> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 20:08:42 -0700 > Subject: Re: 2004: Calendar/Task category Palm Hotsync irregularity > > On 5/15/04 7:59 PM, "W Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Finally decided to do the test myself and found that the Hotsync conduit for >> Entourage 2004 would correctly synchronize the category settings for >> Task/To-do entries, but not for calendar entries. >> >> I created entries both on the Palm (DateBk5) as well as within Entourage >> prior to a hotsync. The result was that none of the transferred calendar >> entries had the correct category setting, while all the task/to-dos had. >> >> This is rather odd and I wondered what could be the reason. Why the >> irregular support? > > You need to ask Palm. They're the ones who don't provide categories for > calendar events in Palm OS 4.x. They DO provide categories for todos, so > that's why category syncing works for tasks/todos (nothing to do with > DateBk5). >
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. -- 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/>
