On 12/14/00 10:09 PM, "Ken Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Entourage for about two weeks now, and I really like it. I'm
> now trying to get my Palm cleaned up (too long syncing with Outlook on
> Windows machines), and I am discovering some shortcomings that I am hoping
> can be addressed.
>
> The largest shortcoming I've seen is the apparent limit of what fields in
> Entourage that I can have synched to the Custom fields of the Address book.
> I've been keeping the following information in the Palm:
> Custom 1: Spouse Name
> Custom 2: All contact birthdays
> Custom 3: Web page
> Custom 4: Anniversary
>
> Out of these, the only one that I can sync with Entourage is Anniversary.
> Because of the way I do birthdays (everyone's birthday in field, i.e.: John
> 1/1/66 Jane 2/2/77 Jackie 3/3/88, with a carriage return between each), I
> cannot use the normal birthday field in Entourage. For the other two fields,
> the data is there, but the conduit will not allow me to choose those data
> fields.
Hmm, I never thought anyone would do that... however, there are real
problems trying to map data from the palm and back... needless to say, and
I've said this many times, the real solution is for Palm to allow for
extensibility in the address book.
> I also appear to be having problems with synching categories. I created a
> couple of categories in my Address Book in Entourage, but the matching Palm
> entries are all Unfiled.
There is documentation about this on MacTopia. Basically you need to create
all the categories on the Palm. You don't have to assign records to those
categories on the Palm though. We map same named categories from the Palm to
Entourage.
> Last problem is that my Notes don't appear to be synching at all. Is there a
> way to see if there is an error occurring?
Check the Palm hotsync log. How many notes do you have?
-Omar
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Program Manager - Entourage:mac - Macintosh Business Unit
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