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BusyCal Birthdays

BusyCal can display the birthdays from Address Book contacts in your calendar. Select BusyCal > Preferences > General, and select the Show Birthdays calendar option. A new Birthdays calendar will appear under the ADDRESS BOOK heading and any Address Book contacts with Birthdays will be displayed as Banners in the calendar. In addition, if you select the option to Include ages in birthdays, the contact's age will be displayed in the Banner title.

Birthdays

If you open the Info Panel for a Birthday, you'll see some Birthday-specific fields:

Birthday Infopanel

The Birthdays calendar can be synced over the LAN with other BusyCal users or with Google Calendar but will not sync to other apps and services like iCal, iCloud and the iPhone because iCal, iCloud and iOS already have direct support for the Birthdays calendar.

The Birthdays calendar is read-only and cannot be edited in BusyCal. If you wish to change or remove a birthdate, you must make the change in Address Book.

Note: iCal has a similar option that displays a Birthdays calendar under the SUBSCRIPTIONS heading. You should disable that option in iCal > Preferences > General, or you will see two Birthdays calendars in BusyCal — one created by BusyCal and one created by iCal.