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

[Steve Grandi]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Scott Gruby wrote:

>
> On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Glenn Proctor wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> 
>
> Actually, it isn't DateBk that doesn't support it, it is the entire datebook 
> mechanism on the devices. There isn't anything we can do about it. What we 
> recommend is that you get in the habit of creating single day events that 
> repeat for several days; these will sync fine.
>
>> 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).
>
> We did investigate this, but what you're talking about would require us to 
> modify the event before sending it to the handheld and then when it comes 
> back from the handheld, we'd have no idea what to do since it wouldn't match 
> the original event. Furthermore, if you did a slow sync, the events wouldn't 
> match up.
>

Yet your competitors in the PC space manage to get this right:  When I 
used to sync my Palm with Outlook using Chapura Pocket Mirror. multi-day 
events in Outlook were synched to repeating all-day events on the Palm.  I 
understand the problems you mention, but this is a feature I would 
gladly pay money for!

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