Just wanted to chime in a big *ditto*.  I've been missing this lately
too.
-Lee

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 12:16, Andy McMullin wrote:
> > Rodrigo Vilar wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I do not know how to get notifications on my contacts' birthday.
> > >
> > >Can anyone help me?
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK, the birthrate associated with the contact record doesn't do 
> > anything (more FYI).  To receive notifications, put the dates in
> > the Calendar module and set it to remind you at whatever interval
> > you want.  
> >
> > I use this with great success.  Perhaps it would be nice in the
> > future to optionally have the dates associated with the contact
> > record be entered in the calendar as well.  Prevent double entry,
> > and all.
> 
> I agree. Then it would operate like Outlook -- which I thought is was
> advertised to do!
> 
> More seriously though, this is one of the features of Outlook that I
> really miss -- keeping the central record of people's birthdays and
> anniversaries in their contact card and having it propagate from there
> to my calendar. It make it all so much simpler to have one source of
> data.
-- 
J. Lee Dixon
Sr Software Engineer
SAIC - Celebration, FL
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