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As of today, ChronoLink offers paid subscriptions. Although ChronoLink has been available since the start of its Open Beta in January 2023, today is our real launch day!

From the start, our goal was to make a professional but affordable calendar synchronization service. That is why we not only set competitive prices for our subscription plans, but also offer a permanently free basic plan. For details, see our pricing page.

If you have any questions, or encounter problems with signing up, subscribing or using ChronoLink, we are here to help:

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Improvements

  • ChronoLink can now create calendar events for the birthdays of your Google Contacts.

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Website Update

  • We have officially published our Terms of Service. Complementing our existing Privacy Policy, these terms formally describe our relations with users. As such legal matters are often boring, we did our best to keep the document short and easy to understand.

Update

Improvements

  • In addition to standard event fields like title or description, the text condition can now also be used to search properties.
    • This allows selecting (or omitting) events based on things like the name of the project a Jira worklog entry belongs to, or a vendor-specific iCalendar field.

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Fixes

  • When using our Outlook add-in to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server, the Outlook UI no longer becomes unresponsive for several seconds during sync connection runs.

    • The bug is present in all previous versions, but is more easily noticeable with 1.3.0.
    • Users of Exchange Online and Outlook.com were not affected as ChronoLink accesses those calendars via the cloud-based Microsoft Graph API.

    Setup

    Existing users need to install version 1.3.1 of ChronoLink Connector for Outlook. The installer will upgrade the existing installation.

    For general setup instructions, read the "Exchange Server" page of our user guide.

Update

Improvements

  • We released a new version of our Outlook add-in to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server. It features the following enhancements:

    • The add-in will now automatically recover from losing the connection to the ChronoLink servers (e.g. when the user connects to a VPN). Previously, the add-in remained inactive until the user quit and restarted Outlook.
    • Improved performance during startup to avoid Outlook automatically disabling the add-in.

    Setup

    Existing users need to install version 1.3.0 of ChronoLink Connector for Outlook. The installer will upgrade the existing installation.

    For general setup instructions, read the "Exchange Server" page of our user guide.

Update

Improvements

  • Added two features which can be used to simplify condition & transformer configuration in some cases:
    • The new unless transformer is a compact alternative to using if with a not condition.
    • The not condition now supports specifying a list of conditions via anyOf, which achieves the same result as specifying that list inside a nested or condition.

Update

Fixes

  • When synchronising work logs from Atlassian Jira, ChronoLink no longer seems to randomly ignore certain issues.
    • It turned out that when an issue has more than 100 worklogs, it cannot be found reliably with search criteria involving the worklogAuthor or worklogDate fields. The reason is a limitation that Atlassian had to put in to ensure good search performance.
    • To fix this, we have switched to another approach that no longer relies on those fields. As a side effect, this new approach also improves performance.

Website Update

  • We added further details to our Open Beta page and updated our Pricing Preview to match our current planning.

Update

Improvements

  • Added the relativerange condition to select events based on the current time.
    • For example, this allows restricting synchronization to "current week", to "events remaining today" or to "the last 12 hours plus the next 24 hours". This way, synchronized events in the target calendar that are no longer in that time frame will be deleted automatically.
    • Combined with the if transformer, it could also be used to remove sensitive details from events until they have passed, or to highlight events that are currently running (e.g. add a ⭐ to the title and/or set a special color).
    • This complements various existing options related to date and time, such as:
      • The daterange condition where you set specific start/end dates
      • The time condition for day-of-week and time-of-day rules like "Wednesday between 9 and 12"
      • The duration condition which matches events of a certain (minimum/maximum) duration
      • The connection-level setting for synchronization time frame with predefined options like today, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and so on

Update

Fixes

  • When using our Outlook add-in to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server, ChronoLink no longer fails when encountering multiple accounts.

    • Users of Exchange Online and Outlook.com were not affected as ChronoLink accesses those calendars via the cloud-based Microsoft Graph API.

    Setup

    Existing users need to install version 1.2.0 of ChronoLink Connector for Outlook. The installer will upgrade the existing installation.

    For general setup instructions, read the "Exchange Server" page of our user guide.