Automatically sync new calenders / task-lists

[NextBlaubeere]

I am using Nextcloud tasks quite heavily. Therefore I often create new task projects which are synced to my android phone via DAVx5.
However, everytime I create a new project i have to refresh the list on the CALDAV tab within the android app and manually select the new projects/calenders.

How can I make DAVx5 to automatically refresh the list and turn on sync for new entries?

[sunkup]

Syncs are automatic. You can change the polling interval in the settings. We are working on a solution (webdav-push) to bring near instantaneous updates, but for the time being you will need to make the polling interval shorter.

The collection refresh is not automatic. At the moment it is not possible to enable automatic collection refreshes.

We have considered refreshing the collections before syncing a few times now, but some users have huge collection lists, which would slow down the sync unnecessarily every time.

Since the introduction of work manager we could now prepend the sync with a refresh by chaining the two work requests, which seems relatively easy. So I guess we could make this a setting that is disabled by default without too much effort. Might be interesting for managed customers as well. How about it @devvv4ever @rfc2822 ?

[RokeJulianLockhart]

#770 (comment)

@sunkup, please consider this. I've a few times been confused by why a change I made on NextCloud wasn't syncing, before remembering that lists aren't automatically refreshed.

[ArnyminerZ]

Hi, @RokeJulianLockhart we have released a super-alpha version of this. It's still on development, but works reasonably well. You can take a look at the repo https://github.com/bitfireAT/nc_ext_dav_push/.

We will be covering the topic at NextcloudConf 2024.

Feel free to try it out, and debug or report any issues, which again, you can really expect.

[sunkup]

@RokeJulianLockhart

@ArnyminerZ means the webdav-push functionality here. We have not yet decided how to handle automatic collection refresh.

[Atemu]

We have considered refreshing the collections before syncing a few times now, but some users have huge collection lists, which would slow down the sync unnecessarily every time.

Besides of proper solutions to scalability issues, is there a reason this couldn't just be a toggle which users could manually enable?

I imagine most users don't have huge collections but rather just a handful of items but enough where it gets tedious to enable on all of their devices.

You could perhaps even enable it by default and have some basic size heuristics to disable it with the mentioned "huge" collections (but still let those enable it manually).

The fact that new items aren't added automatically is a huge usability issue IMHO. Nerds might understand but mere mortals? No chance.

[sunkup]

@Atemu I am with you on this.

If I remember correctly, our head of engineering @rfc2822 had some other reasons as well, though I can't see why we could not make this a setting which is turned off by default.