calender birthdays / anniversaries alerts

[hari.p]

Why is it that the iphone does not display an alert for birthday's / anniversaries?
Is there any particular setting for this?

 

[anon(153966)]

Are you using Gmail? If yes, I'd add the birthday's to the respective contacts, and then sync (Google Exchange). That way, you still get the alerts, etc, etc.

 

[hari.p]

nope .. i'm not using Gmail .. i use my pop3 email address ..
any other way around this issue?

 

[flyingember]

email has nothing to do with your calendar items

When I setup a calendar item on the phone I can set alerts. Works great.

 

[hari.p]

i usually enter the contacts on my mac ... including the birthday and the anniversary..
when i sync, the b'days and anniversaries turn up on the calender fine...
but no alerts on the iphone.
am i missing something here?

 

[anon(153966)]

hari.p - I use to notice the same thing when I would sync with Outlook. Then when I started to use the Google Calendar, i.e. Gmail, that issue was resolved, thus my initial question.

I could have sworn I had the same issue with my Mobile ME account.

 

[flyingember]

are you entering the birthdays in the calendar or in your contacts and using the birthdays subscription?

 

[hari.p]

i'm entering the birthdays in my contacts and using the b'days subscription.
i use a time capsule for back up.
is there any particular reason that i should set up my calender in google?