Omar, I do not believe you are correct that it is only possible to support categories by writing specific data to the notes field of the calendar. It is also possible to store this information within the calendar data itself. Datebk 4/5 does not come with a conduit. If calendar data is going to be synced to the Palm, it will be through whatever conduit (3rd party or Palm default) that the user has installed. It is possible with Palm Desktop, NUD, Organizer, and perhaps other OS X applications, to create a calendar event on the desktop with category information. That category information is NOT stored in the note field of the calendar event when created on the desktop. When the user syncs with the Palm, that category information is then conveyed to Datebk 4/5. How would this be possible if it were not stored within a data field in the actual calendar event? Yes, Datebk 4/5 does then take that info and create a @@@@ record in the note field, but not because it needed to just to record category information.
We all could spend much time discussing the limitations of the built-in Date Book application on the Palm, but I do not see that as the real issue. The real issue is that many Entourage X users also rely on Datebk on the Palm, and we cannot get category support while most, if not all, other OS X date book applications do provide this support. Why does it always appear so difficult to get MS to develop features that work with 3rd party applications, especially a 3rd party application that has perhaps over a million users total? On 7/16/02 12:33 AM, "Omar Shahine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually that is not entirely correct (at least not to my recollection). And > categories weren't synchronized under Entourage 2001. > > The Palm Calendar Event database doesn't support categories (at least that > is what I found when I looked into supporting Date Book Categories). If it > did, life would be good. But since the Palm OS doesn't know about > "extensibility" Palm may get around to adding this feature (as well as > multiple address support and > 5 phone numbers) in the next 5 years of their > evolution. > > The way that other applications accomplish this is by writing specific data > to the notes field of the calendar (at leas that is what they say on the web > site for the folks that made DB5). > > -Omar > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Entourage Mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:28 PM > Subject: Catagories in date book > > >> This is not entirely correct. The Palm database for calendar events does >> support categories, and the categories were synchronized under previous >> versions of the Conduits. The Date-book application in the Palm does not >> display this information, however. >> -- >> Eric Hildum >> >>> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:21:15 -0700 >>> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: July 15 conduit release >>> >>> On or near 7/15/02 11:50 AM, Greg Jones at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >>> >>>> It doesn't support categories in the calendar (to/from Datebk5), but >>>> otherwise looks very good. Nice job! >>> >>> Technically speaking, Palm does not support categories for the calendar >>> either. That's a special feature of Datebk4/5, which is third-party >>> software. >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> archives: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> >> old-archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> >> > -- "In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king." -Timoteo in Machiavelli's The Mandrake Root -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
