ivavan

Q: calendar restrictions

Apple is addressing the business market more and more.

We moved from windows to Mac in our private clinic, with 4 doctors, estheticiens, receptionist and secretaries we share 8 common calendars.

This works like a charm! Everybody is in sync with all appointments made in a particular calendar. PC, MAC, Iphone, Ipad no problems!

Everybody happy, but........

Now we get a message that we reached our limit and cannot add appointments!

On search we found: iCloud: Limits for Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, and Bookmarks - Apple Support which states that "the maximum size of all calendar data is limited to 24MB ????? We have 5 Gb of data in Icloud but are only allowed to use 24 Mb for calendar data........

 

We contacted Apple support: Who answered that this could not be altered, so we had 2 solutions:

  1. remove appointments form the past
  2. use separate apple-id's and share calendars

Option 1 is not what we want since we want to keep track off appointments we had in the past.

We started out with option 2 but ran into much sync issues where appointments were not added or late, resulting in double appointments, which were resolved once we converted to 1 apple id.

 

So we are stuck now, what to do? Go to Goolgle Calendar? Or back to Microsoft Exchange?

Can anyone from Apple explain why these data limits are so restricted, and if they plan to expand this in the near future?

 

If Apple wants to focus more on the business market, http://recode.net/2015/01/08/apple-hires-hp-veteran-to-head-up-corporate-sales/ then a proper Calendar solution seems one of the first thing to have, or does anyone  has a solution for our problem other than the two mentioned?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), iphone 4, ios 5

Posted on Jan 10, 2015 2:43 AM

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  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Jan 10, 2015 8:01 AM in response to ivavan
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    Jan 10, 2015 8:01 AM in response to ivavan

    Have you thought about sharing calendars from separate ID's by simply signing into the account rather than conventional sharing. That way, assuming it's what you want, each doctor would see only their calendar, but reception would sign into everyone's account and see everyone's calendars.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jan 10, 2015 11:42 AM in response to ivavan
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    Jan 10, 2015 11:42 AM in response to ivavan

    Here's another possible scenario although a bit like WC's:

     

    1 - have each Doctor rename his calendar with his name.

    2 - have each doctor share his calendar with Reception (Reception will have to have a separate email address).

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    3 - now Reception will have each doctor's calendar on its calendar while each doctor only have their own calendar and appointments.

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  • by ivavan,

    ivavan ivavan Mar 20, 2015 9:40 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Mar 20, 2015 9:40 AM in response to Old Toad

    Your solution is option 2, which we have tried but we ran into syncing problems where 2 calendar items could be placed on the same time point.

    Which doesn't happen if we all use the same...

    It would be nice to have a contact working for Apple who takes care of Calendar ti talk this through,