Settings

Use words for date: If set, the main date display page will use words like 'today', 'tomorrow', etc. If not set, the page will always show the date itself.

Auto-Update Notes: When set, the contact notes will automatically be updated to contain dates whenever they are modified by EboBirthday (which could happen either by editing them directly or by importing Windows Mobile data).

Use All Contacts: When you browse through your contacts on your Android phone, you'll only see a subset called 'My Contacts'. Internally, Google stores a lot more contacts, for example 'suggested contacts', which are created whenever you reply to a mail. By checking this box, you'll see all the contacts on your phone, including suggested contacts.

Show Next Year: Make it clear that the age indicates how old a person will be if the birthday happens to be next year.

Show Upcoming Age: Shows how old a person is going to be in parentheses. If disabled, shows how old the person currently is.

Enable Notifications: If enabled, an icon in the notification bar will alert about upcoming birthdays.

Advance Day Warning: Number of days in advance the notifications will warn about an upcoming event.

Persistent Icon: If set, notifications will remain in the notification bar until you click on "Clear All Notifications". If not, they will disappear as soon as you click on the notification.

Event Types: Lets you add, delete, and modify event types (by default, the two types available are Birthdays and Anniversaries). Available settings are:

• Name: The name of the event as it appears in lists.
• Contact Integration: Keyword: The string that is used in contacts' notes to identify this event type.
• Contact Integration: Date Format: The date format to use in contacts' notes.
• Sending Text Messages: Template: The template to use when sending an SMS. %f is the first name of the person, %l the last name, %n the full name.
• Sending E-mails: Subject Template: The template to use for the message subject when sending an e-mail. Same template as for text messages.
• Sending E-mails: Body Template: The template to use for the message body when sending an e-mail. Same template as for text messages.
• CSV File: Keyword: The column header to use when importing or exporting CSV files.
• CSV File: Date Format: The date format to use when importing or exporting CSV files.

NOTE that you MUST click on the "Click here to convert" button if you already have events in the database and have those in notes. Otherwise, EboBirthday will no longer recognize the old tags in the notes and add new ones, resulting in ugly duplicates.

Calendar Integration: Allows you to have EboBirthday create matching entries in the calendar for all the dates.

• Calendar To Use: You can specify a calendar that all entries will be written to. If you don't select this, EboBirthday will prompt you before you start actually using the calendar integration.
• Auto-Update Calendar: If checked, EboBirthday will automatically create or update an entry in the calendar whenever you add, update, or delete a date.
• Alarm: Select how many days in advance the reminder in the calendar will be set. Can be disabled as well.
• Alarm Time: If a reminder is set, this is the time at which the alarm will go off. This is ignored if alarms are turned off in the "Alarm" section.
• Delete All Entries: Will delete every single calendar entry that had been created by EboBirthday in the currently selected calendar.

Widgets: Allows you to customize the optional EboBirthday widget on the home screen (Cupcake only).

• Date Format: The date format to use for the dates shown on the widget.
• Advance Day Warning: How many days in advance dates will be shown on the widget.

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