[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Syncing with iCal

[franco]

Hi Ken,

> 
> The issue here is that iCal's usage of the "status" field is different
> than the PPC usage, so the status field choices on each side don't map
> well to the other. iCal uses the status to relate that particular event
> (e.g. cancelled, confirmed, tentative) and the PPC use the status to
> track the availability of the person or calendar as a whole (e.g. Busy,
> Free, Out of the office). We've discussed matching the fields as best
> as we can, but other than the field "tentative" there aren't very good
> choices that would make sense to most users.
> 
> So the Missing Sync for Pocket PC transfers all appointments from iCal
> to the PPC as busy. New items created on the PPC sync as "none" in
> iCal. However, one good thing to note is that if you set the status on
> the PPC and sync, we don't change the status on the handheld.

I understand that you may be writing a conduit to work with Entourage as
well. Do you think this will be an issue with Entourage? Again, the other
product does not sync these fields because, apparently, they do not have
access to them (I am led to believe that MS does not give access to this
field from the API).

Will this be the case for your software?

to let yourself, and everybody else on this list know, I am a frustrated
PocketMac 3.0 user. I only purchased their software because of the
Entourage conduit. I've had lots of problems with it. I wish I had purchased
MissingSync, but this is the decisions in life. Only one thing swayed me to
PM. 

To give a further example of why the status matching is important. I keep
info such as my wife's appointments in my diary. They are always set to
"free" (as well as "need to be aware" of events). PM transfers everything to
the mac as "busy". If I use Office Reminders I get alarms..... If I have to
go & reset the fields as soon as I've transferred the appt, I may as well
just put it in manually & not be bothered with sync software. Vice versa to
the PPC. All "free" appts become "busy" on the PPC.

Just a whole dilemma to me. Perhaps I should buy a soon to not-also-sync
Palm :-)

Thanks for your info anyhow!

- franco.