[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Re: Birthdays & Anniversary Syncing with Entourage SP2 Update

[Ken Freeman]

The problem with Birthdays and anniversaries is that with SP2 when we ask
the Entoruage SDK for the record information, the text passed to us in the
birthday and anniversary fields of a contact is seemingly random text,
rather than the text the user entered in Entourage. We sync the text that
was given to us just fine, but the data given us is flat out wrong. I don't
believe it matters how the birthday data was entered.

Is what Trent is doing, is NOT using the birthday field in the contact, but
just creating a calendar event on the day of one's birthday. That should
continue to work just fine.

Ken


On 10/17/05 2:27 PM, "s.strippoli" <sstrippoli at mac.com> wrote:

> - - -  RE-POSTING:  Not Certain if Original Was Properly Transmitted
> 
>   Ken -
> 
> In light of Trent's 10-14 posting:
> I would like to clarify & confirm the intent of your earlier post about the
>   discovered new bug related to the Entourage SP2 update and Birthdays.
> It might be helpful if we noted more specificity.
> 
> Were you reporting that Entourage mishandles recurring Birthday listings:
>    a)  when entered in Entourage's AddressBook's  Birthday field for a
> specific Contact
>    b)  when entered as a Recurring Calendar event (not linked to a Contact)
>    c)  or for both
>    d)  or some other combination
> 
> Thanks for helping us better understand the identified concern.
> 
>   sabino
> 
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> 
> On Friday, October 14, 2005, at 10:43AM, Trent Wagner <trent at sickchilly.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've been reading these threads and wondering why I don't have this problem.
>> I just realized that I do not enter birthdays on the contact cards
>> themselves. I just set up recurring events on the calendar just like any
>> other appointment. I did this because it's easier to transfer between
>> programs and syncs more reliably between different programs and devices.
>> 
>> Often times, using "custom" fields on contacts is more trouble than it's
>> worth when you're trying to be as compatible and as complete as possible
>> when syncing amongst multiple programs, devices, and platforms.
>> 
>> Just FYI, if my solution will work for anyone else in light of this bug.
>> 
>> -T
>> 
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