Bug 305990

Summary:	Kontact-4.8.3 does not show all upcoming birthdays in the summary list (some are missing)
Product:	[Applications] kontact	Reporter:	Christian <k>
Component:	summary	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kdebugs, lsbaker2010, stakanov.s, winter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Christian 2012-08-29 14:22:13 UTC

I've configured the summary list to show the upcoming birthdays in the next 31 days as part of the "Summary" view under Special dates. However, for some contacts the birthdays are not shown there. In particular, I have a contact who has a birthday in 12 days - the birthday is shown correctly in the Addressbook entry for that contact. There are birthdays in the summary list from the same addressbook, both including earlier and later dates, but this one contact's birthday is missing in the list. There may be other contacts whose birthdays are not shown - I don't know.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Kontact and look at the summary view.

Actual Results:  
The birthdays list in the "Special dates" section is incomplete.

Expected Results:  
It should show all the birthdays that happen in the interval specified in the corresponding configuration section.

Oddly enough, the birthday does show up in the list of upcoming events of the Kontact summary view. (I don't know why that list shows birthdays at all, they are not "Events" in my calendar.) That's how I can see that the birthday in question is missing on the Special dates summary.

Comment 1 Christian 2012-08-29 14:23:04 UTC

PS Not a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299645 - that bug talks about the birthday list showing none or exactly 1 entry.

Comment 2 Andrey 2013-04-06 20:26:58 UTC

Confirm this bug.

KDE 4.10.1
Gentoo Linux, amd64

Comment 3 Christian 2013-05-04 12:58:27 UTC

still buggy in 4.10.2

Comment 4 stakanov.s 2014-01-24 13:54:44 UTC

KDE 4.11.4 openSUSE 13.1
I think this is a duplicate, educate me differently if not, in the current stable opensuse packages for 13.1 the function to show birthdays from events or contacts is broken all along not showing any birthday coming up.  It appears also "events" and anniversaries do not show up. 
So this is to some extend a "non feature" since that is broken also in 12.3 with 4.10.5.
Valuable for 32 bit and 64 bit Italian packages and German packages. 
Forgetting people's birthday or anniversaries is a risky business (think about flying cups and plates if you are married).  So I will vote for this one, to save money on traumatic cranial evens.

Comment 5 Larry 2015-01-09 21:24:18 UTC

Confirm also in Kontact 4.11.5

Comment 6 stakanov.s 2015-05-02 17:39:49 UTC

This is solved in 4.14.6 so it can be closed IMO