New Features for the All-New Calendar Beta
- Posted February 6th, 2009 at 6:33 am by AndrewM
- Categories: Address Book & Calendar, General, New Stuff
Just a few months back we told you about the launch of an updated version of the Yahoo! Calendar. The all-new Yahoo! Calendar Beta offers a host of great features like open standards (iCalendar), personalization with Flickr and drag-and-drop functionality to name just a few.
Since launching the public beta back in October, the Calendar team has been working hard behind the scenes to add more of the fantastically fabulous features (how’s that for alliteration) that you’ve been asking for. So it is with great pleasure that I can tell you they’ve just released some really exciting new stuff for you to enjoy:
- New Search: You can now search both Calendar and Notepad based on words in your event titles or notes.
- To-Do Lists: Now you can have multiple to-do lists (i.e. Personal, Work, etc.), and you can share to-do lists just like you can share your calendar. And if you don’t like to-do lists, you can hide them (just click and drag the to-do list to close it).
- Print: There’s a new print button that allows you to print your Month, Week or Day view.
- Right-click: A new right-click shortcut menu lets you add and view events, plus more. Give it a try!
Sounds pretty good, right? I especially like the new right-click menu to easily add an event to my calendar. If you haven’t tried the All-new Calendar Beta yet, maybe now is the time. You can move yourself over to the new calendar by following this link: http://switch.calendar.yahoo.com/. (Just a quick note: if you want to switch back, the new stuff you add won’t come back with you.)
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- 41 Comments
February 6th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Is the only way to hide the to-do lists is by dragging to the right so its out of view? This works for the current view but once you re-open the calendar it appears again.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:24 am
We are saving this information now so once you reopen calendar it will stay closed. If you aren’t seeing this try deleting your cookies. Its usually a button in your “Private Data” or Cache settings. If this is the case please tell us so we know its a bug. thanks
February 6th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Has the ability to send a daily summary of events email been added to the Calendar Beta?
February 6th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 6th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Good to see its still alive and recession has not killed it. But what about CalDav your site promises ?
http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/calendar/yahoocalendar/sync/sync-05.html
It does not work at all. Whats the point in adding new features when existing features does not work ?
Even add to calendar in yahoo mail contacts does not work at all.
Best thing would be to have a Known issue page for new calender. Its really frustrating since you don’t know whether that doesnot work for you or its not present at all.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:10 am
CalDAV is working, many people are using it currently. What are you trying to do exactly?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Event times still don’t appear properly in the week view. For example a 4pm event I had this past Tuesday in the month view appears at 12am in the week view..?? I reported this several times months ago and it has yet to be resolved.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Can you go to http://calendar.yahoo.com/options and make sure your timezone is correct? Thanks
February 6th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I tried it before. Won’t look at it again until I can AutoSync with either my phone’s or laptop’s calendar.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Coming!
February 6th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Great, it’s coming so we’ll get you back eventually :)
February 6th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Why does it take My E-mail so long to send one little on??????!!!!
February 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I’m just waiting for BlackBerry sync (via BlackBerry Desktop software). When you have that, I’m in!
February 6th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I expect the feature roll outs to be quicker (on email and calendar). MSN and Google seem to be really forging ahead with Yahoo trailing. I’m not sure Yahoo has its mail and calendar priorities straight.
Also, where does yahoo get its ideas for features to add? The yahoo mail group has people asking for all various features many times, and I rarely see any implemented. It really seems like yahoo is doing what it feels is good, but not what it’s users feel is good. Not a good way to do business …
February 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=calendar&viewmode=rating
Almost all of the features we tackled were out of the top 10 on that list.
February 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I would like to see more Calendar sharing Options.
1) Send reminders to people on a list for an event
2) A view that allows quests to see Holidays and Events etc.
My wife and I share my Calendar. Its not so useful for her since she does not see holidays or get reminders
February 6th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I gave up on Yahoo Calendar recently along with Windows Live Calendar. I have resisted Google Calendar for too long. My ultimate goal was to get Calendar information to my iPhone. I can now access calendar events online, Outlook/Exchange and on my iPhone. My hope was that Yahoo with get there new sync finished. Sorry guys, I love your calendar, but you are just way too far behind Google.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Amen on that.
February 6th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I noticed that none of the events I saved on the classic calendar were not imported to the new beta calendar when I tried it out. Do I need to re-type all the events and appointments should I decide to stay with the new calendar?
February 6th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Did you fix the New Notepad Beta yet?
That is: Make it work like the old-Notepad-we-all-know-and-love? The calendar changes I could have tolerated — But NOT being able to access my Notepad by most-recently-updated (let alone: any explicable sort ordering)? No Way!
February 7th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Thank you for the update. Do you still have on your plans multi-colour events (i.e. to visually separate different types of events, meetings, etc…) as well as using the CTRL key to copy and drag repeat events (similar to Outlook)?
Thanks in advance for reply
February 7th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Hello,
Sorry that my comment has nothing to see with this subject, but I don’t know where to find help. It’s been a few months now my yahoo mail search engine is just unable to find old mails. It’s a nightmare, even quite recent ones stopped appearing. Whatever I type, names, keywords, nothing works. I changed the search options but the result’s the same. I have to check all my mails patiently one by one to find the right one. Does anyone have the same troubles? If you know the solution, please email me directly, it’d be so helpfull… damiencaze@yahoo.com
February 9th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Damien,
Your best bet is to reach out to the Yahoo! Customer Care Dept. In your particular case this is a known issue that requires their assistance. You should fill out the form here:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/help_s.html
I would literally cut and paste your description of the issue above into this form.
Thanks,
Carl
February 7th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Hi,
Love to see more Mail-Calendar integration. For example, to be able to drag an email to the Calendar icon and have it create a new event to fill out the detail. Same with To-Do’s–drag the email over to a Task/To-do icon and have it populated with the body of the email. This is a killer productivity feature I use in Outlook all the time.
Cheers,
Peter
February 7th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
There was nothing dramatically wrong with the original Calendar.
I personally HATE the new Bata calendar.
The original Calendar layout is much better.
Full calendar on the left you could quickly change years and months an then select a date.
The search events was excellent.
One change I was looking for was to modify the color of an event, so it would stand out on the calendar.
Another change was to the events list itself EVENT TYPE is too restrictive, appointments should have Medical, Dental, Eye, Business, Etc. Sports could have added Golf, Basketball, baseball, Soccer etc.
The BATA version is too radical, what a same that you spent all the money on it.
February 7th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
The Task list is a good start. But how about letting me add some more info to each item. And please for the love of G*d how about some desktop email IMAP access finally? I’ll double the amount I pay for the plus/premium tier.
February 7th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Help!!!!
I have tried to contact yahoo with no luck. now I have a cappa thing on my out going mail but it dose not work. when I click in the box nothing ever goes in to the box thus I can not send out mail???? what good is that?
February 8th, 2009 at 9:09 am
can you do importing of iCal?
February 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Yes. As well as export.
February 8th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
how about also exporting to iCal?
i would like to sync between Yahoo Calendar and Mac iCal.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:10 am
I told my friends and wife about. They will not touch it unless it can syc with their Palm Treos.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:55 am
What about the entire Zimbra thing? Will the interface be integrated with mail so that it is like Zimbra? I don’t mean the Zimbra dsektop, but a web interface. Thanks.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I wouldn’t have too high of expectations for Zimbra…
So far, it’s proven to be a waste of time and money.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Let me elaborate on this a little more… When YMail bothers to clean up the mess that is its email “configuration” screens, then that’s the sign of progress.
Because right now, having to “switch” between old and new configuration screens is ridiculous. It’s been like this for years…. fix it already. What else is it that you do there?
February 9th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Still getting error message 15…message 16…Mail Down…etc.
What IS the deal?
February 10th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
I am having rendering issues with the new calendar in Firefox 3.0.6. For example: if I schedule a 3 hour appointment from 3pm to 6pm, it will display a different 3 hour timeframe in the day view. It will display yet another 3 hour timeframe in the week view. If I sit my cursor on the timeframe, it will still show the original 3 hour block that I had set. All views display correctly in IE7.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:28 am
I would also like the Event List format (including printable version).
One thing missing from the current Yahoo Calendar Event List is the day of the week, which would be very useful – especially when it is printed.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Hi Andrew,
I am thrilled with the new feature enhancements to the calendar! Actually I filed a request for multiple to-do lists and ical feeds for to-do lists just last week right before it came out.
One thing I wanted to mention is that there is a bug with making shared to-do lists. I tried to share to-do lists with a friend so he could get read/write access, and it keeps going back to read-only access for him, it won’t let me give him write access and the radio button to do so stops working.
Even with the bug though, this is a big win. Thank you so much. I am now in the process dumping my gmail and google calendar accounts. Zimbra is awesome and I love that it’s open source (Google is not!!).
To the person who stated that Yahoo is trailing Google – ORLY?? Last I checked Google calendar does NOT let you export your todo lists in ical…. I had to create a rememberthemilk.com account just for that. Now I don’t need it anymore!
Thanks again!
~m
February 11th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
And what about IMAP? Gmail doesn’t lock you to Zimbra… unlike YMail… Have you ever heard of IMAP locked to a specific client? It’s a joke…
February 11th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Oh! one more bug I wanted to mention, although I’m sure your team is already well-aware. If my name (has accent marks, “Máirín”) appears correctly with accent marks in the mail/calendar UI, in my outgoing emails and invitations it comes out all gobbledygook. I mucked with it a bit, and now in the Yahoo! UI my name looks all gobbledygook but in outgoing emails at least people can read my real name.
Seems like some kind of i18n issue with string handling somewhere… Just thought I’d point it out.
Thanks,
~m