[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: Email entries get synced as phone numbers

[Steve Skipworth]

In the past, I used two custom fields on the Palm set to Email Work &  
Email Home.  However, since switching away from the Palm desktop this  
obviously no longer works.  I would like to see a feature in future  
versions of MS, where the mapping of the fields between the Mac and  
the Palm could be customized by the user.  Perhaps via a xml file or  
some other text file.  I realize that for most users, you would have  
to have a default version for simplicity, however, this would be a  
great help for issues like this and maybe even with the Garmin  
waypoints.


> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:01:37 -0500
> From: "Brian M. Criscuolo" <bcriscuolo at markspace.com>
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> This is a decision that we made a while ago that we may want to  
> revisit.
>
> There is no "email" field on the Palm - they are phone numbers (at
> least according to the database structure). The ONLY reason you can
> send email directly from the app is because that field has an E-mail
> label. The application *should* look at the data, but who knows if
> that change will ever be made.
>
> To preserve data integrity, we choose to map Address Book labels as-
> is. Meaning that if it is "work" in Address Book, it will be "Work"
> on your device.
>
> What is better? Maintaining the data as entered on the desktop, or
> changing the device label to E-mail, which at some point would
> propagate back to the desktop? Hard to answer.
>
> I'll take a look at the custom label mapping to see why your test
> didn't work.
>
> b
>
> On Nov 26, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Alexander Wasmuth wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the email addresses in iCal (work or home) are not synced to my
>> Palm as email addresses but as phone numbers (again work or home).
>> As a result I can't directly send email from the contact app
>> because there are only phone entries available.
>>
>> I tried to relabel the entries in iCal to E-Mail or E-mail (as they
>> are labled this way on the Palm), alas without success, they still
>> show up as phone numbers on the Palm.
>>
>> MS 5.02, OS X 10.4, Palm TX
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alex