David,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I append a message I got today from the developer of Datebk4 (and Datebk+ on
the Visor handhelds) concerning category support. He seems to indicate that
it is actually <there> in the standard Datebk app, just not implemented, and
that several other conduit makers have chosen to add support for appointment
categories.
Would Microsoft at least take a look at this? I'd sure appreciate it, and so
would every Datebk4 user, or Visor users if Handspring listens to CESD.
Allen
Here's the message from C. E. Steuart Dewar:
>> I stand corrected. I just checked it out. An appointment, entered in
>> Category "Personal" on the Visor, shows up with no category assigned in
>> Entourage. I'm sure the reverse must also be true, although
>> Entourage/Datebk4 syncs task and contact categories just fine; I've
> verified
>> that. I believe it transfers categories for memos as well (not 100% sure).
>>
>> Why does it NOT transfer category for appointments?
>
> Because the built-in datebook application on the Palm does not support
> categories. That is the ONLY reason. Categories are an integral feature of
> ALL Palm OS databases regardless of whether or not an application chooses to
> provide an interface for their selection. In fact the built-in datebook
> application does initialize the category names for the Datebook database to
> null values and is always careful to select ALL categories for all
> operations (rather than assuming that everything will be in the UNFILED
> category). It was those two facts that convinced me that it would be 100%
> safe to implement categories in DateBk3/4 without affecting any other
> applications.
>
> So theory it should be very trivial for a company to provide category
> support for the datebook database if they are currently providing that same
> support for the ToDo, Addr and Memo databases and both Chapura and DataViz
> agreed it was a no-brainer to do it as it was so little effort. But I've
> never been able to get Intellisync to add that support.
>
> Datebook+ on the Visor DOES include all the category-handling code from
> DateBk3 - I just didn't provide an interface to it in Datebook+ per
> Handspring's request, but it would presumably be extraordinarily simple for
> Handspring to add that support back in to Datebook+ if they choose to. I'm
> rather hoping they would do that as it might then compell all the remaining
> conduit writers to add that support!!
>
> Cheers!
> CESD, Pimlico Software, Inc.
> ==========================================
On or near 6/13/01 12:12 PM, David Cortright at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> Only the built in Palm apps are supported by Entourage sync, not third party
> apps.
>
>> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:55:28 -0700
>> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Sync of appointment categories
>>
>> An appointment, entered in Category "Personal" on my Visor in Datebk4, shows
>> up with no category assigned in Entourage. I'm sure the reverse must also be
>> true, although Entourage/Datebk4 syncs task and contact categories just
>> fine; I've verified that. I believe it transfers categories for memos as
>> well (not 100% sure).
>>
>> Why does it NOT transfer category for appointments? (Datebk4 has the same
>> categories for appointments as Entourage, or at least a subset of
>> Entourage's list. That is, every category for appointments on my Visor also
>> exists in Entourage.
>>
>>
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