Then Palm came around with a work around because for some reason I believe
that it used to work on the Palm Desktop Mac just fine.
Jeff
on 2/6/01 12:37 PM, Joseph Linaschke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm brand new to the list, so apologies in advance if I'm stating obvious or
> known info. But it would seem not from this thread I'm reading on my first
> digest...
>
> I discovered this problem and asked Microsoft support junkies at MacWorld in
> SF last month about this, and they confirmed that it's an issue that needs
> to be addressed.
>
> If you create a multi-day event in Entourage, it will sync as a single day
> event on the Palm. This is because Palm's datebook doesn't support multi day
> events.
>
> What Palm's datebook DOES support is repeating events. So, if you want to
> create a 'banner' on Entourage that shows up as a 'banner' on the Palm, you
> have to create the event as a single day, repeating event. It will show up
> as a banner in Entourage (actually a string of repeating non-timed events,
> which looks like a banner but isn't). It's the same thing as if you created
> a multi-day event on the Palm (which is actually a single day repeating
> event) and synced back to the desktop.
>
> Yes, this sucks. In a big way. Hopefully Microsoft is hard at work on this
> one! I can understand that it's a limitation in the Palm software, however
> there should be something in the sync that can convert consecutive repeating
> events into multi-day events, and vice-versa.
>
> If this is incorrect info in anyway, please let me know... but this is what
> I was told at MacWorld.
>
> As for my own string of Entourage/Palm problems, I'll go back to lurking for
> a spell before spewing forth ;-)
>
> ta,
> -Joseph
>
>> I have also had this problem and posted it here a couple of weeks ago. So
>> far I've found no solution. It seemed to work before, but somehow in the
>> last month something changed. I'm using Mac OS 9.1 and a Palm IIIxe with
>> Palm OS software v. 3.5.0.
>>
>> I have found that sometimes I am able to create a multiple day event on the
>> Palm which will show up as a banner in Entourage, but not always. I can no
>> longer create a banner in Entourage and have it show up as anything other
>> than on the first day on the Palm. If I try to modify that event on the
>> Palm to make it repeating, it creates multiple banners in Entourage starting
>> on successive days. The information is evidently (maybe?) somehow embedded
>> in what is going from Entourage to the Palm but it is not showing up on the
>> Palm.
>>
>> This is clearly a bug, and a serious one.
>
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