[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Various things in MS5

[Brian M. Criscuolo]

Matthew, I'll try to hit some of the things you ask about below:

On Nov 10, 2005, at 6:03 AM, Wyneken Matthew wrote:

> I've been impressed with the feedback that the folks at Mark/Space  
> provide on this list. All in all MS5 looks very promising, but I  
> did want to report a few problems I've been having that really need  
> to be addressed before I can be completely satisfied with the program.
>
> - I reassigned a number of events on my Palm to a single category.  
> After resyncing, the events showed up in iCal in different  
> calendars, some matching the changes I made on the Palm, others  
> not. What is happening here? Is this a bug? If not, what  
> circumstances cause this to happen?
>

Seems like a bug. When you say that they showed up in different  
calendars, were they in neither the original calendar nor the new one?

> - It looks to me like sometimes when I delete an event on the Palm,  
> it doesn't get deleted in iCal during a resync. I don't know if  
> this is always the case or just occasionally.
>

I haven't been able to reproduce this.

> - I think it would be nice if the list of calendars in iCal would  
> match exactly the list of event and ToDo categories on the Palm.  
> For example, it looks to me like empty categories on the Palm are  
> not transferred to iCal. To my mind, either a matching calendar  
> should be created in iCal, or the category should be deleted on the  
> Palm.
>

Yes, we would like to see that. As Scott Gruby wrote in response to  
another email, at the time the conduit was written Apple's  
documentation said that 3rd parties should not create calendars -  
that it was reserved for iCal. We're revisiting the issue, as that  
information may be incorrect.

> - In general it looks like there are certain rules as to what sorts  
> of changes on both sides are transferred to the other side and what  
> sorts are not. It would be nice to have some sort of description as  
> to what these rules are. For example (I don't know if these are  
> true or not):
>
> 	- For every category used on the Palm, a matching calendar must  
> exist in iCal or the event/ToDo will be put in the "Unfiled" calendar

No - only for categories that contain records being synchronized.

> 	- When an iCal item is assigned to a brand new calendar, an  
> appropriate category is created on the Palm. (Is this true?)

Yes.

> 	- What happens on the Palm when there is a non-used calendar? What  
> happens in iCal when there is a non-used Palm category? Are  
> categories/calendars deleted/created in these cases?

If there is a non-used category on the Palm it will be deleted after  
synchronization. The list of categories on the Palm is equal to the  
list of calendars that have records being synchronized, plus Unfiled.  
We neither create nor delete iCal calendars.

> 	- When there are more than 15 calendars in iCal, what happens on  
> the Palm?

Items for calendar 16-> get assigned to Unfiled.

> 	- Deleting an item in iCal will/will not delete the item on the  
> Palm. If not deleted, under what circumstances?

If that is happening, that is a bug. Make sure that the calendar is  
being synchronized AND that the date range setting includes that item.

> 	- Deleting an item on the Palm will/will not delete the item in  
> iCal. If not deleted, under what circumstances?

Same as above.

> 	- Creating an item in iCal or on the Palm will create the same  
> item on the other side. If this is not the case, under what  
> circumstances?

You're filtering by calendar/date range.

> 	- Are there any potential problems with repeating events/ToDos?
>

Haven't seen any.

> - Are there any potential gotchas when working with repeating  
> events or ToDos?
>

iCal does not support repeating todos, although the underlying sync  
engine does. The Palm can generate a repeating todo, and we push that  
information into the sync engine, as another PIM may want to use it.

b

> Thanks for you help!
>
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> Matthew Wyneken
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Brian M. Criscuolo
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Mark/Space, Inc.
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