Hi,
I’m new around here and I’ve read that on this forum piggy-backing on other’s threads is frowned upon. However, I came looking for an answer to this exact question. Therefore it would seem daft to not add my thoughts and experiences here for the benefit of others in search of the same answer.
I am in the process of evaluating a number of event / calendar plug-ins and was close to ‘rejecting’ All In One as (for me) its significant win against others is the import option, whilst having a couple of other not quite so good points. [More on those elsewhere]
Superficially from both documentation and the user interface it would appear that the import functionality (in the free plug-in) is a single shot process – it looked as though a refresh required manual intervention – which does not fulfil my needs. It was only by accident did I observe that (whilst rebuilding the source calendar) all of the events (which I had just deleted manually from Ai1) suddenly reappeared with no manual intervention. WOW! GREAT! Just what I really need but did not realise that the plug-in delivered this. It is s decision changer!
From one test undertaken yesterday, it looks as though there is a 2 hour update interval – it is not a quick as synch processes, but it would fulfil my needs.
I have read in the trouble shooting topics of a configurable item for the update interval – this is not actually present in (the free version of) the plug-in. Consequently there is no hint within the UI / the plug-in that it is any more than a single shot one time copy of an external calendar.
May I suggest that providing more (clearer) ‘up-front’ information on the regular refresh functionality of the ‘import’ process would significantly ‘elevate’ the benefits of this plug-in. Though I still have some issues to address, Ai1 is now top of the 4 tools I have been considering, rather than the bottom one.
