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

[Miguel Iglésias Marques]

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Hi,

But if the gCals are subscriptions doesn't it mean that you can't  
edit them on your Palm (or iCal, for that matter)?
How do your resolve these issues?

Cheers,

On 7 Sep 2006, at 22:43, Glenn Proctor wrote:

> 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.
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Miguel Iglesias Marques
email: iglesias at rnl.ist.utl.pt

Equipa de Administração de Sistemas
Rede das Novas Licenciaturas (RNL)
Instituto Superior Técnico


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