[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Entourage and Tungsten T3

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 2/8/05 10:55 AM, "Michael Griffith" <m.griffith at mary.acu.edu.au> wrote:

> Microsoft has specifically said that while there is some limited
> synchronization possible between Entourage and the "newer" palms, Palm OS,
> after 5.2 changed its category names thus making a clean sync impossible.
> This is also my experience after carefully following Microsoft's
> suggestions. 
> In the face of this I am trying to think my way into a work around. I have
> purchased Missing-sync, I have also -some time ago- purchased "Sync
> Entourage Address Book" and "Sync Entourage Ical". I also have "iSync" on
> board. 
> Would the following process work:
> Using iSync: sync Entourage with Apple's "Ical" and "Address Book"
> - at the same time use Missing Sync's separate Memo programme to sync With
> Entourage's memos (this is the big question - how to get memo's from the
> palm onto the desktop)
> Then use "Sync Entourage Ical and Sync Entourage Address book to complete
> the cycle. 

The first part works this way: you use the two "Sync Entourage Address Book"
and "Sync Entourage Ical" scripts (I'm the one who makes those) to sync
Entourage's contacts, calendar events and tasks with Address Book and iCal.
Then you could use iSync to sync the Apple apps to the Palm. Don't forget
that there are limitations in iCal's AppleScript implementation such that
todo notes are not scriptable, so if you make notes in Entourage tasks they
won't make it over. That may matter less to you than the other features you
will get - I don't know.

Missing Sync's MemoPad is a separate application, nothing to do with
Entourage. It's not scriptable, so there's no way I'd know to sync from it
to Entourage. Maybe Mark/Space might make it scriptable some day, but I
doubt it's worth their trouble. There's no way for them or anyone else, yet,
to get into Entourage except via AppleScript - although there might be a way
for someone to get at the data produced by the Entourage conduit.

The only way you could get everything would be very messy: you'd have to
constantly be uninstalling and re-installing the Entourage conduit and iSync
conduit, synching contacts, events and maybe tasks via the scripts and iSync
conduit, and notes only (maybe re-doing tasks one-way) via the Entourage
conduit. I really wouldn't recommend this - too much trouble and likely to
go wrong.
> 
> Despite having a weary head after all this syncing would this produce a
> clean sync between Entourage and Palm OS 5.2?

I doubt it. Probably after Tiger and an Entourage update there will be more,
better options.


-- 
Paul Berkowitz