[Bug]: Contact birthdays are not displayed in dashboard upcoming events

[GreyXor]

⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️

• This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
• This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
• Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
• I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.

Bug description

The birthday of one of my contacts, does not appear in upcoming events

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a contact with birthday tomorrow
2. Checking that the contact birthday is in calendar (yes)
3. go to dashboard a find that birthday is not in "Upcoming events"

Expected behavior

Having the birthday in the upcoming event

Installation method

Community Docker image

Nextcloud Server version

28

Operating system

Debian/Ubuntu

PHP engine version

PHP 8.3

Web server

Nginx

Database engine version

PostgreSQL

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

Fresh Nextcloud Server install

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

None

What user-backends are you using?

• Default user-backend (database)
• LDAP/ Active Directory
• SSO - SAML
• Other

Configuration report

{
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        "apps_paths": [
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            },
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                "url": "\/custom_apps",
                "writable": true
            }
        ],
        "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "redis": {
            "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "port": 0
        },
        "overwriteprotocol": "https",
        "trusted_proxies": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "upgrade.disable-web": true,
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "localhost",
            "cloud.plerion.net"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "pgsql",
        "version": "28.0.4.1",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/localhost",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbport": "",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "installed": true,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "maintenance": false,
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "mail_smtpauth": 1,
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "587",
        "mail_smtpname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtppassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "loglevel": 2
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}

List of activated Apps

Enabled:
  - activity: 2.20.0
  - bruteforcesettings: 2.8.0
  - calendar: 4.6.7
  - checksum: 1.2.4
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.11.0
  - contacts: 5.5.3
  - contactsinteraction: 1.9.0
  - dashboard: 7.8.0
  - dav: 1.29.1
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.18.0
  - federation: 1.18.0
  - files: 2.0.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 2.9.0
  - files_reminders: 1.1.0
  - files_sharing: 1.20.0
  - files_trashbin: 1.18.0
  - files_versions: 1.21.0
  - firstrunwizard: 2.17.0
  - keeweb: 0.6.18
  - logreader: 2.13.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.16.0
  - music: 1.11.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 1.17.0
  - notifications: 2.16.0
  - notify_push: 0.6.10
  - oauth2: 1.16.3
  - password_policy: 1.18.0
  - privacy: 1.12.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.18.0
  - quota_warning: 1.19.0
  - related_resources: 1.3.0
  - richdocuments: 8.3.4
  - serverinfo: 1.18.0
  - settings: 1.10.1
  - sharebymail: 1.18.0
  - socialsharing_email: 3.1.0
  - spreed: 18.0.7
  - support: 1.11.1
  - tasks: 0.15.0
  - text: 3.9.1
  - theming: 2.3.0
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.17.0
  - updatenotification: 1.18.0
  - user_status: 1.8.1
  - viewer: 2.2.0
  - weather_status: 1.8.0
  - workflowengine: 2.10.0
Disabled:
  - admin_audit: 1.18.0
  - circles: 28.0.0 (installed 28.0.0-dev)
  - comments: 1.18.0 (installed 1.18.0)
  - encryption: 2.16.0
  - files_external: 1.20.0
  - journal: 0.0.4 (installed 0.0.4)
  - photos: 2.4.0 (installed 2.4.0)
  - recommendations: 2.0.0 (installed 2.0.0)
  - survey_client: 1.16.0 (installed 1.16.0)
  - suspicious_login: 6.0.0
  - systemtags: 1.18.0 (installed 1.18.0)
  - twofactor_totp: 10.0.0-beta.2
  - user_ldap: 1.19.0

Nextcloud Signing status

No response

Nextcloud Logs

No response

Additional info

As you can see, the 14 april birthday should appear in "upcoming events", but it's not.

[GreyXor]

Hello @joshtrichards,
are you sure that this is related to calendar and not Dashboard itself ?

[joshtrichards]

The dashboard widget for upcoming events is provided by the Calendar app: https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/tree/main/lib/Dashboard

[GreyXor]

Same bug as #5592

[kesselb]

Thanks for your bug report 👍

I've worked on two patches, which are also scheduled for the upcoming releases of Nextcloud 28 (2024-05-23) and Nextcloud 29 (2024-05-23), to address some issues regarding the upcoming events widget.

1. Bring back events from subscribed calendars: Expose subscription calendars server#44752

2. Fix an issue with reoccurrence: CalDAV fix search with limit and time range server#45222

The birthday calendar uses reoccurrence and therefore, I think the second patch could also help for your case.

Do you happen to remember if the widget showed the birthdays for the first seven of your contacts (ordered by their birthdate)? E.g You have 7 contacts with birthday in Jan, and another one in Feb. Those with birthday in Jan should work the others not.

Thank you and stay tuned!

[GreyXor]

@kesselb, thanks!
From what I remember, no birthdays at all were displayed in the dashboard widget. I can try anything on my instance if you want. AMA 👍