On 9/9/02 3:17 PM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/9/02 1:20 PM, Jan Martel deftly typed out: > >> 2. - Manually enter the events on the Palm as repeating events and put an >> "&" into the title so I could then delete them when they sync'ed to 'rage. >> Someone (don't remember who, but you're a genius :-)) suggested that this >> might not work because after I deleted in 'rage, they'd be deleted from the >> Palm next time I sync'd. In an attempt to avoid that, I first classified >> them as "no sync" (I have the conduit set to sync all but the "no sync" >> category, which works for the multi-day events as well as for email only >> contacts) and then deleted them. But they got deleted from the Palm next >> time I sync'd anyway. I'm certainly not willing to enter all my multi-day >> events manually every time I sync. And I really do not want the 'rage >> calendar to have them as repeating daily events. Can anyone think of a way >> around this? > > That was me that suggested the work-around wouldn't work. My guess is that > when you categorize a calendar event as "no sync" and then tell the conduit > to ignore that category, that the Palm can't see the event in the Entourage > calendar at all and assumes it was deleted and so dutifully deletes its own > copy of the event. I think there are only two ways for this to get > addressed: > > 1. Microsoft rewrites their conduit to translate multi-day spanning events > to multi-day repeating events and back again on the fly during sync with a > Palm handeld. > > 2. Palm gives the Palm OS the ability to display multi-day spanning events > in the datebook app. > > Sadly, I think that neither will happen. The MBU attitude as far as I can > tell in regards to Palm has been "Palm doesn't do it right, so don't > complain to us." And I'm sure Palm is saying "Every other app that synchs > with our datebook app handles it properly, what's MS's problem?". And even > if neither case is true, the MBU has expended a lot of time on the conduit > now and I'm sure they need to put the programming man-power elsewhere at > this point and Palm could probably care less about the relatively minor > issue suffered by the fraction of the very small Mac market that uses > Entourage to synch with their handheld OS. While this is a very good characterization, the MBU attitude, probably MS attitude, also includes "although we need to release upgrades on schedule, we try to keep getting better". So I'd say there's a good chance that they might do it that way next time but that next time won't be for a while now. -- Paul Berkowitz -- 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/>
