September 19, 2012 — You can already view your device calendars (iPad and iPhone Calendar app) items in various views in LifeTopix, such as in What’s Next (Home), in My Calendar, and in the Events topic.
But did you know that if you tap and hold on a device calendar item, you can convert that into a LifeTopix item (tasks, appointments, projects, trips, etc.)?
An example — let’s say you are working on a Kitchen Remodel project that you are tracking in LifeTopix. As you are scheduling deliveries of material, let’s say you had created the delivery of the new kitchen sink in your device calendar. But now you wish it to be a task in your Kitchen Remodel project in LifeTopix, so that you can more accurately track all the steps in the project. No problem! Just tap and hold on the device event visible in your LifeTopix view, and you can easily convert it into a task, and then associate that task with your project. Voila!
Vicky
How do I get the calendar to list national holidays
LifeTopix Support
Hi Vicky,
Thank you for reaching to us with your question.
To include US holidays in the LifeTopix calendar views you will need to add a calendar with US holidays to the device’s Calendar App first.
Here are the steps to get a calendar with US holidays on your iOS device:
1. Tap the Settings icon
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
3. Scroll down and tap Add Account…
4. Tap Other
5. Tap Add Subscribed Calendar
6. In the server field, input: ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics — then tap Next
7. On the next screen, change the name of the calendar under “Description” if you choose — then tap Save
After adding the US holiday calendar to your device’s Calendar app open LifeTopix and make sure the filter for the calendar includes it.
Now you will see the holidays in LifeTopix.
Here is one of our blogs that describes how to add an iOS calendar: http://lightarrow.com/5-lifetopix-tips-to-help-you-manage-the-family-calendar
Best regards,
Team LightArrow
Emiro
Thanks! Great service!
There is another issue. Usually projects do not last a full day. You dedicate several hours to different projects. At the moment if I want
to declare a project with a duration of, say, 3 months, and your team works only two hours a day on it, how do you formulate it? A solution would
be to be able to repeat projects, so that you could declare a project, e.g. from 2pm to 4pm on Mondays and Tuesdays during the next three
months. However, I do not see the “repeat“option in projects.
Thanking you in advance,
Emiro Molina
LightArrow
Hi Emiro,
That’s a good example to share with us. It probably has more to do with how to assign working time for a long term project on a given schedule, rather than the project itself repeating. We currently support repeat schedules for tasks (which could belong to a project) which may accomplish something similar. We hope that helps. We’ll see if we can make improvements to support this better.
Best regards,
Team LightArrow