To the developers: Guys, I use DATEBK4 on my Visor, and I've encountered the duplication problem brought up in the following exchange between C.E. Steuart Dewar (the developer of Datebk4) and an Entourage user. Is there any encouraging word I might pass back to the Datebk4 list on this problem? -- Add me to Palm/Visor: http://signature.coola.com/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson A Mac family since 1984 <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/> The first message: > The first thing I did was to use colour for my categories for > existing appointments. However, when I synched, I was left with > duplicate entries in the Entourage Calendar. Translation: sounds like a silly bug in the Entourage conduit - it's not noticing that just the note field of an event was changed. When you coded the existing item for a color, DateBk4 wrote a tag into the note field. Any competently-written conduit will of course recognize the event as changed and propagate the change to the desktop. The Entourage conduit is so weak though that it fails even this most elementary of synchronization tests and thinks it's a new event and so copies it to the desktop - resulting in duplication. I suggest to confirm this you take an existing appointment and just make a 1-character change in the note field and see if that duplicates. If not, then it's even more bizarre as it indicates that Entourage is not reliably handling note fields. Right now based on support emails I get, Entourage has one of the poorest written conduits of any PIM. Hopefully, they'll release an update that at least works at an acceptable level of reliability. Real problem is that without tracking the unique ID's (as is done in the Palm Conduit), conduits are left to use heuristics for the synchronization, and some programmers new to this problem don't know them and re-invent the wheel (badly). Cheers! CESD, Pimlico Software, Inc. ========================================== --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "C. E. Steuart Dewar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Translation: sounds like a silly bug in the Entourage conduit - Spot on - see below. > I suggest to confirm this you take an existing appointment and just make a > 1-character change in the note field and see if that duplicates. It did. :-( I don't really want to go back to the Palm Desktop because of the way Entourage is so tightly integrated into Office 2001. But I may have to!!! Many thanks. Richard USEFUL LINKS AND WEBPAGES FOR PIMLICODATEBK ------------------------------------------- Post a message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages (view/search): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pimlicodatebk/messages Pimlico: http://www.PimlicoSoftware.com DateBk4 FAQ: http://www.PimlicoSoftware.com/datebk4faq.htm DateBk Cookbook: http://how.to/datebk-cookbook Neither Pimlico, the developer, nor the list owner is responsible for content. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
