[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Google Calendar syncing in 5.1.1.

[Glenn Proctor]

Hi

I've been looking forward to being able to sync my Google Calendar,
which is now my primary calendar, with my Palm. I've done some brief
experiments with the new version and have found that it works much
better than before, but still isn't quite perfect.

My setup:

 - I have several calendars in Google Calendar.
  - I subscribe to each of them (via the .ics URL) in iCal
  - I sync my Treo 650 with iCal using MS

The good:

  - Events are transferred from Google -> Palm
 - Different Google Calendars get assigned to separate Palm categories
 - The "Where" field in Google is translated to the Location field on the Palm
 - The "Description" field in Google is transferred to the Palm note field

The bad:

  - (big one) Multi-day events in Google look OK in iCal but don't
seem to sync to the Palm at all. This is unfortunate as I use these
quite a lot. I understand though that this is difficult as I don't
think the Palm DateBk natively supports multi-day events.

  - (smaller) Exceptions to repeating events in Google seem to be
ignored by iCal and hence the deleted exceptions still appear in iCal
and Google. I don't think this is anything MS can solve though as it
looks like a wrinkle in the interaction between Google and iCal.

Anyway thanks to the MS guys for implementing this, and I hope we can
see some translation of multi-day events in future (presumably via
some sort of repeating event on the Palm).

Regards

Glenn.