Google Calendar show question mark for events modified on Pre

[eKalb]

I have noticed this too. Any event created on my Pre has a question mark in Google Calendar. When I tell it I am attending, the question mark goes away in Google Calendar, but the Pre never shows me as attending, though it will show other people as attending once they respond. Events created in Google Calendar do not have any invites as a default, so the Pre is creating new events with an invite to myself pending, and the only way to address it is to open Google Calendar.

I would like for the Pre to create events the same way Google Calendar does by default (no invites, even to myself) but it would be nice to be able to add invites to other people from the Pre's contacts if desired.

[jchnny]

This is a very frustating and elusive problem. I have tried ad nauseum to come up with any pattern to reproduce the problem, but to no avail. 

In brief, it seems when creating a calendar event on the Pre, it will randomly add you as a guest to that event, and subsequently ask you if you will be attending the event in Google Calendar (GC).  This will not be seen if you are only looking at your events on your Pre.  You will see it when using your web browser to view events in GC after they have synchronized from your Pre.  If it has happened, there will be two small icons in the very small title bar at the top of the event.  One is a small question mark, which seems to indicate that you have been invited to attend, but have not responded.  And the other is a small silouhette of a person, which seems to indicate that event involves other people, i.e. guests.

I have yet to find an easy work around.  I suppose if you don't care about having invitations work in Google Calendar you can turn them off completely.  Otherwise there is no simple solution.

I have multiple calendars which I created in GC.  I did this because it was the only way to simulate the calendar categories in the old Palm OS.  For instance, I have my default calendar, which I renamed "Personal", as well as "Work", "Church", and "Family Birthdays".  Some people have suggested the problem occurs because the calendars have been shared.  This is not the case, because I only share Family Birthdays.  All of the others are private for my eyes only. 

Some people have suggested that the problem is because the sub calendars (e.g. Work, Church, etc.) are not correctly set to "Automatically add all invitations to this calendar" under the calendar details.  This also is not the case.

Others have suggested it only occurs in the sub calendars, so that deleting the subcalendars will solve the problem.  While I have not deleted all of the sub calendars, events I have created for my "Personal" calendar, which is the master calendar, have been synchronized as the dreaded event that you have to tell yourself you are attending. 

It is likely a bug on the Pre (or with how the synchronization process occurs), because it does not happen when creating events from a web browser in GC.   I have had the problem since day one owning my Pre.  It has been present through all of the webos updates.  Hopefully, by explaining the issue again, it will help the problem become more clear so it can be addressed by Palm.   A significant problem will be that it is not easy to replicate and the pattern seems random.

A few more details that may be of help.  Normally when an event is created in GC using a web browser you can invite other people.  When you click on the event to see its details, you are shown some panes on the right hand side letting you manage the invitations.  This is where you can see that it is YOU that has been invited to the event by yourself.  You are told "You haven't responded," and are asked "Are you coming?".  This is where it gets really confusing. 

When you have been invited to your own event, you can show up as being invited by the name associated with your Gmail account, your actual email address, or ... dramatic pause ... your sub calendar title.  Yes that's right.  For me, it will say it is awaiting a response from "Work".  And the final kicker is that the option to "remove" the guest doesn't work when its yourself or your sub calendar title that is the guest to your own event.  The only way around it is to completely delete the event and create it new.  

Now, this last part seems to be a problem with GC.  If you create a new GC event using a web browser and then add yourself as a guest identified by your Gmail address you CAN reproduce the problem--albeit without the step where synchronizing from the Palm Pre creates the error in the first place.  

Hopefully these details can help lead to a solution, along with what others are experiencing.  Here is a link to another forum.  http://forums.precentral.net/webos-synergy-synchronization/188874-why-do-i-have-confirm-my-attendanc...

[DCgal]

The tech in this thread says they are working on it (scroll down to where "lazycheese" explains his discovery):

http://forums.palm.com/palm/board/message?board.id=Synergy&thread.id=4880

[eKalb]

Thanks DCgal. Though the other thread isn't about the same issue, I think you correctly connected these two problems to the same issue. Apparently, events created on the Pre are not treated as actual events by Google Calendar, but as invitations to events sent to you by your own calendar. I believe that when they fix the other issue, this one will be fixed as well by default, as fixing the issue means that events will be created correctly in the first place, negating the invitations all together. 

[eKalb]

There is a new problem that came with the update to WebOS 1.2.1.  When you create an event on the Pre with a reminder, it will remind you at the correct time, but you will also get an email reminding you as well. This is redundant to me as I don't need the reminder twice. The only way to remove the email reminder is to go into Google Calendar in a web browser, open the event and remove the email reminder from there. You cannot do this from the Pre even using the Pre's web browser, as it will not load the event details in the popup window of the full version of Google Calendar.