be extended anytime soon.

The main purpose of the Google Calendar integration was to quickly add events and track invoice due dates. Anything else will require quite a lot of extra coding.