RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] Palm synchro

[Brian Johnson]

1. I have successfully used the windows hotsync software from Palm (came
with my PDA) to do a network hotsync to Coldsync running on a Linux box
2. If you have phpgroupware providing the groupware calendar solution and
Palm sync conduits do you still need Outlook (I'm doing the conduits to
completely abandon Outlook in favour of a phpgw solution)



PS to the phpgw developers - please, please, please, separate the company
info for the adressbook into a separate table from the individual info (eg
one table for company that is linked to a second table that could then
contain multiple representatives from each company).  This is very important
to me and dramatically expands the potential use of phpgw as a project
tracking, time tracking, and accounting platform



-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Ben Cottrill
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:01 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Palm synchro


Hi,

One thing keeping us tied to microsoft solutions is the contingent of PHBs
who
need to sync their palm to a group calendar. (Switching their desktops to
linux is not an option...)

Has anyone worked on a windows solution?  Or even though about where to
begin?
It sounds from the recent discussion like the server side logic for palm
syncing will be hammered out soon, at which point it becomes a desktop
issue.

Would any of the following approaches (for windows users) be valid?

1. find a windows alternative to hotsync that can be hacked at- work from
there.  (Or is there a way to get coldsync to work on windows?)
2. TrueSync integration?  (looks proprietary, but Yahoo and Excite calendars
uses it)
3. Email items created in the group calendars to recipients in the
winmail.dat
format, and let outlook insert the stuff into members' calendars. -- I don't
think there is much documentation on this, but it is nice in that all the
users who are super dependent on outlook to pop up reminders and sync their
palms to outlook are able to take advantage of the phpgw goodness.
4.  Plugin for MS outlook that connects to phpgw via xmlrpc or syncml?
Users
can then sync their palms in outlook and the plugins would magically zap
data
back and forth to the phpgw server.

I don't know enough about MS outlook to know whether any of these are
viable,
but I do know that the end result would make phpgw a very attractive
alternative to small companies that would rather not spend $10K+ in
exchanges
licenses.

Any thoughts?
Ben





On Monday 15 April 2002 12:32 pm, Brian Johnson wrote:
> I have conduits for the memos, todo, datebook, and addressbook ready for
> beta testing
>
> They are written in Perl and use Coldsync as the transfer program
>
> Are you interested in testing them?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Jean-Eric
> Cuendet
 Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 2:46 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Phpgroupware-developers] Palm synchro
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm developing a Palm synchro util that uses Coldsync, in Perl.
> Is there a way to store the PalmID in phpGW for
> Contacts/Calendar/Notes/TODO?
> And is it possible to have the lastModification time?
> Thanks.
> -jec

--
Ben Cottrill
BIOMEC Inc.
address@hidden
216-937-2800 x243

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