Not sure who is writing the Palm iSync conduit, or how it would even work, since not everything will be sync, for instance, notes.
-Omar On 7/26/02 4:45 AM, "Rob Buckley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My journalistic instincts have spurred me to do a little investigation. Not > that I use them any more, but categories are apparently supported natively by > Palm's Date Book application. Here's Pimlico Software's statement on the > subject (from the DateBk5 FAQ): > > "DateBk5 uses the IDENTICAL Databases to the built-in Todo and Datebook > applications, so BY DEFINITION it is 100% compatible with any desktop or > server application that properly synch's with the standard Datebook and Todo > Databases in the Palm Organizer... Categories are a STANDARD feature of ALL > Palm OS database, irregardless of whether the associated application chooses > to make use of them or not... > > "There are advanced features in DateBk5, such as categories, timezones, alarms > on ToDo's and appointments spanning midnight which are typically NOT supported > on the desktop either because the desktop lacks that functionality, or because > the conduit does not know how to map the functionality. We were pleased to see > that both Chapura and DataViz have released versions of their conduits which > support DateBk5 categories with MS Outlook and hope to encourage other conduit > writers to provide similar functionality. DateBk5 categories are also > supported by GroupSync." > > Just for the record, apart from the conduits implied above (PocketMirror and > Desktop to Go on Windows), I've noticed on the Mac the following conduits also > sync Date Book categories with desktop applications: Now Up-to-Date's conduit, > Palm Desktop 4.0's conduit, Chronos Group Organizer/Personal Organizer's > conduit, and QueueSync (I think. I only used it a couple of times). > > As far as I can see, the list of conduits for synchronising PIMs with Palm's > Date Book that don't use categories consists of... Entourage's conduit. > > So assuming Pimlico is to be believed on the subject, and given that Palm's > own application supports categories (and Palm has little incentive to go out > of its way to develop workrounds to its own APIs so that third-party Palm OS > software can synchronise properly with its free _Macintosh_ software), I guess > there is a conduit API somewhere that allows category synchronisation. It's > just a question of finding it. > > We'll have to see what iSync gets up to when it comes out, but that poor old > Entourage conduit must be feeling awful lonely by itself right now... > > Rob -- 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/>
